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Definition of "ethnolinguistic" [ethnolinguistic]

  • Of or pertaining to ethnolinguistics. (adjective)

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Use "ethnolinguistic" in a sentence
  • "Which got me thinking out of the ethnolinguistic mode (I just like making Dragon NaturallySpeaking type "ethnolinguistic") and into a mode of more manufactured communities."
  • "However, the historian María de Los Angeles Romero Frizzi suggests that "the linguistic categorization is somewhat misleading" partly because "the majority of indigenous peoples in Oaxaca identify more closely with their village or their community than with their ethnolinguistic group.""
  • "Because individual towns and tribal groups lived in isolation from each other for long periods of time, the subsequent seclusion allowed sixteen ethnolinguistic groups to maintain their individual languages, customs and ancestral traditions intact well into the colonial era and - to some extent - to the present day."