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ethnolinguistic en · ADJ

Etymology

From ethno- + linguistic.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of or pertaining to ethnolinguistics.
    • The principle of ethnolinguistic democracy does not require that all languages be declared equally important and equally privileged in all functions... 1994, Joshua Fishman, “On the limits of ethnolinguistic democracy”, in Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Robert Phillipson, editors, Linguistic Human Rights: Overcoming Linguistic Discrimination, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 50:
  2. (not-comparable) Associated with a particular ethnicity and a particular variety of language.
    • Baker (1972) identified four varieties of Mauritian creole associated with different ethnolinguistic groups. 1989, John Holm, Pidgins and Creoles, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 398:

Deriveds

ethnolinguistically

Translations (5)

sv etnolingvistisk (ethnolinguistic) · tl etnolingguwistiko (ethnolinguistic) · ca etnolingüístic (ethnolinguistic) · es etnolingüístico (ethnolinguistic) · tl etnolingguwistik (ethnolinguistic)