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ethnolinguistic

ethnolinguistic adjective: of or pertaining to ethnolinguistics.

Adjective

ethnolinguistic (not comparable)

  1. 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...
  2. 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

ethnolinguistic meaning in Tagalog

ethnolinguistic in Tagalog

ethnolinguistic
etnolingguwistiko, etnolingguwistik

Origin of ethnolinguistic

From ethno- + linguistic.

Words formed from ethnolinguistic

Questions about ethnolinguistic

What does ethnolinguistic mean?
Ethnolinguistic means of or pertaining to ethnolinguistics.
What is ethnolinguistic in Tagalog?
Ethnolinguistic in Tagalog is etnolingguwistiko, etnolingguwistik. See Ethnolinguistic meaning in Tagalog.
What part of speech is ethnolinguistic?
Ethnolinguistic is an adjective.

Words near ethnolinguistic in the dictionary

  1. ethnol
  2. ethnolect
  3. ethnolectal
  4. ethnolects
  5. ethnolinguist
  6. ethnolinguistic
  7. ethnolinguistically
  8. ethnolinguistics
  9. ethnolinguists
  10. ethnologer
  11. ethnologers

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