Definition of ethnolinguistics in English:
ethnolinguistics
plural noun ˌɛθnəʊlɪŋˈɡwɪstɪksˌɛθnoʊlɪŋˈɡwɪstɪks
treated as singular The branch of linguistics concerned with the relations between linguistic and cultural behaviour.
Example sentencesExamples
- His interests include ethnolinguistics and language acquisition in bilingual children.
- The results of this project will contribute essentially to the study of ethnolinguistics and to the description of some endangered languages and dialects.
Derivatives
noun
For more than twenty-five years, his work as an ethnolinguist has focused on the preservation of Hopi language and culture.
Example sentencesExamples
- The question of how many fluent Maidu speakers remain is a touchy one, not least because many Maidu resent the notion that a white ethnolinguist may be the keeper of the linguistic flame.
- These paradigms will be of as much interest to philologists and ethnolinguists as they may be to ornithologists.
adjective
Liberia's sixteen ethnolinguistic groups, although characterized as tribes, have never constituted unified, historically continuous political entities.
Example sentencesExamples
- Thailand often is portrayed as a culturally homogeneous country, but there are approximately seventy-five distinct ethnolinguistic groups.
- Political tensions arising from this ethnolinguistic division have largely faded as the Swedish-speaking minority has declined in size and assimilated through marriage with Finnish speakers.
- Saturday school is an example of what parents can do to pass their language on to their children in lower ethnolinguistic vitality areas.
- Various ethnolinguistic groups, with varying degrees of political organization, divided the highlands between them, sometimes at war, sometimes at peace.
Definition of ethnolinguistics in US English:
ethnolinguistics
plural nounˌeTHnōliNGˈɡwistiksˌɛθnoʊlɪŋˈɡwɪstɪks
treated as singular The branch of linguistics concerned with the relations between linguistic and cultural behavior.
Example sentencesExamples
- His interests include ethnolinguistics and language acquisition in bilingual children.
- The results of this project will contribute essentially to the study of ethnolinguistics and to the description of some endangered languages and dialects.