Meanings
adjectiveethnolinguistic (not comparable)
- not comparableOf 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 - not comparableanthropologyAssociated 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
Origin
Translations
Catalan etnolingüístic
- etnolingüísticethnolinguistic
Spanish etnolingüístico
- etnolingüísticoethnolinguistic
Swedish etnolingvistisk
- etnolingvistiskethnolinguistic
Tagalog etnolingguwistiko, etnolingguwistik
- etnolingguwistikoethnolinguistic
- etnolingguwistikethnolinguistic
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APA
ethnolinguistic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ethnolinguistic
MLA
“ethnolinguistic.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ethnolinguistic. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ethnolinguistic,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ethnolinguistic.
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