Ethnolinguistic group
An ethnolinguistic group (or ethno-linguistic group) is a group that is unified by both a common ethnicity and language. Most ethnic groups share a first language. However, "ethnolinguistic" is often used to emphasise that language is a major basis for the ethnic group, especially in regard to its neighbours.
A central concept in the linguistic study of ethnolinguistic groups is ethnolinguistic vitality, the ability of the group's language and ethnicity to sustain themselves. An ethnolinguistic group that lacks such vitality is unlikely to survive as a distinct entity. Factors that influence the ethnolinguistic vitality are demographics, institutional control and status (including language planning factors).
See also
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- First language
- Ethnolinguistics
- Ethnoreligious group
- Nation state
- Race (human classification)
- Regionalism (politics)
References
Further reading
- Bourhis, Richard Y. "Language in ethnic interaction: A social psychological approach." Language and ethnic relations (1979): 117–141.
- Giles, Howard, Richard Y. Bourhis, and Donald M. Taylor. "Towards a theory of language in ethnic group relations". Language, ethnicity and intergroup relations, 307348 (1977).
- Kamusella, Tomasz (2021). Words in Space and Time- Historical Atlas of Language Politics in Modern Central Europe (PDF). Central European University Press.
- Lamy, Paul (1979). "Language and Ethnolinguistic Identity: The Bilingualism Question". International Journal of the Sociology of Language. 1979 (20): 23–36. doi:10.1515/ijsl.1979.20.23. S2CID 143763214.
- John M. Levine; Michael A. Hogg (15 September 2009). Encyclopedia of Group Processes and Intergroup Relations. SAGE Publications. pp. 252–. ISBN 978-1-4522-6150-8.
- Diarmait Mac Giolla Chríost (2004). Language, Identity and Conflict: A Comparative Study of Language in Ethnic Conflict in Europe and Eurasia. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-51202-7.
- Sachdev, Itesh, and Richard Y. Bourhis. "Language and social identification". Social identity theory: Constructive and critical advances 211 (1990): 229.