Ethnolinguistic group

An ethnolinguistic group (or ethno-linguistic group) is one of the types of group identity that defines membership of an ethnic group. Members are unified by a common language (and possibly script).

Herodotus (484–425 BC) enumerated shared language, homoglōsson ("speaking the same language"), as one of the four pillars of ethnic identity.

Lists

• List of ethnolinguistic groups in Europe
• List of ethnolinguistic groups in Asia
• List of ethnolinguistic groups in Africa

See also

Linguistics
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Descriptive linguistics Anthropological Comparative Historical Etymology Graphetics Phonetics Sociolinguistics
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Linguistics portal

• First language
• Ethnoreligious group
• Nation state
• Race (human categorization)
• Regionalism (politics)

Sources

• 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. 
• Joshua A. Fishman; Ofelia García (2010). Handbook of Language and Ethnic Identity. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-537492-6. 
• 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. 

Further reading

• Lamy, Paul. "Language and ethnolinguistic identity: The bilingualism question." International Journal of the Sociology of Language 1979.20 (1979): 23-36.
• Sachdev, Itesh, and Richard Y. Bourhis. "Language and social identification." Social identity theory: Constructive and critical advances 211 (1990): 229.
• 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).
• Bourhis, Richard Y. "Language in ethnic interaction: A social psychological approach." Language and ethnic relations (1979): 117-141.