Ethnolinguistic group

An ethnolinguistic group (or ethno-linguistic group) is a group that is unified by both a common ethnicity and language.

A central concept in the linguistic study of ethnolinguistic groups is ethnolinguistic vitality.^[1] An ethnolinguistic group that lacks such vitality is unlikely to survive as a distinct entity. Factors that influence the ethnolinguistic vitality are demography, institutional control and status (including language planning factors).^[2]

See also

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

References

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.