linguistic stock

American  

noun

1. a parent language and all its derived dialects and languages.

2. the people speaking any of these dialects or languages.

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Etymology

Origin of linguistic stock

First recorded in 1920–25

Example Sentences

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linguistic stock

Erie, the, 375, and map, pp. 334-5 Eshi-Kongo, the, 110, 112, 248 Eskimauan linguistic stock, the, 354 Eskimo, the, Alaskan, 343, 357 sq.,

From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court

No name shall be accepted for a linguistic family unless used to designate a tribe or group of tribes as a linguistic stock.

From Indian Linguistic Families Of America, North Of Mexico Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 1-142 by Powell, John Wesley

Satanow pleaded for the language of the Mishnah as forming part of the Hebrew linguistic stock, but the moment was not propitious to the reform of the prevailing literary style suggested by him.

From The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) by Slouschz, Nahum

Byron-Gordon G., 397 Caddo, the, 355 Caddoan linguistic stock, the, 355, 381 Cagayans, the, 247 California, Indians of, 368 sqq.

From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court

Yutah Ute, a Colorado tribe of the sone linguistic stock.

From The Flute of the Gods by Ryan, Marah Ellis