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

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Example Sentences

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linguistic stock

Although the latter are included in the same linguistic group with the Arikara, Pawnee, and others as mentioned above, they are regarded by some as constituting a distinct linguistic stock.

From Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan, and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi by David Ives Bushnell

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

From The Flute of the Gods by Marah Ellis Ryan

All the tribes of northwestern Luzon belong to the same linguistic stock which, in turn, is closely related to the other Philippine languages.

From The Tinguian Social, Religious, and Economic Life of a Philippine Tribe by Fay-Cooper Cole

Aramka, the, 73 Arapaho, the, 354, 370, 372, 374, and map, pp. 334-5 Araucanians, the, 409 sqq.; language, 412 Arawakan linguistic stock, 415 sq.

From Man, Past and Present by Alfred Court Haddon

Early in the seventeenth century the French missionaries met with various tribes of the Algonkian linguistic stock, as well as with bands or subtribes of the Ojibwa Indians.

From The Mide'wiwin or "Grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 143-300 by Walter James Hoffman

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