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

It becomes, therefore, of importance to discover from what linguistic stock this term and its associated words are derived.

From Nagualism A Study in Native American Folk-lore and History by Daniel Garrison Brinton

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 Alfred Court Haddon

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 John Wesley Powell

The Arawaks have given their name to a linguistic stock of South America, the Arawakan, which includes many once powerful tribes.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" by Various

However, they are of a distinctly different linguistic stock, speaking a Tewa language brought from the Rio Grande, while the Hopi speak a dialect of the Shoshonean.

From The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi by Hattie Greene Lockett