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

Hano was peopled by a different linguistic stock from that of the other villages—a stock which belongs to the Rio Grande group.

From A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228 by Nichols, Henry Hobart

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

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

From The Flute of the Gods by Ryan, Marah Ellis

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 Brinton, Daniel Garrison

Shoshoni, the, 355, 367, 371 sq., and map, pp, 334-5 Shoshonian linguistic stock, the, 347, 369 Shrubsall, F. C., 121, 126, 450 n.

From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court