ethnolinguistn.
/ˌɛθnəʊˈlɪŋɡwɪst/, U.S. /ˌɛθnoʊˈlɪŋɡwᵻst/ A student of or specialist in ethnolinguistics.
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ethnolinguist1946
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ethnolinguist1946
metalinguist1951
1946 Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Linguistics 12 174/2 The ethno-linguist could employ collections of texts..to get a basis for comparative studies involving language, dialects, specific informants, and text types.
1957 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. 1956 xxvi. 13 It is the ethnolinguist who will have to bring the answer to the question of the social circumstances under which the learning of the second language occurs.
1997 E. White Farewell Symphony (1998) xi. 499 One of those ethnolinguists who can entirely map out an unknown tongue in just twenty days in the Bush.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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