meaning of linguistic group..
Social groups categorised on the basis of spoken and written language are called linguistic groups. The term ‘linguistic’ is derived from the word ‘language’. Any linguistic group is a group of related languages that have descended from a common ancestor which is called the proto-language of the family.
For example – Bengali and Assamese have Sanskrit as their proto-language while English and French have Roman as their proto-language.
For example – Bengali and Assamese have Sanskrit as their proto-language while English and French have Roman as their proto-language.