The school of linguistics that studies the relationship between a language and the culture of those who speak it, or between the language and psychology of a particular ethnic group. Ethnolinguistics emerged in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the USA in connection with extensive ethnographic research that was being carried out on Indian tribes of North and Central America. Initially, ethnolinguistics sought toobtain data from the history of the social relations of primitive by studying corresponding linguistic phenomena; this approach was taken by such scholars as L.H. Morgan,