They are a linguistic grouping, not an ethnic or cultural one.

When the Spanish arrived, they found the area inhabited by the Yelamu tribe, which belongs to a linguistic grouping later called the Ohlone.

Definitions such as Galla and Amhara refer to linguistic and cultural groupings rather than to blood-lines.

Langue d'oïl, the term itself, has been used in the singular since the 12th century to denote this ancient linguistic grouping as a whole.

The Gurage languages do not constitute a coherent linguistic grouping, rather, the term is both linguistic and cultural.

Languages that possess genetic ties with one another belong to the same linguistic grouping, known as a language family.

Some consider it a Paleo-Siberian language, although that is more a geographic than a linguistic grouping.

The Wappingers were one of the Algonquian peoples, a linguistic grouping which includes hundreds of tribes.

With its myriad religious, ethnic, linguistic and caste groupings, India faces a constant struggle for national integration.

By the time this migration was complete, around 250 BC, a few general cultural and linguistic groupings had emerged.