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[Douglas G. Wilson]

 >I wonder if there are other groups besides "Hispanics," Arabs and Chinese who
are defined by their language/linguistic group rather than race, religion,
common culture, or nation.

Taking "Chinese" = "native speakers of Chinese languages/dialects"
('Mandarin'+Cantonese+Shanghainese+Min+Hakka+... speakers) as the model,
there are a number of these groups. [The Chinese languages/dialects are not
mutually comprehensible in general.]

"Arabs" (Saudis+Egyptians+Syrians+Moroccans+Iraqis+...) speak Arabic
'dialects' (not generally mutually comprehensible).

"Latins" (French+Spanish+Italians+Romanians+Argentines+...) speak Romance
'languages' (not generally mutually comprehensible).

"Slavs" (Russians+Poles+Czechs+...) ....

etc., etc.

Various members and various sub-groups of the various groups may have
various ideas about membership requirements and about whether they want to
be members. In all cases, I think, there is some correlation with "racial
type" but it's imperfect to large or small degree.

Taking "Hispanics" to mean "native speakers of Spanish", I think the
Hispanic community is analogous to other multinational communities
designated Anglophone, Francophone, etc. -- sub-groups of broader groups
such as the above. [I explicitly ignore local (US) political issues and
fads here.]

-- Doug Wilson