historical linguistics

English

Noun

historical linguistics (uncountable)

1. (linguistics) The scientific study of language change.

Synonyms

• diachronic linguistics

Translations

the scientific study of language change

• Afrikaans: diachroniese taalkunde, historiese taalkunde
• Arabic: لغويات تاريخية‎ f (laghawiat tarikhia)
• Asturian: llingüística hestórica f
• Basque: hizkuntzalaritza historiko, hiskuntzalaritza diakronikoa
• Bengali: ঐতিহাসিক ভাষাবিজ্ঞান (ôitihasik bhaṣabiggan)
• Catalan: lingüística diacrònica f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 歷史語言學, 历史语言学 (lik⁶ si² jyu⁵ jin⁴ hok⁶), 歷史言語學, 历史言语学 (lik⁶ si² jin⁴ jyu⁵ hok⁶)

  Mandarin: 歷史語言學, 历史语言学 (lìshǐ yǔyánxué), 歷史言語學, 历史言语学 (lìshǐ yányǔxué)

• Czech: historická lingvistika f, diachronní lingvistika f
• Dutch: historische taalkunde f
• Esperanto: historio de lingvo
• Finnish: kielihistoria (fi)
• French: linguistique historique f, linguistique diachronique f
• Galician: lingüística histórica f, lingüística diacrónica f
• German: Historische Sprachwissenschaft (de) f, Historische Linguistik f, Historiolinguistik (de) f
• Greek: ιστορική γλωσσολογία f (istorikí glossología)
• Hebrew: הִיסְטוֹרִית‎ בַּלְשָׁנוּת‎‎ f (balshanút histórit)
• Hindi: ऐतिहासिक भाषाविज्ञान m (aitihāsik bhāṣāvigyān)
• Hungarian: történeti nyelvészet
• Icelandic: söguleg málvísindi n pl
• Indonesian: linguistik historis (id)
• Interlingua: linguistica historic, linguistica diachronic
• Italian: linguistica storica f, linguistica diacronica f
• Japanese: 歴史言語学 (れきしげんごがく, rekishi gengo-gaku)

• Korean: 역사언어학 (yeoksa-eoneohak)
• Kurdish: zimannasiya dîrokî f
• Latin: linguistica historica f
• Macedonian: историска лингвистика f (istoriska lingvistika), дијахроната лингвистика f (dijahronata lingvistika)
• Manx: çhengoaylleeaght hennaghyssagh f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: historisk lingvistikk m

  Nynorsk: historisk lingvistikk m

• Polish: językoznawstwo historyczne n, językoznawstwo diachroniczne n
• Portuguese: linguística histórica (pt) f, linguística diacrônica f
• Punjabi: ਇਤਿਹਾਸਕ ਭਾਸ਼ਾ ਵਿਗਿਆਨ (etihāsk bhāshā vigiān), ਦੁਕਾਲੀ ਭਾਸ਼ਾ ਵਿਗਿਆਨ (dukālī bhāshā vigiān)
• Romanian: lingvistică diacronică (ro) f, (lingvistică istorică)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дијакро̀нӣјска лингвѝстика f

  Roman: dijakrònījska lingvìstika f

• Slovak: historická jazykoveda f, diachronická jazykoveda f
• Slovene: zgodovinsko jezikoslovje n
• Spanish: lingüística histórica f, lingüística diacrónica f
• Swedish: historisk lingvistik c
• Tagalog: lingguwistikang pangkasaysayan
• Tamil: வரலாற்று மொழியியல் (varalāṟṟu moḻiyiyal)
• Telugu: చారిత్రక భాషాశాస్త్రం (cāritraka bhāṣāśāstraṃ)
• Thai: ภาษาศาสตร์เชิงประวัติ (paa-săa sàat cherng bprà-wàt)
• Ukrainian: діахроні́чна лінгві́стика f (diaxroníčna linhvístyka)

References

• 1980, Fr. van Coetsem, Linda R. Waugh, Contributions to Historical Linguistics: Issues and Materials, Brill Archive (→ISBN)