linguistics

See also: lingüístics

English

Etymology

From linguist +‎ -ics, a modification of earlier linguistic, coined by English polymath William Whewell in 1837 from German Linguistik.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɪŋˈɡwɪstɪks/
• (US, pre-/ŋ/ tensing) IPA^(key): /liŋˈɡwɪstɪks/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

Wikiversity

linguistics (uncountable)

1. The scientific study of language.

Synonyms

• glossology, glottology
• linguistry
• speechlore

Meronyms

• See also Thesaurus:linguistics

Derived terms

Derived terms

• algebraic linguistics
• applied linguistics
• archaeolinguistics
• biolinguistics
• clinical linguistics
• comparative linguistics
• computational linguistics
• diachronic linguistics
• ecolinguistics
• ethnolinguistics
• Eurolinguistics
• evolutionary linguistics

• historical linguistics
• interlinguistics
• metalinguistics
• microlinguistics
• neurolinguistics
• paleolinguistics
• pseudolinguistics
• psycholinguistics
• sociolinguistics
• theolinguistics
• xenolinguistics

Related terms

• linguist
• linguistic

Translations

scientific study of language

• Afrikaans: taalwetenskappe, taalkunde (af), linguistiek
• Albanian: gjuhësi (sq)
• Amharic: የቋንቋ ጥናት (yäḳʷanḳʷa ṭnat)
• Arabic: لِسَانِيَّات‎ (ar) f pl (lisāniyyāt), عِلْم اَللُّغَة‎ m (ʿilm al-luḡa), لُغَوِيَّات‎ (ar) (luḡawiyyāt)
• Aragonese: lingüistica f
• Armenian: լեզվաբանություն (hy) (lezvabanutʿyun)
• Asturian: llingüística f
• Azerbaijani: dilçilik, dilşünaslıq, linqvistika
• Balinese: ᬩᬲᬯᬶᬤ᭄ᬬ (basawidya)
• Bambara: kankalan
• Basque: hizkuntzalaritza
• Belarusian: мо̀вазна́ўства n (mòvaznáŭstva), лінгвістыка f (linhvistyka)
• Bengali: ভাষাবিজ্ঞান (bn) (bhaṣabiggan)
• Breton: yezhoniezh (br) f
• Bulgarian: лингвистика (bg) f (lingvistika), езикознание (bg) n (ezikoznanie)
• Burmese: ဘာသာဗေဒ (my) (bhasabeda.)
• Catalan: lingüística (ca) f
• Cebuano: linggwistiks
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 語言學, 语言学 (jyu⁵ jin⁴ hok⁶), 言語學, 言语学 (jin⁴ jyu⁵ hok⁶)

  Mandarin: 語言學 (zh), 语言学 (zh) (yǔyánxué), 言語學 (zh), 言语学 (zh) (yányǔxué)

  Min Nan: 語言學, 语言学 (gí^-giân^-ha̍k, gú^-giân^-ha̍k)

• Chuvash: лингвистика (lingvistika)
• Cornish: yethonieth f, scyens yeth
• Corsican: linguistica f
• Czech: jazykověda (cs) f, jazykozpyt m, lingvistika (cs) f
• Danish: lingvistik (da) c, sprogvidenskab c
• Dhivehi: ބަހަވީ އިލްމު‎ (bahavī ilmu)
• Dutch: linguïstiek (nl) f, taalkunde (nl) f, taalwetenschappen (nl) f pl
• Esperanto: lingvoscienco (eo), lingvistiko, lingviko (eo)
• Estonian: keeleteadus (et)
• Faroese: málfrøði (fo) f
• Finnish: kielitiede (fi), lingvistiikka (fi)
• French: linguistique (fr) f
• Friulian: lenghistiche f
• Galician: lingüística (gl) f
• Georgian: ენათმეცნიერება (enatmecniereba), ლინგვისტიკა (lingvisṭiḳa)
• German: Linguistik (de) f, Sprachwissenschaft (de) f

  Central Franconian: Shproocheweßßeschaff f

• Greek: γλωσσολογία (el) f (glossología)
• Guaraní: ñe'ẽkuaaty ha ñe'ẽtekuaa
• Haitian Creole: lengwistik
• Hebrew: בלשנות‎ (he) f (balshanut)
• Hindi: भाषाविज्ञान (hi) m (bhāṣāvigyān)
• Hungarian: nyelvészet (hu), nyelvtudomány (hu)
• Icelandic: málvísindi n pl
• Ido: linguistiko (io)
• Indonesian: linguistik (id)
• Interlingua: linguistica (ia)
• Inuktitut: ᐅᖄᓯᓕᕆᓂᖅ (uqaasiliriniq)
• Irish: teangeolaíocht f
• Italian: linguistica (it) f
• Japanese: 言語学 (ja) (げんごがく, gengogaku)
• Javanese: linguistik
• Kannada: ಭಾಷಾ ವಿಜ್ಞಾನ (kn) (bhāṣā vijñāna)
• Kashubian: lingwistika f
• Kazakh: тілтану (tiltanw), тіл ғылымы (til ğılımı)
• Khmer: ភាសាសាស្ត្រ (pʰiesaa saah)
• Korean: 언어학 (ko) (eoneohak)
• Kurdish: zimannasî (ku)
• Ladino:

  Hebrew script: לינגואיסטיקה‎ f

  Roman: linguistika f

• Lakota: iyápi wóuŋspe
• Lao: ພາສາສາດ (lo) (phā sā sāt)
• Latin: linguistica f
• Latvian: valodniecība, lingvistika

• Limburgish: taalweitesjap f
• Lithuanian: lingvistika (lt) f, kalbotyra (lt) f
• Low German: Spraakwetenschop (nds) f
• Luxembourgish: Sproochwëssenschaft (lb) f
• Macedonian: лингвистика f (lingvistika)
• Malay: linguistik
• Maltese: lingwistika f
• Manx: çhengoaylleeaght f
• Navajo: saad naalkaah
• Norman: lîndgistique (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: lingvistikk (no) m

  Nynorsk: lingvistikk m

• Occitan: lingüistica (oc) f
• Old English: spræccræft m
• Ossetian: ӕвзагзонынад (ævzagzonynad)
• Pashto: ژبپوهنه‎ (ps) f (žəbpohəna)
• Persian: زبان‌شناسی‎ (fa) (zabân-šenâsi)
• Polish: lingwistyka (pl) f, językoznawstwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: linguística (pt) f
• Quechua: simi yachaq
• Romani: chhibavipen
• Romanian: lingvistică (ro) f
• Russian: языкозна́ние (ru) n (jazykoznánije), лингви́стика (ru) f (lingvístika)
• Samogitian: kalbuotīra f
• Sanskrit: भाषाविज्ञान m (bhāṣāvijñāna)
• Sardinian: linguìstica f
• Saterland Frisian: sproakwietenskup f
• Scots: lingueestics
• Scottish Gaelic: cànanachas m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: лингвѝстика f, језикословље n

  Roman: lingvìstika (sh) f, jezikoslovlje (sh) n

• Sicilian: linguìstica f
• Sindhi: لسانيات‎ (sd) (lisāniāt)
• Slovak: jazykoveda f
• Slovene: jezikoslovje (sl) n
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: rěcywěda f, linguistika f

  Upper Sorbian: rěčespyt m, linguistika f

• Spanish: lingüística (es) f
• Sundanese: linguistik
• Swahili: isimu (sw)
• Swedish: lingvistik (sv) c, språkvetenskap (sv) c
• Tagalog: dalubwikaan
• Tajik: забоншиносӣ (tg) (zabonšinosī)
• Tamil: மொழியியல் (ta) (moḻiyiyal)
• Tatar: тел белеме (tel beleme)
• Telugu: భాషాశాస్త్రము (bhāṣāśāstramu)
• Thai: ภาษาศาสตร์ (th) (paa-sǎa-sàat)
• Tibetan: སྐད་བརྡ་རིག་པ། (skad brda rig pa), བརྡ་སྤྲོད་རིག་གནས (brda sprod rig gnas), སྐད་ཡིག་རིག་གནས (skad yig rig gnas)
• Tok Pisin: save long tokples
• Turkish: dilbilim (tr), dil bilimi (tr),, lengüistik (tr), lisâniyat
• Turkmen: dil bilimi, lingwistika
• Udmurt: кылтодос (kyltodos)
• Ukrainian: мовозна́вство (uk) n (movoznávstvo)
• Urdu: لسانیات‎ (lisāniāt)
• Uyghur: تىلشۇناسلىق‎ (ug) (tilshunasliq)
• Venetian: łenguìstega f
• Vietnamese: ngôn ngữ học (vi)
• Volapük: pükav (vo)
• Võro: keeletiidüs
• Walloon: linwince (wa) f
• Waray-Waray: lingguwistika
• Welsh: ieithyddiaeth (cy) f
• West Frisian: taalkunde f
• Yiddish: לינגוויסטיק‎ f (lingvistik), שפּראַך־וויסנשאַפֿט‎ f (shprakh-visnshaft)
• Zealandic: taelkunde f

See also

• diction
• grammar
• morphology
• philology
• phonetics
• phonology
• pragmatics
• semantics
• syntax

Anagrams

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