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From phono- + -logy .
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phonology (countable and uncountable , plural phonologies )
( linguistics , uncountable ) The study of the way sounds function in languages , including phonemes , syllable structure, stress , accent , intonation , and which sounds are distinctive units within a language.
( linguistics , countable ) The way sounds function within a given language ; a phonological system.
1856 , Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia , Mission Press, page 16:
The Achean, the ancient Malayu and other mixed phonologies possessing a considerable degree of harshness, were thus formed.
1997 , Jacek Fisiak, Trends in Linguistics: Studies in Middle English Linguistics →ISBN , Walter de Gruyter, page 545:
Crucially, the neat separateness of phonologies which my account seems to imply is an abstraction and does not mean that the phonologies represented different regional or social dialects.
2005 , Charles W. Kreidler, Phonology , page 219:
Thus, underlying ‘agtus’ was converted first into ‘āgtus’ by the vowel lengthening rule, and then into ‘āktus’ by the ancient persistent rule. This example has previously been interpreted as indicating that new rules can enter a phonology elsewhere than at depth I.
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subfield of linguistics concerned with the way sounds function in languages
Albanian: fonologji (sq) f
Arabic: فُونُولُوجِيَّا f ( funulujiyyā ) , عِلْمُ ٱلْأَصْوَاتِ ٱللُّغَوِيَّةِ m ( ʕilmu l-ʔaṣwāti l-luḡawiyyati ) , نُطْقِيَّات f pl ( nuṭqiyyāt ) , اَلتَّصْرِيفُ ٱلصَّوْتِيُّ m ( at-taṣrīfu ṣ-ṣawtiyyu )
Armenian: հնչույթաբանություն (hy) ( hnčʻuytʻabanutʻyun )
Asturian: fonoloxía f
Azerbaijani: fonologiya
Belarusian: фанало́гія f ( fanalóhija )
Bengali: ধ্বনিতত্ত্ব ( dhonitotto )
Bulgarian: фоноло́гия f ( fonológija )
Catalan: fonologia f
Cebuano: ponolohiya
Chinese:
Mandarin: 音韻學 / 音韵学 (zh) ( yīnyùnxué ) , 音韵学 (zh) ( yīnyùnxué ) , 音位學 / 音位学 (zh) ( yīnwèixué ) , 音位学 (zh) ( yīnwèixué ) , 音系學 / 音系学 ( yīnxìxué ) , 音系学 ( yīnxìxué )
Czech: fonologie f
Danish: fonologi (da) c
Dutch: klankleer (nl) m or f
Esperanto: fonologio
Estonian: fonoloogia
Extremaduran: fonolohia f
Finnish: fonologia (fi)
French: phonologie (fr) f
Galician: fonoloxía f
Georgian: ფონოლოგია ( ponologia )
German: Phonologie (de) f , Phonemik (de) f
Greek: φωνολογία (el) f ( fonología )
Hindi: स्वनिमविज्ञान m ( svanimvijñān )
Hungarian: fonológia (hu)
Icelandic: hljóðkerfisfræði f
Indonesian: fonologi (id)
Italian: fonologia (it) f
Japanese: 音韻論 ( おんいんろん, on'inron ) , 音韻学 ( おんいんがく, on'ingaku )
Kazakh: фонология ( fonologiä )
Khmer: សូរវិទ្យា ( so vi tyea )
Korean: 음운론 (ko) ( eumullon ) , 어음학 ( eo'eumhak )
Kyrgyz: фонология ( fonologiya )
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Latin: phonologia f
Latvian: fonoloģija f
Lithuanian: fonologija f
Macedonian: фоноло́гија f ( fonológija )
Malay: fonologi
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian Bokmål: fonologi m
Occitan: fonologia f
Persian: واجشناسی ( vâj-šenâsi )
Polish: fonologia (pl) f
Portuguese: fonologia (pt) f
Romanian: fonologie (ro) f
Russian: фоноло́гия (ru) f ( fonológija )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: фоноло̀гија f
Roman: fonològija (sh) f
Sindhi: وايوڀياسُ (sd) m ( Viobhiyaasu )
Slovak: fonológia (sk) f
Slovene: fonologija f
Spanish: fonología (es) f
Swahili: fonolojia
Swedish: fonologi (sv) c
Tagalog: tinigan , dalubtinigan , ponolohiya
Tamil: ஒலியனியல் (ta) ( oliyaṉiyal )
Thai: สัทวิทยา (th) ( sàt wít-tá-yaa ) , สรวิทยา ( sŏn wít-tá-yaa )
Tibetan: སྒྲ་སྦྱོར་རིག་པ ( sgra sbyor rig pa )
Turkish: sesbilim (tr) , fonoloji (tr)
Ukrainian: фоноло́гія f ( fonolóhija )
Uzbek: fonologiya (uz)
Vietnamese: âm vị học
Welsh: ffonoleg f
Yiddish: פֿאָנאָלאָגיע f ( fonologye )
way sounds function within a given language
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