historical linguistics

historical linguistics

English

Etymology

historical +‎ linguistics

Noun

historical linguistics (uncountable)

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

   Synonym: diachronic linguistics

Translations

the scientific study of language change

Afrikaans: diachroniese taalkunde, historiese taalkunde Arabic: لُغَوِيَات تَارِيخِيَّة‎ f (luḡawiyāt tārīḵiyya) Asturian: llingüística hestórica f Basque: hizkuntzalaritza historiko, hiskuntzalaritza diakronikoa Bengali: ঐতিহাসিক ভাষাবিজ্ঞান (oitihasik bhaṣabigẏan) 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 (zh) (lìshǐ yǔyánxué), 歷史言語學／历史言语学 (zh) (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 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 (ja) (れきしげんごがく, rekishi gengo-gaku) Korean: 역사언어학 (yeoksa'eoneohak) Kurdish: Northern 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, språkhistorie f, målsoge f Polish: językoznawstwo historyczne n, językoznawstwo diachroniczne n Portuguese: linguística histórica (pt) f, linguística diacrônica f Punjabi: ਇਤਿਹਾਸਕ ਭਾਸ਼ਾ ਵਿਗਿਆਨ (itihāsak bhāśā vigiāna), ਦੁਕਾਲੀ ਭਾਸ਼ਾ ਵਿਗਿਆਨ (dukālī bhāśā vigiāna) Romanian: lingvistică istorică f, lingvistică diacronică (ro) f 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 bhāṣāśāstraṁ) Thai: ภาษาศาสตร์เชิงประวัติ (paa-săa sàat cherng bprà-wàt) Ukrainian: діахроні́чна лінгві́стика f (diaxroníčna linhvístyka)

Further reading

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