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) (file)

Noun

linguistics (uncountable)

The scientific study of language.
Hyponym: applied linguistics

Synonyms

glossology, glottology
linguistry
speechlore
wordlore

Meronyms

See also Thesaurus:linguistics

Derived terms

algebraic linguistics
applied linguistics
archaeolinguistics
biolinguistics
clinical linguistics
comparative linguistics
computational linguistics
contact 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 ṭənat)
Arabic: لِسَانِيَّات‎ (ar) f pl (lisāniyyāt), عِلْم اللُّغَة‎ 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, linguistika
Belarusian: мовазна́ўства n (movaznáŭstva), лінгві́стыка f (linhvístyka)
Bengali: ভাষাবিজ্ঞান (bn) (bhaṣabigẏan)
Breton: yezhoniezh (br) f
Bulgarian: лингви́стика (bg) f (lingvístika), езикозна́ние (bg) n (ezikoznánie)
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／语言学 (zh) (yǔyánxué), 言語學／言语学 (zh) (yányǔxué)
Min Nan: 語言學, 语言学 (gí-giân-ha̍k, gú-giân-ha̍k)
Chuvash: лингвистика (lingvistik̬a)
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 (eo), 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
Greek: γλωσσολογία (el) f (glossología)
Guaraní: ñe'ẽkuaaty ha ñe'ẽtekuaa
Haitian Creole: lengwistik
Hebrew: בַּלְשָׁנוּת‎ (he) f (balshanút)
Hindi: भाषाविज्ञान (hi) m (bhāṣāvigyān), लिसानियात f (lisāniyāt)
Hungarian: nyelvészet (hu), nyelvtudomány (hu)
Icelandic: málvísindi n pl
Ido: linguistiko (io)
Indonesian: linguistik (id), ilmu bahasa (id)
Interlingua: linguistica (ia)
Inuktitut: ᐅᖄᓯᓕᕆᓂᖅ (oqaasiliriniq)
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), ಭಾಷಾಶಾಸ್ತ್ರ (kn) (bhāṣāśāstra)
Kashubian: lingwistika f
Kazakh: тілтану (tıltanu), тіл ғылымы (tıl ğylymy), лингвистика (lingvistika), тілтаным (tıltanym), тіл білімі (kk) (tıl bılımı)
Khmer: ភាសាសាស្ត្រ (phiəsaa saah)
Korean: 언어학 (ko) (eoneohak)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: zimannasî (ku)
Kyrgyz: тилбилим (tilbilim), лингвистика (ky) (lingvistika)
Ladino:
Hebrew script: לינגואיסטיקה‎ f
Roman: linguistika f
Lakota: iyápi wóuŋspe
Lao: ພາສາສາດ (lo) (phā sā sāt)
Latin: linguistica f
Latvian: valodniecība f, lingvistika f
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 (ms)
Malayalam: ഭാഷാശാസ്ത്രം (ml) (bhāṣāśāstraṃ)
Maltese: lingwistika f
Manx: çhengoaylleeaght f
Mongolian: хэл шинжлэл (xel šinžlel)
Navajo: saad naalkaah
Norman: lîndgistique (Jersey)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: lingvistikk (no) m
Nynorsk: lingvistikk m
Occitan: lingüistica (oc) f
Ossetian: ӕвзагзонынад (ævzagzonynad)
Pashto: ژبپوهنه‎ (ps) f (žəbpohəna)
Persian: زبان‌شناسی‎ (fa) (zabân-šenâsi), لسانیات‎ (fa) (lesâniyât)
Polish: glotologia f, glottologia (pl) f, językoznawstwo (pl) n, lingwistyka (pl) f
Portuguese: linguística (pt) f
Punjabi: ਭਾਸ਼ਾ ਵਿਗਿਆਨ m (bhāśā vigiāna)
Quechua: simi yachaq
Romani: chhibavipen
Romanian: lingvistică (ro) f
Russian: языкозна́ние (ru) n (jazykoznánije), лингви́стика (ru) f (lingvístika), языкове́дение (ru) n (jazykovédenije)
Samogitian: kalbuotīra f
Sanskrit: भाषाविज्ञान m (bhāṣāvijñāna)
Sardinian: linguìstica f
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, lingvistika (sk) f
Slovene: jezikoslȏvje (sl) n, lingvístika (sl) f
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: lingguwistika, dalubwikaan, aghámwikà
Tajik: забоншиносӣ (tg) (zabonšinosī), лингвистика (tg) (lingvistika)
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), лінгві́стика (uk) f (linhvístyka)
Urdu: لسانیات‎ f (lisāniyāt)
Uyghur: تىلشۇناسلىق‎ (ug) (tilshunasliq)
Uzbek: tilshunoslik (uz), lingvistika (uz)
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

Anagrams

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