glottology

[ glo-tol-uh-jee ]

noun

, Obsolete.

1. linguistics.

Other Words From

• glot·to·log·ic [glot-l-, oj, -ik], glotto·logi·cal adjective
• glot·tolo·gist noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of glottology¹

First recorded in 1835–45; glotto- + -logy

Example Sentences

Glott′al; Glott′ic, pertaining to the tongue or to glottology.

From Project Gutenberg

Whether it be called linguistique, glottology, phonology, or even, by a too common abuse, comparative philology, the science of language follows the same method as the other natural sciences, and advances by observation and experience.

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The typical case is furnished by glottology, and in a more special fashion by the study which has for its object the ancient languages.

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I am not a student or professor of glottology, contenting myself with being able to speak one or two languages without troubling my head over their origin, so I dare not judge upon the affinity more or less remote of the not too sweet Sakai idioms with others, but there seemed to me such a marked difference between the Malay and Sakai phraseologies that I should have declared them to be absolutely distinct one from the other.

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