linguistics

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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵhwéh2s Proto-Italic *dn̥ɣwā Latin dingua Latin lingua Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English linguist Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic Old English -as Middle English -es English -s English -ics English linguistics From linguist + -ics, akin to linguistic and Latin linguisticus, coined by English philosopher and historian of science William Whewell in 1847 from German Linguistik.

199 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: taalwetenskappe — scientific study of language
• Afrikaans: taalkunde — scientific study of language
• Afrikaans: linguistiek — scientific study of language
• Albanian: gjuhësi — scientific study of language
• Albanian: linguistikë — scientific study of language
• Amharic: የቋንቋ ጥናት (yäḳwanḳwa ṭənat) — scientific study of language
• Arabic: لِسَانِيَّات (lisāniyyāt) — scientific study of language
• Arabic: عِلْم اللُّغَة (ʕilm al-luḡa) — scientific study of language
• Arabic: لُغَوِيَّات (luḡawiyyāt) — scientific study of language
• Aragonese: lingüistica — scientific study of language
• Armenian: լեզվաբանություն (lezvabanutʻyun) — scientific study of language
• Asturian: llingüística — scientific study of language
• Azerbaijani: dilçilik — scientific study of language
• Azerbaijani: dilşünaslıq — scientific study of language
• Azerbaijani: linqvistika — scientific study of language
• Balinese: basawidya — scientific study of language
• Bambara: kankalan — scientific study of language
• Basque: hizkuntzalaritza — scientific study of language
• Basque: linguistika — scientific study of language
• Belarusian: мовазна́ўства (movaznáwstva) — scientific study of language
• Belarusian: лінгві́стыка (linhvístyka) — scientific study of language
• Bengali: ভাষাবিজ্ঞান (bhaśabiggên) — scientific study of language
• Breton: yezhoniezh — scientific study of language
• Bulgarian: лингви́стика (lingvístika) — scientific study of language
• Bulgarian: езикозна́ние (ezikoznánie) — scientific study of language
• Burmese: ဘာသာဗေဒ (bhasabeda.) — scientific study of language
• Carpathian Rusyn: лінґві́стіка (lingvístika) — scientific study of language
• Catalan: lingüística — scientific study of language
• Cebuano: linggwistiks — scientific study of language
• Chinese Cantonese: 語言學 /语言学 (jyu5 jin4 hok6) — scientific study of language
• Chinese Cantonese: 言語學 /言语学 (jin4 jyu5 hok6) — scientific study of language
• Chinese: 語言學 /语言学 (gí-giân-ha̍k, gú-giân-ha̍k) — scientific study of language
• Chinese Mandarin: 語言學 /语言学 (yǔyánxué) — scientific study of language
• Chinese Mandarin: 言語學 /言语学 (yányǔxué) — scientific study of language
• Chuvash: лингвистика (lingvistik̬a) — scientific study of language
• Cornish: yethonieth — scientific study of language
• Cornish: scyens yeth — scientific study of language
• Corsican: linguistica — scientific study of language
• Czech: jazykověda — scientific study of language
• Czech: jazykozpyt — scientific study of language
• Czech: lingvistika — scientific study of language
• Danish: lingvistik — scientific study of language
• Danish: sprogvidenskab — scientific study of language
• Dhivehi: ބަހަވީ އިލްމު (bahavī ilmu) — scientific study of language
• Dutch: linguïstiek — scientific study of language
• Dutch: taalkunde — scientific study of language
• Dutch: taalwetenschappen — scientific study of language
• Erzya: кельсодамо (keľsodamo) — scientific study of language
• Esperanto: lingvoscienco — scientific study of language
• Esperanto: lingvistiko — scientific study of language
• Esperanto: lingviko — scientific study of language
• Estonian: keeleteadus — scientific study of language
• Faroese: málfrøði — scientific study of language
• Finnish: kielitiede — scientific study of language
• Finnish: lingvistiikka — scientific study of language
• French: linguistique — scientific study of language
• West-Frisian: taalkunde — scientific study of language
• Friulian: lenghistiche — scientific study of language
• Galician: lingüística — scientific study of language
• Georgian: ენათმეცნიერება (enatmecniereba) — scientific study of language
• Georgian: ლინგვისტიკა (lingvisṭiḳa) — scientific study of language
• German: Linguistik — scientific study of language
• German: Sprachwissenschaft — scientific study of language
• Greek: γλωσσολογία (glossología) — scientific study of language
• Haitian Creole: lengwistik — scientific study of language
• Hebrew: בַּלְשָׁנוּת (balshanút) — scientific study of language
• Hindi: भाषाविज्ञान (bhāṣāvijñān) — scientific study of language
• Hungarian: nyelvészet — scientific study of language
• Hungarian: nyelvtudomány — scientific study of language
• Icelandic: málvísindi — scientific study of language
• Ido: linguistiko — scientific study of language
• Indonesian: linguistik — scientific study of language
• Indonesian: ilmu bahasa — scientific study of language
• Indonesian: ilmu kebahasaan — scientific study of language
• Interlingua: linguistica — scientific study of language
• Inuktitut: ᐅᖄᓯᓕᕆᓂᖅ (oqaasiliriniq) — scientific study of language
• Irish: teangeolaíocht — scientific study of language
• Italian: linguistica — scientific study of language
• Japanese: 言語学 (gengogaku) — scientific study of language
• Javanese: linguistik — scientific study of language
• Kannada: ಭಾಷಾ ವಿಜ್ಞಾನ (bhāṣā vijñāna) — scientific study of language
• Kannada: ಭಾಷಾಶಾಸ್ತ್ರ (bhāṣāśāstra) — scientific study of language
• Kashubian: lingwistika — scientific study of language
• Kazakh: тілтану (tıltanu) — scientific study of language
• Kazakh: тіл ғылымы (tıl ğylymy) — scientific study of language
• Kazakh: лингвистика (liñvistika) — scientific study of language
• Kazakh: тілтаным (tıltanym) — scientific study of language
• Kazakh: тіл білімі (tıl bılımı) — scientific study of language
• Khmer: ភាសាសាស្ត្រ (phiəsaasaah) — scientific study of language
• Korean: 언어학 (eoneohak) — scientific study of language
• Northern Kurdish: zimannasî — scientific study of language
• Kyrgyz: тилбилим (tilbilim) — scientific study of language
• Kyrgyz: лингвистика (lingvistika) — scientific study of language
• Ladino: לינגואיסטיקה — scientific study of language
• Ladino: linguistika — scientific study of language
• Lakota: iyápi wóuŋspe — scientific study of language
• Lao: ພາສາສາດ (phā sā sāt) — scientific study of language
• Latin: linguistica — scientific study of language
• Latvian: valodniecība — scientific study of language
• Latvian: lingvistika — scientific study of language
• Limburgish: taalweitesjap — scientific study of language
• Lithuanian: lingvistika — scientific study of language
• Lithuanian: kalbotyra — scientific study of language
• Low German: Spraakwetenschop — scientific study of language
• Luxembourgish: Sproochwëssenschaft — scientific study of language
• Macedonian: лингвистика (lingvistika) — scientific study of language
• Malay: linguistik — scientific study of language
• Malayalam: ഭാഷാശാസ്ത്രം (bhāṣāśāstraṁ) — scientific study of language
• Maltese: lingwistika — scientific study of language
• Manx: çhengoaylleeaght — scientific study of language
• Māori: mātai reo — scientific study of language
• Mongolian: хэл шинжлэл (xel šinžlel) — scientific study of language
• Mongolian: хэлний шинжлэл (xelnii šinžlel) — scientific study of language
• Mongolian: ᠬᠡᠯᠡ ᠰᠢᠨᠵᠢᠯᠡᠯ (kele sinǰilel) — scientific study of language
• Mongolian: ᠬᠡᠯᠡᠨ ᠦ ᠰᠢᠨᠵᠢᠯᠡᠯ (kelen-ü sinǰilel) — scientific study of language
• Navajo: saad naalkaah — scientific study of language
• Norman: lîndgistique — scientific study of language
• Norwegian Bokmål: lingvistikk — scientific study of language
• Norwegian Nynorsk: lingvistikk — scientific study of language
• Occitan: lingüistica — scientific study of language
• Ossetian: ӕвзагзонынад (ævzagzonynad) — scientific study of language
• Pashto: ژبپوهنه (žəbpohəna) — scientific study of language
• Iranian Persian: زَبانشِناسی (zabân-šenâsi) — scientific study of language
• Iranian Persian: لِسانِیات (lesâniyât) — scientific study of language
• Polish: glotologia — scientific study of language
• Polish: glottologia — scientific study of language
• Polish: językoznawstwo — scientific study of language
• Polish: lingwistyka — scientific study of language
• Portuguese: linguística — scientific study of language
• Punjabi: ਭਾਸ਼ਾ ਵਿਗਿਆਨ (bhāśā vigiāna) — scientific study of language
• Quechua: simi yachaq — scientific study of language
• Romani: chhibavipen — scientific study of language
• Romanian: lingvistică — scientific study of language
• Russian: языкозна́ние (jazykoznánije) — scientific study of language
• Russian: лингви́стика (lingvístika) — scientific study of language
• Russian: языкове́дение (jazykovédenije) — scientific study of language
• Samogitian: kalbuotīra — scientific study of language
• Sanskrit: भाषाविज्ञान (bhāṣāvijñāna) — scientific study of language
• Sardinian: linguìstica — scientific study of language
• Scottish Gaelic: cànanachas — scientific study of language
• Serbo-Croatian: лингвѝстика — scientific study of language
• Serbo-Croatian: језикословље — scientific study of language
• Serbo-Croatian: lingvìstika — scientific study of language
• Serbo-Croatian: jezikoslovlje — scientific study of language
• Sicilian: linguìstica — scientific study of language
• Sindhi: لسانيات (lisāniāt) — scientific study of language
• Slovak: jazykoveda — scientific study of language
• Slovak: lingvistika — scientific study of language
• Slovene: jezikoslȏvje — scientific study of language
• Slovene: lingvístika — scientific study of language
• Lower Sorbian: rěcywěda — scientific study of language
• Lower Sorbian: linguistika — scientific study of language
• Upper Sorbian: rěčespyt — scientific study of language
• Upper Sorbian: linguistika — scientific study of language
• Spanish: lingüística — scientific study of language
• Spanish: glotología — scientific study of language
• Sundanese: linguistik — scientific study of language
• Swahili: isimu — scientific study of language
• Swedish: lingvistik — scientific study of language
• Swedish: språkvetenskap — scientific study of language
• Tagalog: lingguwistika — scientific study of language
• Tagalog: dalubwikaan — scientific study of language
• Tagalog: agham-wika — scientific study of language
• Tajik: забоншиносӣ (zabonšinosi) — scientific study of language
• Tajik: лингвистика (lingvistika) — scientific study of language
• Tamil: மொழியியல் (moḻiyiyal) — scientific study of language
• Tatar: тел белеме (tel beleme) — scientific study of language
• Telugu: భాషాశాస్త్రము (bhāṣāśāstramu) — scientific study of language
• Thai: ภาษาศาสตร์ (paa-sǎa-sàat) — scientific study of language
• Tibetan: སྐད་བརྡ་རིག་པ། (skad brda rig pa) — scientific study of language
• Tibetan: བརྡ་སྤྲོད་རིག་གནས (brda sprod rig gnas) — scientific study of language
• Tibetan: སྐད་ཡིག་རིག་གནས (skad yig rig gnas) — scientific study of language
• Tok Pisin: save long tokples — scientific study of language
• Turkish: dilbilim — scientific study of language
• Turkish: dil bilimi — scientific study of language
• Turkish: lengüistik — scientific study of language
• Turkish: lisâniyat — scientific study of language
• Turkmen: dil bilimi — scientific study of language
• Turkmen: lingwistika — scientific study of language
• Udmurt: кылтодон (kyltodon) — scientific study of language
• Udmurt: кылтодос (kyltodos) — scientific study of language
• Udmurt: лингвистика (ľingvisťika) — scientific study of language
• Ukrainian: мовозна́вство (movoznávstvo) — scientific study of language
• Ukrainian: лінгві́стика (linhvístyka) — scientific study of language
• Urdu: لِسانِیات (lisāniyāt) — scientific study of language
• Uyghur: تىلشۇناسلىق (tilshunasliq) — scientific study of language
• Uzbek: tilshunoslik — scientific study of language
• Uzbek: lingvistika — scientific study of language
• Venetan: łenguìstega — scientific study of language
• Vietnamese: ngôn ngữ học — scientific study of language
• Volapük: pükav — scientific study of language
• Võro: keeletiidüs — scientific study of language
• Walloon: linwince — scientific study of language
• Waray-Waray: lingguwistika — scientific study of language
• Welsh: ieithyddiaeth — scientific study of language
• Yiddish: לינגוויסטיק (lingvistik) — scientific study of language
• Yiddish: שפּראַך־וויסנשאַפֿט (shprakh-visnshaft) — scientific study of language
• Zealandic: taelkunde — scientific study of language
• Zhuang: yijyenzyoz — scientific study of language