Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as glossology.
Wiktionary
- n. The science of tongues or languages; comparative philology; glossology.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The science of tongues or languages; comparative philology; glossology.
Etymologies
- Ancient Greek (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The typical case is furnished by glottology, and in a more special fashion by the study which has for its object the ancient languages.”
“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”
My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula)
“Post by 20\% volunteer and glottology expert, Brett Bavar.”
“And we have glottology expert Brett Bavar at Google to thank for this.”
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