Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
glossology .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The science of tongues or languages; comparative philology; glossology.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
science oftongues orlanguages ;comparative philology ;glossology .
Etymologies
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Examples
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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
My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) Giovanni Battista Cerruti 1882
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Post by 20\% volunteer and glottology expert, Brett Bavar.
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Post by 20\% volunteer and glottology expert, Brett Bavar.
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And we have glottology expert Brett Bavar at Google to thank for this.
CNET News.com 2008
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Post by 20\% volunteer and glottology expert, Brett Bavar.
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Post by 20\% volunteer and glottology expert, Brett Bavar.
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Post by 20\% volunteer and glottology expert, Brett Bavar.
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Post by 20\% volunteer and glottology expert, Brett Bavar.
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Post by 20\% volunteer and glottology expert, Brett Bavar.
Waxy.org Links 2008
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