linguistics

English Wikipedia has an article on:

linguistics

Wikipedia

From linguist +‎ -ics, akin to linguistic and Latin linguisticus, coined by English philosopher and historian of science William Whewell in 1847 from German Linguistik.

• IPA^(key): /lɪŋˈɡwɪstɪks/
• (US, pre-/ŋ/ tensing) IPA^(key): /liŋˈɡwɪstɪks/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

linguistics (uncountable)

2. The systematic and scholarly study of language.

   Synonyms: glossology, glottology, linguistry, speechlore, wordlore

   a branch of linguistics

   to study linguistics

   • 1997, Jacob W. Gruber, “American Philosophical Society”, in History of Physical Anthropology, page 64:

     By the end of the century, the APS’s membership included the leaders of the American anthropological establishment, whose primary investigative interests were the ethnography, linguistics, archeology, and physical anthropology of the American Indian, within a theoretical structure that was essentially historical.

Modern linguistics does not include learning a new language, rhetoric, speech writing, comparative philology, or other language-related disciplines that were prevalent before the 20th century.

• See also Thesaurus:linguistics

• linguicists