lingvistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of language, examining how languages are structured, how they vary, how they change over time, and how people acquire and use language. It seeks to describe the patterns and processes that underlie speech, writing, and signs, and to explain how language reflects and shapes human thought and social interaction.
Core subfields cover different levels of analysis. Phonetics and phonology study the sounds of language and
Methods and data in linguistics include descriptive analysis of language data, fieldwork, and corpus-based studies. Researchers
Applications of linguistics appear in language documentation and revitalization, language education, speech recognition, machine translation, and