Definition of "glottology" []

• The science of tongues or languages; comparative philology; glossology. (noun)

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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."
• "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"
• "Post by 20\% volunteer and glottology expert, Brett Bavar."