Linguistics and Writing Systems


 * abbreviation
 * ablaut
 * acrolect
 * acronym
 * affix
 * Afroasiatic
 * agglutination
 * allomorph
 * alphabet
 * alphabetize
 * alternation
 * amelioration
 * American Sign Language
 * analogy
 * analytic
 * Anglo-Saxon
 * antepenult
 * anthropological linguistics
 * antonym
 * apophony
 * applied linguistics
 * Aramaic
 * archaism
 * argot
 * artificial language
 * Austronesian
 * baby talk
 * Baltic
 * Bantu
 * base
 * baseliect
 * bilingual
 * blend
 * bound form
 * boustrophedon
 * Braille
 * Briticism
 * calque
 * cant
 * Celtic
 * citation
 * code-switching
 * sognate
 * coinage
 * collocation
 * colloquial
 * combining form
 * comment
 * comparative linguistics
 * competence
 * computational linguistics
 * connotation
 * contamination
 * corpus
 * Creole
 * Cuneiform
 * Cursive
 * Cyrillic
 * dead language
 * deep structure
 * definiendum
 * definiens
 * demotic
 * denotation
 * derivation
 * descriptive grammar
 * descriptive linguistics
 * Devanagari
 * diachronic
 * dialect
 * dialect atlas
 * dialectology
 * dictionary
 * diglossia
 * direct discourse
 * discourse analysis
 * doublet
 * Dravidian
 * eponym
 * Esperanto
 * etymology
 * etymon
 * expression
 * eye dialect
 * fingerspellling
 * fluency
 * folk etymology
 * formal
 * franlais
 * free form
 * generative grammar
 * Germanic
 * ghost word
 * glossary
 * grapheme
 * graphology
 * Grimms law
 * Hangul
 * hapax legomenon
 * Hellenic
 * heteronym
 * hieratic
 * hieroglyphic
 * hieroglyphics
 * historial linguistics
 * Hobson-Jobson
 * holophrase
 * homograph
 * homonym
 * homophone
 * honorific
 * hypercorrection
 * ideogram
 * ideograph
 * idiolect
 * idiom
 * illiteracy
 * Indic
 * indirect discourse
 * Indo-Aryan
 * Indo-European
 * Indo-Iranian
 * infix
 * informal
 * informant
 * interlingual
 * Inranian
 * isogloss
 * Italic
 * Japlish
 * jargon
 * jive
 * kana
 * kanji
 * kings English
 * Kufic
 * language
 * language family
 * language universal
 * latin
 * latin alphabet
 * lemmaletter
 * lexaeme
 * lexical
 * lexicographer
 * lexicography
 * lexicology
 * lexicon
 * lingo
 * lingua franca
 * linguist
 * linguistic atlas
 * linguistics
 * lipreading
 * literacy
 * literatim
 * loan translation
 * loanword
 * logogram
 * longhand
 * Macronic
 * Malayo-Polynesian
 * manual alphabet
 * melioration
 * metalanguage
 * metalinguistics
 * Middle English
 * Modern English
 * morpheme
 * morphology
 * morphonophoneme
 * morphophonemics
 * mother tongue
 * multilingual
 * native speaker
 * natural language
 * neologism
 * Niger-Congo
 * nonce word
 * nonstandard
 * nonverbal communication
 * Old English
 * onomastics
 * orismology
 * orthography
 * paradigmatic
 * paragraph
 * paralanguage
 * parlance
 * paronym
 * patois
 * patronymic
 * pejoration
 * penult
 * performance
 * philology
 * phonogram
 * phraseogram
 * pictograph
 * picture writing
 * pidgin
 * pinylin
 * pochismo
 * polyglot
 * polysemous
 * polyshnthestic
 * portmanteau word
 * pragmatics
 * prefix
 * prescriptive grammar
 * protolanguage
 * provincialism
 * proxemics
 * psycholinguistics
 * queens English
 * reconstruction
 * relect
 * reformed spelling
 * regionalism
 * rheme
 * rhotacism
 * romaji
 * Roman alphabet
 * Romance language
 * romanzation
 * root
 * rune
 * Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
 * script
 * semantics
 * semiotics
 * Semitic
 * shorthand
 * sign
 * signed English
 * signing
 * sign language
 * Sino-Tibetan
 * slang
 * Slavic
 * sociolect
 * sociolinguistics
 * sound symbolism
 * source language
 * speech community
 * spelling
 * Sprachgefuhl
 * standard
 * stem
 * structuralism
 * structural linguistics
 * substandard
 * substratum
 * suffix
 * Sumerian
 * superstratum
 * surface structure
 * syllabary
 * synaesthesia
 * synchronic
 * syncretism
 * synonym
 * syntactics
 * syntagmatic
 * syntax
 * synthestic
 * tagmeme
 * tagmemics
 * target language
 * taxeme
 * theme
 * thesaurus
 * tone language
 * toneme
 * tongue
 * topic
 * transformational grammar
 * translation
 * transliteration
 * ultima
 * uncial
 * usage
 * variant
 * verbatim
 * vernacular
 * vocabulary
 * vulgar
 * vulgarism
 * Wade-Giles system
 * word
 * word-hoard
 * zoosemiotics