Concept information
Preferred term
linguistic typology
Definition
- Language types and language typology refer to characterizing languages of the world by similarities and differences in their structural forms and in their functional uses. They also refer to characterizing them according to language families where there is evidence that the languages have common structural relationships that are consistent with some “parent” language (i.e., genetic classification). [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Language, Types of]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- animal language
- artificial languages
- child language
- computer languages
- distinctive features (language)
- figurative language
- language of instruction
- languages for special purposes
- language universals
- mutual intelligibility
- native language
- official languages
- oral language
- programming languages
- sign language
- symbolic language
- tone languages
- uncommonly taught languages
- urban language
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/linguistic_typology
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