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Linguistics is the scientific study of language, involving analysis of language form, language meaning, and language in context. Language use was first systematically documented in Mesopotamia, with extant lexical lists of the 3rd to the 2nd Millenia BCE, offering glossaries on Sumerian cuneiform
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See moreAcross cultures, the early history of linguistics is associated with a need to disambiguate discourse, especially for ritual texts or arguments. This often led to explorations of sound-meaning mappings, and the debate over
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See moreArabic grammar
Owing to the rapid expansion of Islam in the 8th century, many people learned Arabic as...
See moreModern linguistics did not begin until the late 18th century, and the Romantic or animist theses of Johann Gottfried Herder and
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