Was ist Linguistik?

Ich bin persönlich interessiert an der Linguistik, wo es um Sprachfamilien und Völkerwanderung geht, also nicht so bezogen darauf wie man ein ð ausspricht oder so. Ist Ljnguistik nur Sprachfamilien und so oder ist es auch noch mit der Aussprache von Buchstaben und dem Gebiss und so?

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ZitrusLiebe
1 year ago

Linguistics encompasses many areas such as language history, international studies, computer science, but also biology or neurology.

You are probably interested in international migration and language development. A few language families are well understandable:

  • Indogermanistik – from equestrian people to Hindus, Romans, Greeks and ultimately to us.
  • The hikes of the Polynesia. Each isolated island – Aotearoa, Hawaii, Samoa, Fiji, the Easter Island… has a characteristic language. If you go back even further, the Austronesque is spread from Madagascar, Taiwan to almost America.
  • Afroasian – the oldest language family in the world. Did you know that Ancient Egyptian, Arabic/Hebrew, Berber and Somali are related?
  • Vikings have left traces everywhere. The Nordic languages testify to their journeys.

After more than 10,000 years, however, the differences are washed so that one will not find any more similarities. That is why African, American or Australian languages are so different.

Adomox
1 year ago

You are obviously interested in historical linguistics, i.e. the part of linguistics that deals with language history and typology from a diachronous perspective.

In order to be able to make meaningful historical linguistics, one also needs at least basic knowledge in the other coarse subareas, since it is this knowledge of the individual subareas that uses historical linguistics to understand and describe language developments. Anyone who has no idea of the sounds of human language and their systematics will be hard to analyze a sound development.

Accordingly, historical linguistics in general can also not be studied as an independent course of study, but can also be specialized in general linguistics. The prerequisite for this is, of course, that the respective university has a department for historical linguistics at all.