Language/Multiple-languages/Vocabulary/Must‐Know-Words-for-Polyglots

Must-know words for polyglots.

[Lesson in progress]

Polyglots are really passionate about language learning and linguistics, therefore it's important for them to learn all kinds of terms. On this page, you will find the most important ones.

If you need a full GLOSSARY OF LINGUISTIC TERMS, see:

• https://glossary.sil.org/term
• https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary

If you need a clear categorization of linguistics, see:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_linguistics#Branches_of_linguistics

[[1]] [linguistics|theoretical linguistics] [[2]] [(linguistics)|morphology] [[3]] [[4]] [[5]] [description|descriptive linguistics] [linguistics|anthropological linguistics] [linguistics|historical linguistics] [[6]] [[7]] [[8]] [linguistics|applied linguistics] [linguistics|computational linguistics] [[9]] [[10]] [[11]] [[12]] [[13]] [[14]] [[15]] [[16]]

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[(phonetics)|phone] [[23]] [consonant|pulmonic consonant] non–pulmonic consonant [consonant|ejective consonant] [consonant|click consonant] [consonant|implosive consonant] [of articulation|place of articulation] [consonant|labial consonant] [consonant|bilabial consonant] [consonant|labiodental consonant] [consonant|coronal consonant] [consonant|linguolabial consonant] [consonant|interdental consonant] [consonant|denti-alveolar consonant] [consonant|dental consonant] [consonant] [consonant|alveolar consonant] [consonant|postalveolar consonant] [consonant|palato-alveolar consonant] [consonant|retroflex consonant] [consonant|dorsal consonant] [consonant|postalveolar consonant] [consonant|alveolo-palatal consonant] [consonant|palatal consonant] [consonant] [consonant|uvular consonant] [consonant|laryngeal consonant] [consonant|pharyngeal consonant] [consonant|glottal consonant] [of articulation|manner of articulation] [[24]] [consonant|stop consonant] [consonant|affricate consonant] [consonant|fricative consonant] [[25]] [[26]]* [consonant|nasal consonant] [consonant|approximant consonant] [[27]] [consonant|vibrant consonant] [consonant|flap/tap consonant] [consonant|trill consonant] [consonant|liquid consonant] [consonant|rhotic consonant] [consonant|lateral consonant] [[28]] [[29]] [[30]] [vowel] [vowel] [vowel] [vowel] [vowel] [vowel] [vowel] [vowel] [vowel] [vowel] [vowel & rounded vowel] [vowel] [[31]] [[32]] [[33]] [(alphabet)|letter] [case|letter case] [[34]] [system] [[35]] [[36]] [[37]] [[38]] [[39]] [[40]] [[41]] [[42]] [[43]] [[44]] [Phonetic Alphabet|International Phonetic Alphabet] [change]

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[formation] [[55]] [[56]] [[57]] [[58]] [word] [[59]] [[60]] [[61]] [[62]] [[63]]

[(linguistics)|root]

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[tree|parse tree] constituency-based parse tree dependency-based parse tree

[word|function word] [word|content word]

[of speech|part of speech] [(grammar)|conjunction] [[78]] [(grammar)|contraction] [particle|particle] [(linguistics)|classifier] [(linguistics)|numeral] [number (linguistics)|cardinal number] [number (linguistics)|ordinal number] [(linguistics)|multiplier] [number|distributive number] [number|nominal number] [[79]] attributive adjective predicative adjective [adjective|nominalized adjective] [[80]] [[81]] [(grammar)|article] definite article indifinite article zero article [determiner] [determiner|possessive determiner] [(linguistics)|quantifier] [and postposition|adposition] preposition postposition circumposition [[82]] [noun|countable noun] [noun|uncountable noun] collective noun abstract noun concrete noun common noun [noun|proper noun] [[83]] [pronoun|personal pronoun] [pronoun|reflexive pronoun] [pronoun|reciprocal pronoun] [pronoun|relative pronoun] [[84]] [verb|impersonal verb] [verb|intransitive verb] [verb|transitive verb] [verb|ditransitive verb] tritransitive verb [verb|modal verb] [verb|reflexive verb] [verb|auxiliary verb] [verb|finite verb] [verb|nonfinite verb] [[85]] [[86]] [[87]]

[[88]] [phrase|adverbial phrase] [phrase|adjective phrase] [phrase|noun phrase] [phrase|adpositional phrase] [phrase|verb phrase] [[89]] argument clause adjuctive clause predicative clause [clause|dependent clause] [clause|independent clause] [(linguistics)|sentence] simple sentence compound sentence complex sentence compound–complex sentence declaritive sentence interrogative sentence exclamatory sentence imperative sentence instructive sentence major sentence minor sentence

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[[94]] [[95]] [[96]] [stop|period] [mark|exclamation mark] [mark|question mark] [(punctuation)|colon] [[97]] [mark|quotation mark] [[98]] [[99]] [[100]] [[101]] [[102]] [(punctuation)|slash] [[103]] round brackets curly brackets square brackets angle brackets [[104]] [(punctuation)|space] [[105]] [type] [[106]] [[107]] [[108]] [font] [encoding|character encoding] [[109]] [[110]] [(typography)|emphasis] [type|italic] bold [[111]]

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[category|grammatical category] [person|person] first person second person third person [(grammar)|subject] [(grammar)|object] [(linguistics)|argument] [(grammar)|adjunct] [(linguistics)|complement] [(linguistics)|valency] [(linguistics)|honorifics] [gender|gender] masculine feminine neuter animate inanimate [case|case] [case|nominative case] [case|accusative case] [case|dative case] [case|ablative case] [case|genitive case] [case|vocative case] [case|locative case] [case|instrumental case] [case|oblique case] [tense|tense] [tense|past tense] [tense|present tense] [tense|future tense] [aspect|aspect] simple aspect [and progressive aspects|progressive aspect & continous aspect] [(grammar)|perfect aspect] [aspect|prospective aspect] [mood|mood] [mood|realis mood] indicative mood energenic mood [mood|irrealis mood] [mood|subjunctive mood] [mood|conditional mood] [mood|optative mood] [mood|imperative mood] [mood] [mood|jussive mood] potential mood [mood|desiderative mood] [(grammar)|voice] [voice|active voice] [voice|passive voice] [[113]] [conjugation|conjugation] [[114]] [(grammar)|comparison] positive [[115]] superlative [and negation|polarity] affirmation negation [number|number] singular [[116]] [[117]] [[118]] [[119]] [& comment] [verb construction|serial verb construction]

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[typology|linguistic typology] [order|word order] [language|analystic language] [language|isolating language] [language|synthetic language] [language|fusional language] [language|agglutinative language] [language|polysynthetic language] [family] [continuum] [isolate] [[124]] [language]

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[relativity|linguistic relativity]

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[Stone|Rosetta Stone]

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* sonorant also includes vowels.

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