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Language documentation
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Language documentation is the process by which a language is described in terms of its linguistics and its collected oral and textual literatures. Language documentation seeks to create as thorough a record as possible of the speech community for both posterity and language revitalization.
Typical steps involve the creation of a dictionary and grammar of the language.
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Language documentation, as a task within linguistics, may be divided into separate areas of specialization, including:
- Phonetics, the study of the sounds of human language
- Phonology, the study of the sound system of a language
- Morphology, the study of the internal structure of words
- Syntax, the study of how words combine to form grammatical sentences
- Semantics, the study of the meaning of words (lexical semantics), and how these combine to form the meanings of sentences
- Historical linguistics, the study of languages whose historical relations are recognizable through similarities in vocabulary, word formation, and syntax
- Pragmatics, the study of how language is used by its speakers
- Stylistics, the study of style in languages
- Descriptive linguistics
- Syntax
- Orthography
- Lexicography
- Lexicology
- Phonetics
- Phonology
- Pragmatics
- Semantics
- Etymology
- Anthropological linguistics
- Writing systems
- International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), a system used to write down and reproduce the sounds of human speech.
- DOBES
- SIL International