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Typical steps involve the creation of a dictionary and grammar of the language.


TYPES OF LANGUAGE DOCUMENTATION

Language documentation, as a task within linguistics, may be divided into separte areas of specialization, including:
  • Phonetics , the study of the sounds of human language

  • Phonology (or phonemics), the study of patterns of a language's basic sounds

  • 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

  • Stylistics , the study of style in languages




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ORGANIZATIONS INVOLVED IN LANGUAGE DOCUMENTATION