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Typical steps involve recording, annotation and analysis, translation into a language of wider communication, archiving and dissemination.

Language documentation differs from Language Description which aims to describe a language's abstract system of structures and rules in the form of a grammar or dictionary.


TYPES OF LANGUAGE DESCRIPTION

Language description, 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



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ORGANIZATIONS INVOLVED IN LANGUAGE DOCUMENTATION