Glottology vs. Philology

Glottologynoun

The science of tongues or languages

Glottologynoun

The science of tongues or languages; comparative philology; glossology.

Philologynoun

(linguistics) The humanistic study of historical linguistics.

Philologynoun

(philosophy) Love and study of learning and literature, broadly speaking.

Philologynoun

(culture) Scholarship and culture, particularly classical, literary and linguistic.

Philologynoun

Criticism; grammatical learning.

Philologynoun

The study of language, especially in a philosophical manner and as a science; the investigation of the laws of human speech, the relation of different tongues to one another, and historical development of languages; linguistic science.

Philologynoun

A treatise on the science of language.

Philologynoun

the humanistic study of language and literature

Philology

Philology is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is more commonly defined as the study of literary texts as well as oral and written records, the establishment of their authenticity and their original form, and the determination of their meaning.