phonology

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When designing the phonology of the Yautja language, Watkins took into account the aliens’ physiology.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2025

"If you think of Sindarin - one of the two main Elvish languages - it's very much based on the phonology and grammar, at points, of Welsh," she said.

From BBC • Jan. 4, 2025

By the end of last year, her first full school year teaching this method, Hurt said 80% of her first-grade class had aced a phonology test — nothing she’d seen before in previous years.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 17, 2022

Simlish’s distinctive sounds, which Kauker likens to a Midwestern-Latin hybrid, comprise its phonetics and phonology.

From The Verge • Feb. 7, 2020

Whether it be called linguistique, glottology, phonology, or even, by a too common abuse, comparative philology, the science of language follows the same method as the other natural sciences, and advances by observation and experience.

From Basque Legends With an Essay on the Basque Language by Webster, Wentworth