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 the first full year of teaching this way, Hurt said 80 percent of her class had aced a phonology test — a rate she hadn’t seen before.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 10, 2021

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