phonology

English

Etymology

From phono- +‎ -logy.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fəˈnɒl.ə.d͡ʒi/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /fəˈnɑl.ə.d͡ʒi/

Noun

phonology (countable and uncountable, plural phonologies)

1. (linguistics, uncountable) The study of the way sounds function in languages, including phonemes, syllable structure, stress, accent, intonation, and which sounds are distinctive units within a language.
2. (linguistics, countable) The way sounds function within a given language; a phonological system.
   • 1856, Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia, Mission Press, page 16:

     The Achean, the ancient Malayu and other mixed phonologies possessing a considerable degree of harshness, were thus formed.

   • 1997, Jacek Fisiak, Trends in Linguistics: Studies in Middle English Linguistics →ISBN, Walter de Gruyter, page 545:

     Crucially, the neat separateness of phonologies which my account seems to imply is an abstraction and does not mean that the phonologies represented different regional or social dialects.

   • 2005, Charles W. Kreidler, Phonology, page 219:

     Thus, underlying ‘agtus’ was converted first into ‘āgtus’ by the vowel lengthening rule, and then into ‘āktus’ by the ancient persistent rule. This example has previously been interpreted as indicating that new rules can enter a phonology elsewhere than at depth I.

Synonyms

• (study of pronunciation): orthoepy, soundlore

Hypernyms

• linguistics, phonetics

Derived terms

• phonologic
• phonological
• phonologically
• phonologist
• sociophonology

 

Translations

subfield of linguistics concerned with the way sounds function in languages

• Albanian: fonologji (sq) f
• Arabic: فُونُولُوجِيَّا‎ f (funulujiyyā), عِلْمُ ٱلْأَصْوَاتِ ٱللُّغَوِيَّةِ‎ m (ʕilmu l-ʔaṣwāti l-luḡawiyyati), نُطْقِيَّات‎ f pl (nuṭqiyyāt), اَلتَّصْرِيفُ ٱلصَّوْتِيُّ‎ m (at-taṣrīfu ṣ-ṣawtiyyu)
• Armenian: հնչույթաբանություն (hy) (hnčʿuytʿabanutʿyun)
• Asturian: fonoloxía f
• Azerbaijani: fonologiya
• Belarusian: фанало́гія f (fanalóhija)
• Bengali: ধ্বনিতত্ত্ব (dhbonitottwo)
• Bulgarian: фоноло́гия f (fonológija)
• Catalan: fonologia f
• Cebuano: ponolohiya
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 音韻學／音韵学 (zh) (yīnyùnxué), 音位學／音位学 (zh) (yīnwèixué), 音系學／音系学 (zh) (yīnxìxué)

• Czech: fonologie f
• Danish: fonologi (da) c
• Dutch: klankleer (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: fonologio
• Estonian: fonoloogia
• Extremaduran: fonolohia f
• Faroese: ljóðskipanarlæra
• Finnish: fonologia (fi)
• French: phonologie (fr) f
• Friulian: fonologjie f
• Galician: fonoloxía (gl) f
• Georgian: ფონოლოგია (ponologia)
• German: Phonologie (de) f, Phonemik (de) f
• Greek: φωνολογία (el) f (fonología)
• Hindi: स्वनिमविज्ञान m (svanimvigyān), ध्वनित (hi) (dhvanit)
• Hungarian: fonológia (hu)
• Icelandic: hljóðkerfisfræði f
• Indonesian: fonologi (id)
• Interlingua: phonologia
• Irish: fóineolaíocht f, foghareolaíocht f
• Italian: fonologia (it) f
• Japanese: 音韻論 (ja) (おんいんろん, on'inron), 音韻学 (おんいんがく, on'ingaku)
• Kazakh: фонология (fonologiä)
• Khmer: សូរវិទ្យា (so vi tyea)
• Korean: 음운론 (ko) (eumullon), 어음학 (eo'eumhak)
• Kyrgyz: фонология (fonologiya)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: phonologia f
• Latvian: fonoloģija f
• Lithuanian: fonologija f
• Macedonian: фоноло́гија f (fonológija)
• Malay: fonologi (ms)
• Mongolian: фонологи (fonologi), авиалбар судлал (avialbar sudlal), авиалбарзүй (avialbarzüj) (phonemics)
• Norwegian Bokmål: fonologi m
• Occitan: fonologia f
• Persian: واج‌شناسی‎ (vâj-šenâsi)
• Polish: fonologia (pl) f
• Portuguese: fonologia (pt) f
• Romanian: fonologie (ro) f
• Russian: фоноло́гия (ru) f (fonológija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: фоноло̀гија f

  Roman: fonològija (sh) f

• Sindhi: وايوڀياسُ‎ (sd) m (Viobhiyaasu)
• Slovak: fonológia (sk) f
• Slovene: fonologija f
• Spanish: fonología (es) f
• Swahili: fonolojia
• Swedish: fonologi (sv) c
• Tagalog: tinigan, dalubtinigan, ponolohiya
• Tamil: ஒலியனியல் (ta) (oliyaṉiyal)
• Thai: สัทวิทยา (th) (sàt wít-tá-yaa), สรวิทยา (sŏn wít-tá-yaa)
• Tibetan: སྒྲ་སྦྱོར་རིག་པ (sgra sbyor rig pa)
• Turkish: sesbilim (tr), fonoloji (tr)
• Ukrainian: фоноло́гія f (fonolóhija)
• Urdu: صوتیات‎ (sautiyāt)
• Uzbek: fonologiya (uz)
• Vietnamese: âm vị học (vi)
• Welsh: ffonoleg f
• Yiddish: פֿאָנאָלאָגיע‎ f (fonologye)
• Yoruba: fonọ́lọ́jì

way sounds function within a given language

• Cebuano: ponolohiya
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 音系 (zh) (yīnxì)

• Danish: lydsystem n
• Finnish: fonologia (fi)
• Galician: fonoloxía (gl) f
• Georgian: ფონოლოგია (ponologia), ფონეტიკა (poneṭiḳa)
• Portuguese: fonologia (pt) f
• Russian: фоне́тика (ru) f (fonɛ́tika), фоноло́гия (ru) f (fonológija)
• Swahili: fonolojia
• Tagalog: tinigan

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 음운 조직, ^{(please verify)} 음성 (ko) ^{(please verify)} 음성학 (ko)

See also

• tonology