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phonology

branch of linguistics concerned with the systematic organization of sounds in languages
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Summary

phonology is a language subsystem[1]. phonology draws 3,743 Wikipedia views per month (language subsystem category, ranking #2 of 4).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: academic discipline[3], branch of linguistics[4]
  • Subclass of: linguistics[5]
  • Part of: linguistics[6]
  • Commons category: Phonology[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Phonology[8], Q10129525[9]
  • Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[10], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 6[12]
  • Topic has template: Template:Language phonologies[13]
  • Stack Exchange tag: https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/tags/phonology[14]
  • Different from: phonetics[15]
  • Is the study of: phoneme[16], phonological system[17]
  • Practiced by: phonologist[18]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[19]

Why It Matters

phonology has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20] phonology is known by 71 alternative names across languages and contexts.[21]

Related Entities

linguistics Morris Halle phonetics

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [20] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [21] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 3d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Isocat id → 1772
    Sitelink count → 124
    Wikipedia languages → ['ace', 'af', 'als', 'ar', 'as', 'ast', 'az', 'ba', 'ban', 'bcl', 'be', 'be_x_ol
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Isocat id: 1772, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/7327281|Phonology (#7327281)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/125|ISOCAT]] #mix'n'match"
  2. 17w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0212164-hlaskoslovi, h0001706-fonologie
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0001706-fonologie, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259599|batch #259599]]"
  3. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0212164-hlaskoslovi, h0001706-fonologie
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0212164-hlaskoslovi, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259495|batch #259495]]"
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