UNESCO Thesaurus: hierarchical list

3.30 Linguistics

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Language policy

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NT1 Bilingualism

NT2 Multilingualism

UF Plurilingualism

NT1 Language barriers

NT1 Language minorities

NT1 Linguistic unification

Languages

Used For

UF Language types, Language varieties

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NT1 Dead languages

NT1 Disappearing languages

UF Endangered languages

NT1 Foreign languages

NT1 International languages

NT2 Esperanto

NT2 International auxiliary lingua

NT1 Modern languages

NT1 Mother tongue

NT1 National languages

NT1 Spoken language

NT2 Colloquial language

UF Jargon, Slang

NT3 Dialects

NT4 Creoles

NT1 Uncommonly taught languages

UF Less widely used languages

NT1 Unwritten languages

NT1 Vernacular languages

NT1 Written language

Lexicography

Used For

UF Dictionary making

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NT1 Terminology

UF Nomenclature

NT2 Communication terminology

NT2 Educational terminology

NT2 Scientific terminology

UF Technical terminology

NT1 Vocabularies

Linguistics

Used For

UF Descriptive linguistics, Linguistic theory

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NT1 Grammar

NT2 Morphology (linguistics)

NT2 Syntax

UF Syntactic analysis

NT1 Linguistic research

UF Linguistic analysis

NT2 Comparative linguistics

UF Synchronic linguistics

NT3 Etymology

NT3 Language change

NT2 Deciphering

NT1 Phonetics

UF Phonology, Pronunciation

NT1 Semantics

UF Semantic analysis

NT1 Spelling

UF Orthography

Psycholinguistics

Used For

UF Neurolinguistics

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NT1 Language behaviour

NT2 Speech habits

NT1 Language development

Semiology

Used For

UF Semiotics

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NT1 Symbolic languages

NT2 Signs

NT2 Symbols

Sociolinguistics

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NT1 Ethnolinguistics

Translation

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NT1 Interpreting

NT1 Translation services

NT1 Translators

UF Interpreters

Writing systems

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NT1 Abbreviations

NT2 Acronyms

NT1 Alphabets

UF Letters (alphabet)

NT1 Ancient scripts

UF Hieroglyphics, Ideographic scripts, Pictographic scripts

NT1 Braille

NT1 Shorthand

UF Stenography

NT1 Transcription

NT1 Transliteration

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