glottogonist

noun
/ɡlɒˈtɒɡənɪst/

Definitions

  1. One who studies glottogony.

    • The sixteenth century saw the emergence of the first European glottogonists, scholars who study the origin of language.
  2. Related to glottogony.

    • What ultimately doomed these early glottogonist speculations was that they all took on the impossible task of arguing for a single origin of all aspects of language.

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