Glottogonist

//ɡlɒˈtɒɡənɪst// adj, noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    One who studies glottogony.

    "The sixteenth century saw the emergence of the first European glottogonists, scholars who study the origin of language."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Related to glottogony. not-comparable

    "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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