Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

glottogonist

/ɡlɒˈtɒɡənɪst/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: glot-to-go-nist
IPA: /ɡlɒˈtɒɡənɪst/

14

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

One who studies glottogony.

adj

Related to glottogony.

Example Sentences

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

Inflected Forms

glottogonists (plural)

Questions

How do you pronounce glottogonist?: The recorded pronunciation is /ɡlɒˈtɒɡənɪst/.
What does glottogonist mean?: One who studies glottogony.

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