Language is one of the most fundamental human instincts.
It is an extraordinarily intricate system that all of us master as young children without special teaching, and that gives us the ability to communicate, tell stories, and express our deepest feelings. Linguistics is the study of this human language. It is concerned with describing languages and with understanding our knowledge of language as speakers and how we come to have that knowledge. Linguistics is inherently interdisciplinary, with connections to other fields of study such as psychology, anthropology, sociology, biology, physics, mathematics, computer science, philosophy, and literature. This site indexes World Wide Web pages pertaining to Linguistics and its subfields.