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Linguistics began with the analysis of Sanskrit and Tamil ; today it looks at individual languages and language in general.

It breaks language down and analyzes its component parts: theory, sounds and their meaning, utterance usage, word origins, the history of words, the meaning of words and word combinations, sentence construction, basic construction beyond the sentence level, stylistics, and conversation.

It examines the above using statistics and modeling, and semantics.

It analyzes language in context of anthropology, biology, evolution, geography, history, neurology, psychology, and sociology.

It also takes the applied approach, looking at individual language development and clinical issues.