ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

linguistic

Linguistics is the scientific study of language. It looks at how languages around the world are different and how they are the same. It looks at why people might use the same word for different things, and why some languages are easier to learn than others. It looks at how languages change over time, and how people learn to use them. Linguistics helps us understand how people communicate and how we can use language to make our lives better.