Ancient Traditions in Linguistics Mainly

(a) The Semitic tradition, characterized by phonological disambiguation and alphabet creation As Robbins put it: "The invention of any writing that would provide a visual record of what was spoken and heard was a massive undertaking, often requiring generations of effort, to apply the analytical methods of linguistics to the solution of practical problems."

(b) The Greek tradition, characterized by morphological induction and logical syntax The first 10 centuries saw the transformation of the Phoenician alphabet into vowel-consonant letters.

(ii) The Greek tradition, characterized by morphological induction and logical syntax In the first 10 centuries, when the Phoenician alphabet was transformed into a vowel-consonant alphabet, the Greeks began to analyze the phonology of Greek by means of reference pairs; the etymology of the word grammar is alphabetic, and the history of the word grammatikos (to read and write) shows that the borrowing of letters and the use of scripts was a major part of the study of Greek. The history of the word grammatikos shows that the borrowing of letters and the use of writing were the beginning of the study of the Greek language.

(iii) Indian Tradition characterized by Morphological and Phonetic Analysis It is generally believed that the Indian tradition characterized by Morphological and Phonetic Analysis of Indian alphabets originated from the Aramaic alphabet and was borrowed around the eighth century or even earlier.

(4) Chinese Tradition Characterized by Semantic Interpretation and Acoustic Meaning Although the Chinese tradition characterized by semantic interpretation and acoustic meaning had already sprouted in the pre-Qin era, such as Laozi's "Dao-name", Confucius' "Zhen-name", the Famous Master's "Dialectical Name" and the "Names", it is not clear whether this tradition is the most important one, but it is the most important one. The Chinese tradition of budding linguistics, characterized by Laozi's "Dao Ming", Confucius' "Zheng Ming", the famous scholars' "Dialectical Names", and Xunzi's "Criminal Names", etc., had already taken on an exegetical form, but the achievements of Chinese linguistics as a discipline were highlighted by the four major linguistic masterpieces of the Qin and Han dynasties. Unlike the morphological changes faced by Western scholars, Chinese scholars were confronted with a language structure that tended to be rooted, and the semantics of real words and the functions of imaginary words became the focus of research.