ABSTRACT
The bonds between the science of human language and other sciences devoted specifically to man are very obvious. In particular, linguistics, the study of language, and anthropology, the study of human culture as a whole, must be closely involved in each other's interests. The specific study of the interdisciplinary links, both theoretical and practical, between anthropology and linguistics has been called ethno linguistics. Work among such languages, where there is a total absence of written records, and an almost total absence of prior scholarship, is known, appropriately, as anthropological linguistics. The importance of linguistic studies to the language teacher engaged in teaching languages of international importance is obvious; but the linguist's field is all language and every language, and he hopes to learn more about language itself, and about the relations between languages and between language and life, and to make progress in the development of linguistic theory and linguistic techniques, from every individual language he studies.
