👉 Typtology is a concept in linguistics and philosophy that refers to the classification of languages based on their syntactic structures. It is named after the German philosopher Ferdinand de Saussure, who introduced it as a way to classify language into its various types. Typtologies are typically divided into two main categories: general or broad typtologies (such as English, French, and Spanish) and specific typtologies (such as German, Italian, or Russian). The distinction between these types