philology

/fษชหˆlษ’lษ™dส’ษช/
noun
  1. 1

    The humanistic study of historical linguistics.

  2. 2

    Love and study of learning and literature, broadly speaking.

  3. 3

    (culture) Scholarship and culture, particularly classical, literary and linguistic.

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/philology