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TankHughes commented on the word glottonaut
Proposed word from linguisten.de Tumblr account:
:A glottonaut is someone exploring languages without necessarily acquiring them (thereby becoming a polyglot). Most people doing linguistic typology can be considered glottonauts."
October 12, 2016