Flamencology, from the Spanish word Flamencología, is an academic discipline pertaining to the Flamenco arts.
The Real Academia Española included the term in a revision of the Spanish dictionary through the efforts of the Granadine writer Luis Rosales.
The extent to which the discipline is practiced varies on the growth of general knowledge of the Flamenco arts.
The e has become more formal and taken root outside of Spain, wherever the art is cultivated to the point that documentation can be performed on relevant topics related to respective regions.
Countries such as Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, and Mexico have reached this point with Chilean writers contributing to Flamenco publications in Spain and Chile and in Mexico with the creation of the Instituto Mexicano de Flamencología.