This canine is doggone smart.

Eighteen-month-old Stella already knows 29 words — and she is even stringing them into sentences.

Speech-language pathologist Christina Hunger decided to combine her love for her Catahoula and Blue Heeler mix and her passion for augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) devices by finding a way to give her dog a voice, People first reported.

To do this, the 26-year-old San Diegan set up a button board when Stella was 8 weeks old for the pooch to interact with and express herself. When pressed, the buttons play recordings of words like “beach,” “ball” and “happy.”

“Stella often tells us a two-step sequence of what she wants to do,” Hunger captions a video on Instagram, which she uses alongside her blog to document Stella’s progress. For example, some mornings Stella gets hungry first thing, and other mornings she wants to go outside before chowing down. “This morning Stella told us ‘Come eat play,’ ” signifying she wanted to eat first and then play, Hunger writes.

One button on the 50-pound pup’s soundboard says “Jake,” the name of Hunger’s fiancé. Once, Stella tapped “want,” “Jake” and “come” before waiting by the door until Jake came home and gave her belly rubs.

“I’m in constant amazement and shock,” Hunger tells People. “Every day she says something cooler than she said the day before.”

When Hunger’s not teaching Stella to speak, she’s helping 1- and 2-year-old children, many of whom also use devices to assist their learning.

“The way she uses words to communicate and the words she’s combining is really similar to a 2-year-old child,” Hunger tells People. The experiment with Stella gives Hunger hope that other dogs can also learn to more clearly communicate with people.

“I think how important dogs are to their humans,” Hunger says. “I just imagine how much deeper the bond will be.”