An isolating language is a type of language with a low morpheme-per-word ratio – in the extreme case of an isolating language, each word contains a single morpheme. A closely related concept is the analytic language, which in the extreme case does not use any inflections to indicate grammatical relationships (but which may still form compound wo...
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a language in which each word form consists typically of a single morpheme. Examples are Classical Chinese (to a far greater extent than the modern ... [2 related articles]
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In now obsolete language studies, linguists used the label 'isolating' to refer to a language with w
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A language type where individual words do not vary in form and where grammatical categories and relations are indicated by separate words and/or by word-order. English is fairly isolating; Chinese much more so.
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