isolating language
Sign in to savelanguage with a very low morpheme per word ratio
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Vinony's link graph records 125 inbound references to isolating language, and connects out to inflection, fusional language and synthetic language.
It is catalogued under the topic Isolating languages.
Vinony links it to 43 Wikipedia language editions.
Described at
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- analytic language
- Part of
- morphological typology
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- topic's main category
- Category:Isolating languages
- described at URL
- www.sorosoro.org/en/2015/09/isolating-language
- opposite of
- incorporation
- different from
- analytic language
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Encyclopedic overview
An isolating language is a type of language with a morpheme per word ratio close to one, and with no inflectional morphology whatsoever. In the extreme case, each word contains a single morpheme. Examples of widely spoken isolating languages are Yoruba in West Africa and Vietnamese (especially its colloquial register) in Southeast Asia.
A closely related concept is that of an analytic language, which uses unbound morphemes or syntactical constructions to indicate grammatical relationships. Isolating and analytic languages tend to overlap in linguistic scholarship.
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