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1712Isolating languages  

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  • An isolating language is a type of language with a very low morpheme per word ratio and no inflectional morphology whatsoever. In the extreme case, each word contains a single morpheme. Currently, the most spoken purely-isolating language is Yoruba.

SOURCE

  • Fromkin, Rodman & Hyams 2008
  • Song 2018

CONTRIBUTOR

  • Katsiadakis Helen (AA)

CREATOR

  • Karasimos Athanasios (AA)

NOTATION

  • 1712

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