linguistic typology, polysynthetic languages, formerly holophrastic languages, are highly synthetic languages, i.e., languages in which words are composed...

divisions include polysynthetic languages (most of them belonging to an agglutinative subtype, although Navajo and other Athabaskan languages are often classified...

Polysynthetic languages are said to be a form of extreme agglutination, which allows single words to carry the same information that another language...

polysynthetic language, is also the only member of the Southern Iroquoian family, and it uses a unique syllabary writing system. As a polysynthetic language...

fusional, agglutinative, and polysynthetic, which are based on how the morphemes are combined. Although historically, languages were divided into three basic...

accurately accounts for both polysynthetic languages and non-polysynthetic languages. He asserts that the polysynthetic languages must conform to a syntactic...

languages still being frequently learned by children. Traditional Tiwi, spoken by people over the age of fifty by 2005, is a polysynthetic language....

2009), and the presence of incorporation does not imply that the language is polysynthetic. Although incorporation does not occur regularly, English uses...

counterparts (also phonemic). Pawnee is an ergative-absolutive polysynthetic language. The Pawnee alphabet[citation needed] has 9 consonants and 8 vowels...

Greenlandic is a polysynthetic language that allows the creation of long words by stringing together roots and suffixes. The language's morphosyntactic...

Navajo is either classified as a fusional agglutinative or even polysynthetic language, as it shows mechanisms from all three. In terms of basic word order...

generally considered polysynthetic, its morpheme-to-word ratio being somewhat lower than a prototypical polysynthetic language (e.g., Yup'ik). The morphosyntactic...

protolanguage. Aymara is an agglutinating and, to a certain extent, a polysynthetic language. It has a subject–object–verb word order. It is based on a three-valued...

"kaig" - to be hungry, and always end with a pronoun. Yupik is a polysynthetic language that can have analytic alternatives; speakers can express similar...

consider them to have ceased to be polysynthetic. Many Nahuatl words have been borrowed into the Spanish language, most of which are terms designating...

word (such as many Native American languages) are called polysynthetic languages. Languages in which each inflection conveys only a single grammatical...

difficult to extract. A further subcategory of agglutinative languages are polysynthetic languages, which take agglutination to a higher level by constructing...

Agglutinative language and Polysynthetic language) All Inuit words begin with a root morpheme to which other morphemes are suffixed. The language has hundreds of...

the source used. Like the other Algonquian languages, Blackfoot is considered to be a polysynthetic language due to its large morpheme inventory and word...

consonants. The Iroquoian languages are polysynthetic and head-marking. As of 2020, almost all surviving Iroquoian languages are severely or critically...

to the order of independent words. Central Siberian Yupik is a polysynthetic language, meaning it is made up of long, structured words containing many...

according to a 2015 census, although the number is decreasing. It is a polysynthetic language with rather free word ordering. Shawnee is severely threatened,...

the stem; 3. avoid schwas. Chukchi is a largely polysynthetic, agglutinative, direct-inverse language and has ergative–absolutive alignment. It also has...

the Algonquian language family. Like all other Algonquian languages, it has complex agglutinative polysynthetic morphology. This language is considered...

house-plural-your-from. The languages that rely on morphology to the greatest extent are traditionally called polysynthetic languages. They may express the...

Yanomaman languages are SOV, suffixing, predominantly head-marking with elements of dependent-marking. Its typology is highly polysynthetic. Adjectival...

placing tia'm ('moose') earlier in the utterance. Miꞌkmaq, as a polysynthetic language, has verbs which usually contain the sentence's subject and object:...

La Pampa is closer to the northern dialect group. Mapuche is a polysynthetic language with noun incorporation and root composition. Broadly speaking this...

are notated only on the first letter in the digraph. Karuk is a polysynthetic language known for its method of arranging old and new information: "......

things that, in languages like English, would require several words to express. (See also: Agglutinative language and Polysynthetic language.) All words begin...