linguistic typology, polysynthetic languages, formerly holophrastic languages, are highly synthetic languages, i.e., languages in which words are composed...
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divisions include polysynthetic languages (most of them belonging to an agglutinative subtype, although Navajo and other Athabaskan languages are often classified...
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Polysynthetic languages are said to be a form of extreme agglutination, which allows single words to carry the same information that another language...
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polysynthetic language, is also the only member of the Southern Iroquoian family, and it uses a unique syllabary writing system. As a polysynthetic language...
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accurately accounts for both polysynthetic languages and non-polysynthetic languages. He asserts that the polysynthetic languages must conform to a syntactic...
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fusional, agglutinative, and polysynthetic, which are based on how the morphemes are combined. Although historically, languages were divided into three basic...
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Incorporation (linguistics) (category Articles containing Chinese-language text)
2009), and the presence of incorporation does not imply that the language is polysynthetic. Although incorporation does not occur regularly, English uses...
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languages still being frequently learned by children. Traditional Tiwi, spoken by people over the age of fifty by 2005, is a polysynthetic language....
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counterparts (also phonemic). Pawnee is an ergative-absolutive polysynthetic language. The Pawnee alphabet[citation needed] has 9 consonants and 8 vowels...
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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...
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Greenlandic is a polysynthetic language that allows the creation of long words by stringing together roots and suffixes. The language's morphosyntactic...
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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...
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generally considered polysynthetic, its morpheme-to-word ratio being somewhat lower than a prototypical polysynthetic language (e.g., Yup'ik). The morphosyntactic...
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"kaig" - to be hungry, and always end with a pronoun. Yupik is a polysynthetic language that can have analytic alternatives; speakers can express similar...
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Nahuatl (redirect from Nahuatl+languages+language)
consider them to have ceased to be polysynthetic. Many Nahuatl words have been borrowed into the Spanish language, most of which are terms designating...
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Inflection (category Articles containing Scottish Gaelic-language text)
word (such as many Native American languages) are called polysynthetic languages. Languages in which each inflection conveys only a single grammatical...
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Agglutinative language and Polysynthetic language) All Inuit words begin with a root morpheme to which other morphemes are suffixed. The language has hundreds of...
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difficult to extract. A further subcategory of agglutinative languages are polysynthetic languages, which take agglutination to a higher level by constructing...
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the source used. Like the other Algonquian languages, Blackfoot is considered to be a polysynthetic language due to its large morpheme inventory and word...
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consonants. The Iroquoian languages are polysynthetic and head-marking. As of 2020, almost all surviving Iroquoian languages are severely or critically...
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to the order of independent words. Central Siberian Yupik is a polysynthetic language, meaning it is made up of long, structured words containing many...
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according to a 2015 census, although the number is decreasing. It is a polysynthetic language with rather free word ordering. Shawnee is severely threatened,...
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the stem; 3. avoid schwas. Chukchi is a largely polysynthetic, agglutinative, direct-inverse language and has ergative–absolutive alignment. It also has...
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the Algonquian language family. Like all other Algonquian languages, it has complex agglutinative polysynthetic morphology. This language is considered...
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house-plural-your-from. The languages that rely on morphology to the greatest extent are traditionally called polysynthetic languages. They may express the...
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Yanomaman languages are SOV, suffixing, predominantly head-marking with elements of dependent-marking. Its typology is highly polysynthetic. Adjectival...
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placing tia'm ('moose') earlier in the utterance. Miꞌkmaq, as a polysynthetic language, has verbs which usually contain the sentence's subject and object:...
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Inuktitut (redirect from Inuktitut (language))
things that, in languages like English, would require several words to express. (See also: Agglutinative language and Polysynthetic language.) All words begin...
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La Pampa is closer to the northern dialect group. Mapuche is a polysynthetic language with noun incorporation and root composition. Broadly speaking this...
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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: "......
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