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Concept
Isolating Language
An
isolating language
is characterized by a
low morpheme-per-word ratio
, meaning words are typically composed of a single morpheme and
grammatical relationships
are expressed through
word order
and
auxiliary words
rather than inflection. This
linguistic typology
contrasts with agglutinative and
fusional languages
, where words often contain
multiple morphemes
that convey
grammatical information
.
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Linguistics 70%
General Linguistics 30%
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