• linguistic typology, polysynthetic languages, formerly holophrastic languages, are highly synthetic languages, i.e., languages in which words are composed...
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  • fusional languages favoring the former and agglutinative languages the latter subtype of word synthesis. Further divisions include polysynthetic languages (most...
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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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  • from polysynthetic languages, which can combine numerous morphemes into single words with complex meanings. Examples of agglutinative languages include...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    Tupi is not a polysynthetic language.[citation needed] Tupi parts of speech did not follow the same conventions of Indo-European languages: Verbs are "conjugated"...
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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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    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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    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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    the Algonquian language family. Like all other Algonquian languages, it has complex agglutinative polysynthetic morphology. This language is considered...
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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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    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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  • Alliklik.: 126  Ventureño is, like its sister Chumashan languages, a polysynthetic language, having larger words composed of a number of morphemes. Ventureño...
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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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  • Thumbnail for Wichita language
    syllables are more commonly CV or CVC. Wichita is an agglutinative, polysynthetic language, meaning words have a root verb basis to which information is added;...
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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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    counterparts (also phonemic). Pawnee is an ergative-absolutive polysynthetic language. The Pawnee alphabet has nine consonants and eight vowels. The letters...
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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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    nineteenth century, the language had at least two dialects in the past. As for its morphological typology, it has polysynthetic and incorporative features...
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    according to a 2015 census, although the number is decreasing. It is a polysynthetic language that is described as having freedom in word ordering. Shawnee is...
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  • intelligible with the Lakota language. Dakota, similar to many Native American languages, is a mainly polysynthetic language, meaning that different morphemes...
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    an agglutinative language, but sound change has led to a certain degree of fusion. It is sometimes considered a polysynthetic language because of its complex...
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    means gender must be learned along with the noun. As is common in polysynthetic languages, a Cree word can be very long, and express something that takes...
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  • Longest words (category Articles with Basque-language sources (eu))
    language depends on the word formation rules of each specific language, and on the types of words allowed for consideration. Agglutinative languages allow...
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