Thesaurus:isolating language

English

Noun

Sense: language with the number of morphemes per word close to one

Synonyms
  • isolating language
Hypernyms
Instances
Various

Notes

  • Wikidata ranks isolating language as a subclass of analytic language, unsourced. By contrast, Britannica says an isolating language tends to be analytic, not a strict hyponymy. The hyponymy hypothesis seems plausible given the definitions, and English would be analytic but not isolating language, upon narrow reading of the terms.

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