Concept information
Preferred term
1712Isolating languages
Broader concept
Scope note
- An isolating language is a type of language with a very low morpheme per word ratio and no inflectional morphology whatsoever. In the extreme case, each word contains a single morpheme. Currently, the most spoken purely-isolating language is Yoruba.
Source
- Fromkin, Rodman & Hyams 2008
- Song 2018
Contributor
- Katsiadakis Helen (AA)
Creator
- Karasimos Athanasios (AA)
Notation
- 1712
In other languages
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Greek
URI
https://humanitiesthesaurus.academyofathens.gr/dyas-resource/Concept/1712
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