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Isolating language — In morphological typology (in linguistics), an isolating language (also analytic language) is any language in which words are composed of a single morpheme. This is in contrast to a synthetic language which can have words composed of multiple… … Wikipedia
isolating language — /ˌaɪsəleɪtɪŋ ˈlæŋgwɪdʒ/ (say .uysuhlayting langgwij) noun a language which uses few or no bound forms …
language — /lang gwij/, n. 1. a body of words and the systems for their use common to a people who are of the same community or nation, the same geographical area, or the same cultural tradition: the two languages of Belgium; a Bantu language; the French… … Universalium
Language deprivation experiments — have been attempted several times through history, isolating infants from the normal use of spoken or signed language in an attempt to discover the fundamental character of human nature or the origins of language. The American literary scholar… … Wikipedia
language — n. linguistic system of communication 1) to use a language 2) to plan; standardize a language 3) to learn, master a language 4) to speak (in) a language 5) to butcher, murder; enrich; purify a language 6) (the) spoken; written language 7) one s… … Combinatory dictionary
language — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) System of communication Nouns 1. language, tongue, lingo, vernacular, mother tongue, protolanguage; living or dead language; idiom, parlance, phraseology; wording; dialect, patois, cant, jargon, lingo,… … English dictionary for students
Tahitian language — language name=Tahitian nativename=Reo Tahiti Reo Mā ohi familycolor=Austronesian states=French Polynesia speakers=120,000 fam2=Malayo Polynesian(MP) fam3=Central Eastern MP fam4=Eastern MP fam5=Oceanic fam6=Central Eastern Oceanic fam7=Remote… … Wikipedia
Goemai language — language name=Goemai states=Nigeria region=Plateau State speakers=200,000 familycolor=Afro Asiatic fam1=Afro Asiatic fam2=Chadic fam3=West Chadic fam4=West Chadic A fam5=Angas Gerka (A3) fam6=Angas Goemai fam7=Southern iso2=afa|iso3=ankGoemai is… … Wikipedia
language — Synonyms and related words: Abnaki, Afghan, Afghani, Afrikaans, Afro Asiatic, Ainu, Akan, Akkadian, Albanian, Aleut, Algonquian, Algonquin, Amharic, Anatolian, Anatolic, Andaman, Annamese, Anzanite, Apache, Arabic, Aramaic, Araucanian, Arawak,… … Moby Thesaurus
isolating — /uy seuh lay ting, is euh /, adj. Ling. pertaining to or noting a language, as Vietnamese, that uses few or no bound forms and in which grammatical relationships are indicated chiefly through word order. Cf. agglutinative (def. 2), inflectional… … Universalium
