Isolating Languages They are analytical languages that are extremely so analytical in their nature that words are made up of single morphemes, tense and agreement affixes are not morphologically marked on verbs and nouns and they have one meaning to each word. It is in this sense for example that we can describe Yoruba as an isolating language because it has no grammatical affixes but English as analytical but not isolating. In order words, Yoruba is analytical and isolating as a language but English is only analytical, it is not isolating. Remember that we said at the beginning that there is no language that is fully under one classification; every language has some mixture of the features of other morphological typologies.
Isolating Languages They are analytical languages that are extremely so analytical in their nature that words are made up of single morphemes, tense and agreement affixes are not morphologically marked on verbs and nouns and they have one meaning to each word. It is in this sense for example that we can describe Yoruba as an isolating language because it has no grammatical affixes but English as analytical but not isolating. In order words, Yoruba is analytical and isolating as a language but English is only analytical, it is not isolating. Remember that we said at the beginning that there is no language that is fully under one classification; every language has some mixture of the features of other morphological typologies.
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