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[http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Isolating+language&lemmacode=698 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics] | [http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Isolating+language&lemmacode=698 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics] | ||
Latest revision as of 20:31, 4 July 2014
An isolating (or 'analytic') language is defined as one in which all words are invariable. Isolating language is a traditional term used for languages in which there is very little (overt) morphology. Separate grammatical concepts or functions tend to be conveyed by separate words and not by morphological processes. Chinese and Vietnamese are isolating languages.
Example
Chinese is often cited as a well-known example of the isolating type of language.
Other languages
Chinese 孤立语
German isolierende Sprachen
Reference
Lyons, John. 1968. Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
