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Conlangery #47: Practicum — Isolating and Analytic Languages

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What Is the Difference Between Isolating and Analytical Languages?

An analytic language is one where grammatical relationships are conveyed by word order and isolating language, which has only single morphemes per word. So for example, Burmese is listed as an isolating language but it has case marking particles rather than case endings. English is a very analytic language, but it's not isolating because we have lots of multi-morphing words. But you can do things with isolation and analytic languages that are very different from English too.

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