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Conlangery #89: Polysynthesis

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Does Eskimo Inuit Have Noun Incorporation?

There are probably some languages that count as having a noun incorporation of various kinds that aren't polysynthetic. You can't actually have a noun incorporating isolating language which presents and stuff and funny word order things. Yeah it's noun incorporation really from what I understand. It's just that you have some particular way of putting a noun into the verb in some sort of ways. So there's a little bit of debate about that.

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