Synthetic language

A synthetic language, in linguistic typology, is a language with a high morpheme-to-word ratio. This linguistic classification is largely independent of morpheme-usage classifications (such as inflectional, agglutinative, etc.) although there is a common tendency for agglutinative languages to exhibit synthetic properties.

Related Topics:
Linguistic typology - Language - Morpheme - Word - Inflectional - Agglutinative

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