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Not to be confused with language isolate.
An
isolating language is any
language where the vast majority of
morphemes are
free morphemes and are considered to be full-fledged "
words", rather than
particles that are
agglutinated, or in other words, a language in which the significant majority of words consist of a single morpheme.
The degree of isolation is defined by the
morphemes-per-word ratio. By contrast, in a
synthetic language, words are composed of agglutinated or fused morphemes that denote their syntactic meanings. The converse of a highly isolating language is a highly
polysynthetic language.
Isolating languages are common in Southeast Asia, and examples are
Vietnamese, and classical Chinese (as distinct from modern Chinese languages).
While isolating languages tend to also be
analytic languages, the two shouldn't be confused
, although the terms are sometimes uses interchangeably
.
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