analytic language
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language that conveys grammatical relationships without using inflectional morphemes
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- Subclass of
- language
- Part of
- morphological typology
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- facet of
- morphological typology
- different from
- isolating language
- topic's main category
- Category:Analytic languages
- opposite of
- synthetic language
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An analytic language is a type of natural language that uses affixes very rarely but in which a series of root/stem words is accompanied by prepositions, postpositions, particles, and modifiers. This is opposed to synthetic languages, which synthesize many concepts into a single word, using affixes regularly.
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