Chapter 1: Introduction Flashcards
1
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Languages family
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A language family is a group of languages that can be shown to be genealogically related to one another
2
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What is language isolate
A
A language which has no relatives
3
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Isolating
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Barely no affixes
4
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Agglutinative
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Many affixes that each generally express only a single meaning
5
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Fusional
A
Affixes that can express multiple meanings
6
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Polysynthetic
A
A single word may express a whole sentence
