Isolating

adj, verb

adj, verb ·4 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of isolate form-of, gerund, participle, present
Adjective
  1. 1
    Having low morpheme per word ratio and no inflectional morphemes.

    "As an isolating language Belter Creole is rich in particles. Particles are used to indicate both negation and interrogation: na is the negative particle and it is placed before the verb"

Adjective
  1. 1
    relating to or being a language in which each word typically expresses a distinct idea and part of speech and syntactical relations are determined almost exclusively by word order and particles wordnet

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"From a lexical point of view, Esperanto appears to be an Indo-European language, but structurally it is an isolating language, like Chinese."

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