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Is French agglutinative?
French does have a fairly fusional tense system, but with subject agreement on French verbs, it is largely just a written phenomenon. German is considered fusional by Wikipedia, but I would argue it has a lot of agglutinative features for a fusional language.
What is the most polysynthetic language?
Polysynthetic languages are most commonly found among the indigenous languages of North America. Only a few such languages have more than 100k speakers: Nahuatl (1.5m speakers), Navajo (170k speakers), and Cree (110k speakers).
Is Basque Polysynthetic?
(Turkish probably would come out somewhere near Basque in this respect – it is equally non-fusional (or maybe more so), but may realize fewer categories through synthetic morphology and lacks the kind of recursivity mechanism just mentioned.) All in all, then, Basque is more polysynthetic than Latin.
How does a agglutinative language work?
In linguistics, agglutination is a morphological process in which words are formed by stringing together morphemes which each correspond to a single syntactic feature. Languages that use agglutination widely are called agglutinative languages.
Is Turkish polysynthetic?
Languages with a lot of inflections are called Synthetic languages. Their inflection may be either agglutinative or fusional. Turkish is an example of an agglutinative synthetic language. Latin is an example of a fusional synthetic language.
Are pidgins Polysynthetic?
No pidgin is polysynthetic and only the “semi-Pidgin” languages of LiNgala and Shaba Swahili approach anything close to the synthetic type (Knappert 1979; de Rooij 1995). The categorization of pidgins is slippery on several fronts.
Is Inuktitut Polysynthetic?
Examples of affixally polysynthetic languages include Inuktitut, Cherokee, Athabaskan languages, the Chimakuan languages (Quileute) and the Wakashan languages.
Is Mohawk Polysynthetic?
Mohawk is a language of the Iroquoian family of northeastern North America, spoken in Quebec, Ontario, and New York State. Like other Iroquoian languages, it is polysynthetic: words, particularly verbs, can consist of many meaningful parts (morphemes).