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7 identifiers linking isolating language across the web's reference databases
14 statements · 7% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
7 identifiers linking isolating language across the web's reference databases
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An isolating language is a type of language with a morpheme per word ratio close to one, and with no inflectional morphology whatsoever. In the extreme case, each word contains a single morpheme. Examples of widely spoken isolating languages are Yoruba in West Africa and Vietnamese in Southeast Asia.