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What term describes a language structure where entire sentences can be expressed as a single complex word, as seen in Inuktitut?
Answer
Polysynthetic
Polysynthetic languages like Inuktitut combine many morphemes into a single word to express what other languages convey in full sentences. This structure allows words to grow extremely long, sometimes exceeding 100 letters, encoding subject, object, verb, and modifiers all at once.
💡 Did you know?
The Inuit language Inuktitut uses a polysynthetic structure where entire sentences compress into single words up to 100 letters long.
Other options people guess
- Agglutinative
- Isolating
- Inflectional
Topics
- linguistics
- inuktitut
- language-structure
- morphology
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