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General characteristics of the grammatical structure of language.…
General characteristics of the grammatical structure of language. Analytical and synthetic languages
Analytical Languages
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Examples: Mandarin Chinese, Vietnamese.
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Inflectional Affixes: Grammatical information is expressed through inflectional affixes within single words.
Grammatical Gender: Some fusional languages feature grammatical gender, where nouns are assigned gender categories.
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Examples: Latin, Spanish.
Synthetic Languages:
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Examples: Japanese, Turkish, Swahili.
Polysynthetic Languages:
Highly synthetic languages where entire sentences or phrases can be incorporated into a single word.
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Examples: Inuktitut, Mohawk, Greenlandic.