Synthetic Languages

Synthetic languages are Languages with relatively many morphological processes.

Synthetic Language Examples

Agglutinative Languages

Agglutinative languages are languages where words are built with many Affixes, each of which conveys one aspect of meaning.

Hungarian, Turkish, Japanese, Korean, Swahili

Turkish example

Swahili example

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Fusional Languages

Fusional languages are languages where words are built with a few Affixes, each of which conveys several aspects of meaning.

Spanish, Latin

Spanish example: hablo /ablo/(I speak), habla/abla/(s/he speaks), hablé//a'ble/(I spoke). where habl-: (speak), -o: first-person singular present, -a: third-person singular present, -é: first-person singular past

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Polysynthetic Languages

Polysynthetic languages are languages where words consist of very many bound morphemes, such that a sentence can often be expressed in a single word.

Greenlandic, Navajo

Greenlandic example: Aliikkusersuillammassuaanerartassagaluarpaalli Morpheme breakdown: aliikku-sersu-i-llammas-sua-a-nerar-ta-ssa-galuar-paal-li Translation: However, they will say that he is a great entertainer, but …

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