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Fusional language



         


Linguistic typology
Morphological typology
Analytic language
Synthetic language
Fusional language
Agglutinative language
Polysynthetic language
Morphosyntactic alignment
Syntactic pivot
Nominative-accusative language
Ergative-absolutive language
Time Manner Place
Place Manner Time
Subject Verb Object
Subject Object Verb
Verb Subject Object
Verb Object Subject
Object Subject Verb
Object Verb Subject


A fusional language is a type of synthetic language, distinguished from agglutinative languages by its use of fewer morphemes for inflection or by its tendency to "squish together" many morphemes in a way which can be difficult to decode.

The canonical examples of fusional languages are Latin and German, with Dutch as a close follow-up. Most European languages are relatively fusional. Esperanto, a constructed language based in part on many European languages, is a particularly clean and simple example of a fusional language.

A good illustration of fusionality in language is the Latin word amo, "I love". The ending -o denotes indicative mood, active voice, first person, singular, present tense. Changing any of these features requires replacement of the suffix -o with something else.






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