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Inflected language, Synthetic languages
Items: Inflected language, Synthetic language

Discuss on: Talk:Inflected language, Talk:Synthetic language, Talk:Morphological typology

Description: Can't make heads or tails on whether they're the same or very different.

I find very little literature (on Wikipedia) giving an idea about what a inflected language is, but there are various descriptions of what a synthetic language is, and all different.

IANAL (Linguist), but in my opinion, the description from morphological typology makes it look like fusional language.

The first description is undoubtedly the one used in classical Indo-European linguistics. The second seems better aplied to the limiting case than to the languages usually considered synthetic. The third definition carries its own destruction in its final clause. I should suggest that the first be used. Perhaps the third is attempting to define an agglutinative language? A. Shetsen 07:15, 6 Jul 2004 (UTC)