Talk:Isolating language
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[edit] Criticism
Of the hundreds of Wikipedia articles I have read, this is by far the most difficult to understand. Only a linguist would have any hope of comprehending it. A typical Wikipedia reader like me has no hope. Ronstew 03:13, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Analytic/isolating confusion
This article and the article on isolating languages, claim that analytic languages are languages where meaning is more affected by word order and particles than by inflection, while isolating languages have few affixes, declensions, et cetera, and mostly consist of separate words. However, everywhere else on Wikipedia, it seems like it is analytic languages that consist mostly of separate words. I don't know the difference, so I posted an "expert" tag. Let's hope some professional linguist is able to sort this out.
A. Parrot (talk) 23:49, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
- English is the exception and not the rule: usually to be an analytic language, it will also happen to be an isolating language. So much so that english is only (occasionally) included with the isolating languages because it is syntactically analytic, and has auxilliaries for future and conditionals ... otherwise it is a weakly inflected language with a relative wealth of compound words and therefore opposite of an isolating language. Oh, btw, I'm not an expert I'm just parroting what my chinese friends and friends in language education have told me. — robbiemuffin page talk 17:08, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
