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Oligoisolating language
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An oligoisolating language (from the Greek , meaning "few" or "little") is any language using very few morphemes which tend towards an isolating structure of statements. Oligoisolation is almost entirely theoretical. No natural language has oligoisolating properties; nevertheless it is present in some constructed languages, such as Toki Pona, and in an extreme case, Facilish. Oligoisolating vs Oligosynthetic In both oligoisolating and oligosynthetic languages, the prefix oligo- refers to the low morpheme count. However, their morphological structures are distinct and thus they are not synonymous. Oligoisolating languages are isolating languages which means there is a low morpheme to word count. Oligosynthetic languages are synthetic languages which means there is a high morpheme to word count. |
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