The line is drawn around having single words for what other languages have phrases for. koirankaan is a single word just as houses is not a phrase (house es) bu

The line is drawn around having single words for what other languages have phrases for. koirankaan is a single word just as houses is not a phrase (house es) but the plural of house. Languages use different concepts to express the same ideas. The study of languages isn't built around the ideas but around the structure of the language itself.