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> I'm not sure exactly what you mean One way of classifying languages is as “analytic” (where unit’s role in a sentence, its relationship to other units, is de
by strogonoff 6y ago
> I'm not sure exactly what you mean
One way of classifying languages is as “analytic” (where unit’s role in a sentence, its relationship to other units, is denoted by auxiliary units/particles or unit order) or “synthetic” (where unit inflects, its form changes to reflect its role).
Most languages are somewhere in between, but languages with logographic written systems tend to be more on analytic side.
What could a pure attempt at a synthetic grammar that also has semantics-focused writing system (one that tries to maximize difference in visual representation appropriately to distance in meaning) look like?