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Finnish has various forms of consonant gradation, e.g. kyky (ability) -> kyvystä (from skill), or saapas (boot) -> saappain (by boots). I'm no linguist, but I'm
by htns 12y ago
Finnish has various forms of consonant gradation, e.g. kyky (ability) -> kyvystä (from skill), or saapas (boot) -> saappain (by boots). I'm no linguist, but I'm pretty sure that hinders Finnish from turning very analytic. This is in contrast to say, Quechua, which is so regular I'm not sure how they decided which things are inflections and which are their own words.