Derivational and inflectional affixes associated with nouns are always suffixes, with the exception of the prefixes kip and " che : p-", which denote male and female gender respectively.
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For example, Mandarin Chinese has many compound words, giving it a moderately high ratio of morphemes per word, yet, since it has almost no inflectional affixes at all to convey grammatical relationships, it is a very analytic language.
