The pen name " Taral " originated from a fictional synthetic language, Siroihin, that he described in one of his early science fiction fanzines.
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More recently, minimalist composer Philip Glass wrote an opera titled " Akhenaten, " which is sung entirely in a synthetic language imitating ancient Egyptian.
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If lexical entropy is mainly increased by morpho-syntactic changes, I can see that being significant for more synthetic language families, but what about isolating languages?
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In highly synthetic languages, copulas are often suffixes, attached to a noun, but they may still behave otherwise like ordinary verbs : "-u-" in Inuit languages.
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Classical Armenian was predominantly an inflecting and synthetic language, but in Middle Armenian, during the period of Modern Armenian influence, agglutinative and analytical forms influenced the language.
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Initially a highly inflectional and synthetic language, older forms of Latin rely little on word order, conveying meaning through a system of affixes attached to word stems.
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The influence of Old Norse certainly helped move English from a synthetic language towards a more analytic or isolating word order, a deep change at the grammatical level.
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As a result of the untenability of the noun case system after these phonetic changes, Vulgar Latin shifted from a markedly synthetic language to a more analytic one.
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In linguistic typology, a "'synthetic language "'is a language with a high morpheme-per-agglutinative, etc . ), although there is a common tendency for agglutinative languages to exhibit synthetic properties.
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Latin is a relatively synthetic language; it expresses grammatical meaning using inflection, whereas the verb system of English, a Germanic language, is relatively analytic; it uses auxiliary verbs to express functional meaning.
