Conlangery #47: Practicum — Isolating and Analytic Languages

Today we talk about something we wish more conlangers would think about creating — isolating and analytic languages. It seems that virtually everyone wants some polysynthetic madness or at least a complex verb paradigm, but there are ways to make isolation and analytic syntax interesting, we promise! Also, Taila

Top of Show Greeting: Hra’anh

Links and Resources:

• Wikipedia: Isolating Language (w/ section on analytic languages)
• Zero role marking and word order
• Gbe languages (Wikipedia)
• Nonconcatenative morphology (Brought up in response to Mike’s question about triconsonontal roots.)
• Nùng

Featured Conlang: Taila