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Definition of Inflective language

Inflective language
Inflective In*flect"ive, a. 1. Capable of, or pertaining to, inflection; deflecting; as, the inflective quality of the air. --Derham. 2. (Gram.) Inflectional; characterized by variation, or change in form, to mark case, tense, etc.; subject to inflection. Inflective language (Philol.), a language like the Greek or Latin, consisting largely of stems with variable terminations or suffixes which were once independent words. English is both agglutinative, as, manlike, headache, and inflective, as, he, his, him. Cf. Agglutinative.

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- Fusional languages or inflected languages are a type of synthetic language, distinguished from agglutinative languages by their tendency to use a single...
- pattern are said to be regular; those that inflect differently are called irregular. For instance, many languages that feature verb inflection have both regular...
- speakers, despite being used extensively and actively. Latin is a highly inflected language, with three distinct genders (masculine, feminine, and neuter), seven...
- (including e-books) in the world being published in German. German is an inflected language, with four cases for nouns, pronouns, and adjectives (nominative,...
- nouns and verbs; prefixes are exclusively inflective, whereas suffixes can be inflective or derivational. Inflective prefixes are quite short, often composed...
- Germanic languages, and resembles Old Norwegian before much of its fusional inflection was lost. Modern Icelandic is still a heavily inflected language with...
- and particles. Tagalog is an agglutinative yet slightly inflected language. Pronouns are inflected for number and verbs for focus/voice and aspect. Tagalog...
- spellings be deemed correct. French is a moderately inflected language. Nouns and most pronouns are inflected for number (singular or plural, though in most...
- 𐤏𐤁𐤓𐤉𐤕‎) is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family. A regional dialect of the Canaanite languages, it was natively spoken by the...
- language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England. The namesake of the language...