Isolating language#Analytic languages

An analytical linguistic structure is for the linguistic typology of August Wilhelm Schlegel ago in a language in which the grammatical function of the words / phrases in the sentence is made clear by independent single words (eg, subject, object, ...). One speaks in this context of analytic languages. This contrasts with the synthetic and polysynthetic languages ​​in which different information can be incorporated by flexion in single words. The emphasis of Schlegel difference between analytic and synthetic languages ​​keeps Wilhelm von Humboldt for gradual and not very relevant.

The Chinese ( all " dialects " ) is a very good example of an analytic language. To illustrate:

As can be seen, a single word represents a single function here. In German, however, such as the information through plural inflection is integrated into the words. However, the German contains many analytical elements. In the phrase " in my houses," for example, the information locative and possessive 1st person are expressed by separate words, you hereby compare the meaningless same Finnish word " taloissani ": talo ( "house" ) i (plural ) " ssa " ( inessive, " in " ) ni (" my " )

Southeast Asia is also home to many analytic languages ​​, such as Thai or Vietnamese.

Also creoles such as Haitian are good examples of analytic languages. Compared to above:

Swell

• Wilhelm von Humboldt: About the differences of the human Sprachbaues. In: Wilhelm von Humboldt: writings on the philosophy of language. University Press, Darmstadt 1963, 144-367. (Original 1827-29 )
• August Wilhelm Schlegel: Observations sur la langue et la littérature provençales. Librairie Greque - Latine - Allemande 1818 ( reprint: Gunter Narr (Editor), Tübingen contributions to linguistics, Tübingen 1971).