Language

abstract accent affixes agglutinative agglutinative languages analogous analytic Anglo-Saxon articulation auditory Bantu cepts Chinese Chinook classification compound concrete consonants culture dative define derivational developed dialects diphthong distinct duckling English examples expression fact farmer feeling formal foti French function fundamental fusion grammatical element guages High German historical Hupa idea independent words indicate individual Indo-European infixed inflective inherent instance instinctive isolating kill language Latin linguistic matter means ment merely method Middle High German modified morphological nasal nature Nootka notion noun objective Old High German particular phonetic pattern plural polysynthetic prefixes pronouns psychological pure-relational purely race radical element relational concepts Sanskrit Semitic languages sentence sequence Shilluk significance sing singular sounds speaker speech spoken stress suffix syllable symbolic syntactic relations synthetic synthetic languages Takelma tendency tense thought Tibetan tion tive Tlingit tone unconscious variations verb vocalic voiceless vowel Yana