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Verb

isolating

  1. present participle and gerund of isolate

Adjective

 isolating language on Wikipedia

isolating (comparative more isolating, superlative most isolating)

  1. (linguistics, of languages) Having low morpheme per word ratio and no inflectional morphemes.
    • 2021 October 5, Gessica Puccini, “Lang Belta: the Belter language from SYFY/Amazon’s The Expanse”, in Lingoblog:
      As an isolating language Belter Creole is rich in particles. Particles are used to indicate both negation and interrogation: na is the negative particle and it is placed before the verb

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