Monosyllabic language
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monosyllabic-language-171-16501903
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Monosyllabic language
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A monosyllabic language is a language in which words predominantly consist of a single syllable. An example of a monosyllabic language would be Old Chinese or Vietnamese or Burmese. Monosyllabism is the name for the property of single-syllable word form. The natural complement of monosyllabism is polysyllabism. Whether a language is monosyllabic or not sometimes depends on the definition of "word", which is far from being a settled matter among linguists. For example, Modern Chinese (Mandarin) i
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2005-03-20T13:42:13Z
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2024-09-01T22:57:58Z
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