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Language Typology: Morphological and Phonological Classification
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Which language type is characterized by a lack of inflectional morphology and a reliance on word order to convey grammatical relationships?
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Isolating
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Isolating languages have a simple grammatical structure and rely on word order to convey meaning. They typically have no inflectional morphology, meaning that words do not change their form to indicate grammatical relationships.