Creating Synthetic Languages
Why is “unbreakable” such a special word for linguists? Unbeknownst to the general public, the word is actually composed of three smaller units that linguists call morphemes. Referring to the smallest meaningful grammatical unit of a language, the three morphemes in ‘unbreakable’ are ‘un’ , ‘break’, and ‘able’. Studying the underlying morpheme structures within a … Continue reading Creating Synthetic Languages