An isolating language is a language in which almost every word consists of a single morpheme.
Isolating languages are especially common in Southeast Asia.
(Vietnamese)
khi tôi dên nhà ban tôi, chúng tôi bát dâu làm bài.
when I come house friend I Plural I begin do lesson
When I came to my friend's house, we began to do lessons.
This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library. Version 5.0 published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 2003.