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111Synthetic language — A synthetic language, in linguistic typology, is a language with a high morpheme per word ratio. This linguistic classification is largely independent of morpheme usage classifications (such as fusional, agglutinative, etc.), although there is a… …
112Old Tupi language — Infobox Language name=Old Tupi nativename= states=Brazil speakers=extinct familycolor=American fam1=Tupian fam2=Tupí Guarani script=Latin alphabet iso2= [http://www.sil.org/iso639 3/documentation.asp?id=sai sai] (Collective)Old Tupi or Classical… …
113Portuguese grammar — Portuguese grammar, the morphology and syntax of the Portuguese language, is similar to the grammar of most other Romance languages especially Galician and the other languages of Iberian Peninsula. It is a synthetic, fusional language. Nouns,… …
114morphology — morphologic /mawr feuh loj ik/, morphological, adj. morphologically, adv. morphologist, n. /mawr fol euh jee/, n. 1. the branch of biology dealing with the form and structure of organisms. 2. the form and structure of an organism considered as a… …
115Dravidian languages — Family of 23 languages indigenous to and spoken principally in South Asia by more than 210 million people. The four major Dravidian languages of southern India Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam have independent scripts and long documented… …
116Indo-European languages — Family of languages with the greatest number of speakers, spoken in most of Europe and areas of European settlement and in much of southwestern and southern Asia. They are descended from a single unrecorded language believed to have been spoken… …
117Tupi language — Tupí Tupinamba Spoken in Brazil Ethnicity Tupinambá Extinct (survives as Nheengatu) Language family …
118Point — The smallest unit of price change quoted or, one one hundredth of a percent. Related: minimum price fluctuation and tick. The New York Times Financial Glossary * * * ▪ I. point point 1 [pɔɪnt] noun [countable] 1. a single idea, opinion, or fact,… …
119point — See minimum price fluctuation. The CENTER ONLINE Futures Glossary See basis point. American Banker Glossary The smallest unit of price change quoted, or one one hundredth of a percent. Related: minimum price fluctuation and tick. Bloomberg… …
120intonation — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. inflection or modulation [of voice]; tuning. See sound, music. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. inflection, pitch pattern, tone, accent; see accent 2 , 3 , inflection , sound 2 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) …
