Features Common to Languages; Universals

[Sherveen Shingu]

English is an analytic language because it follows a verb-object pattern as do French and Spanish. Japanese is an agglutinative language because it follows a object-verb pattern as do 50% of other languages. Japanese, much like Turkish, arranges elements loosely together and is, therefore, agglutinative. Greek is synthetic because it relies heavily upon inflection.