Morphological typology

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The classification of languages based on their morphological properties and the types of morphological processes they use.

"Morphological typology is a way of classifying the languages of the world that groups languages according to their common morphological structures."
"Analytic languages contain very little inflection, instead relying on features like word order and auxiliary words to convey meaning."
"Synthetic languages, ones that are not analytic, are divided into two categories: agglutinative and fusional languages."
"Agglutinative languages rely primarily on discrete particles (prefixes, suffixes, and infixes) for inflection."
"Fusional languages 'fuse' inflectional categories together, often allowing one word ending to contain several categories."
"A further subcategory of agglutinative languages are polysynthetic languages, which take agglutination to a higher level by constructing entire sentences, including nouns, as one word."
"Analytic, fusional, and agglutinative languages can all be found in many regions of the world."
"Analytic languages encompass the Sino-Tibetan family, including Chinese, many languages in Southeast Asia, the Pacific, and West Africa, and a few of the Germanic languages."
"Fusional languages encompass most of the Indo-European family, such as French, Russian, and Hindi, as well as the Semitic family and a few members of the Uralic family."
"Most of the world's languages, however, are agglutinative, including the Turkic, Japonic, Dravidian, and Bantu languages, and most families in the Americas, Australia, the Caucasus, and non-Slavic Russia."
"Constructed languages take a variety of morphological alignments."
"Some linguists argue that most, if not all, languages are in a permanent state of transition, normally from fusional to analytic to agglutinative to fusional again."
"Others take issue with the definitions of the categories, arguing that they conflate several distinct, if related, variables." Please note that the response has been generated based on the information provided. The quotes provided are selections from the paragraph and may not cover the entire context. For a complete understanding of the topic, refer to the original paragraph.