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mono·syl·lab·ic lan·guage
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Monosyllabic language
A monosyllabic language is a language in which words predominantly consist of a single syllable. An example of a monosyllabic language would be Old Chinese.Monosyllabism is the name for the property of single-syllable word form. The natural complement of monosyllabism is polysyllabism. Whether a language is monosyllabic or not sometimes depends on the definition of "word", which is far from being a settled matter among linguists. For example, Modern Chinese (Mandarin) is ""monosyllabic"" if each written Chinese character is considered a word; which is justified by observing that most characters have proper meaning(s) (even if very generic and ambiguous). However, most entries in a Chinese dictionary are compounds of two or more characters; if those entries are taken as the "words", then Mandarin is not truly monosyllabic, only its morphemes are.
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Monosyllabic language
A monosyllabic language is a language in which words predominantly consist of a single syllable. The languages of China and Southeast Asia are sometimes referred to as monosyllabic languages. The languages of the region tend to be highly isolating and can be phonetically complex. The difficulty of defining the term "word," such as the difficulty of telling apart collocations, set phrases and compound words in languages such as Chinese or English, the subjective question of what constitutes "most" words to make a language monosyllabic and other such considerations render the topic non-scientific and unencyclopedic. A monosyllable may be complex and include seven or more consonants and a vowel or be as simple as a single vowel or a syllabic consonant. Few known recorded languages preserve simple CV forms which apparently are fully functional roots conveying meaning, i.e. are words ---- but are not the reductions from earlier complex forms that we find in Mandarin Chinese CV forms, almost always derived with tonal and phonological modifications from Sino-Tibetan *CV/ forms.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of monosyllabic language in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of monosyllabic language in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
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