Re: affixes

Quoting Chris Bates <chris.maths_student@...>:

> Ithkiul sounds like it's *thinks* there a word for a language with a
> very small number of actual roots and a lot of derivation and
> compounding. Some people argue Nahuatl is that way... but I forget the
> term now. So basically I don't know what I want to say.
The word is oligosynthetic.  I encountered the word while studying
Toki Pona, which is oligoanalytic.

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Damian