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An '''oligoisolating language''' (from the [[Social:Ancient Greek|Greek]] {{lang|grc|ὀλίγος}}, meaning "few" or "little") is any [[Social:Language|language]] using very few [[Social:Morpheme|morpheme]]s which tend towards an isolating structure of statements. Oligoisolation is almost entirely theoretical and would necessitate long, modifier-heavy sentences.

No [[Philosophy:Natural language|natural language]] has oligoisolating properties; nevertheless it is present in some [[Constructed language|constructed language]]s, such as [[Toki Pona]] and [[AUI (constructed language)|aUI]].

==See also==
* [[Oligosynthetic language]]
* Semantic primitives

[[Category:Isolating languages]]
[[Category:Constructed languages]]

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