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Morphological Typology Space (2D)

Build a word morpheme by morpheme -- agglutinative, fusional or isolating -- on an interactive 2D scatter plot of Greenberg's Synthesis, Agglutination and Isolation indices, alongside real reference languages, with draggable pan/zoom and sliders for auto-generating whole sentences.

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2d-morphology ↗ Open standalone

Every language balances the same trade-off differently: how many morphemes get packed into one word, and whether those morphemes snap together cleanly or fuse into a single blended form. This simulator turns Joseph Greenberg's quantitative morphological indices -- Synthesis (morphemes per word), Agglutination (clean vs fused boundaries) and Isolation (bare one-morpheme words) -- into a live, pannable 2D scatter plot. Build your own word by attaching agglutinative or fusional morphemes, start a fresh isolate word, or let the auto-builder sketch a whole weighted sentence, and watch a glowing point trace its path through the same space that separates isolating languages like Vietnamese from agglutinative ones like Turkish and polysynthetic ones like West Greenlandic.

⚙ Under the hood

Build a word morpheme by morpheme -- agglutinative, fusional or isolating -- on an interactive 2D scatter plot of Greenberg's Synthesis, Agglutination and Isolation indices, alongside real reference languages, with draggable pan/zoom and sliders for auto-generating whole sentences.

linguisticsmorphologylanguage-typologycognitive-scienceword-formation

2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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