Hover over the words above to reveal the meaning of each word.
In the following sentence each morpheme (segment or component) is identified.
3rd person
plural
mountain
(many mountains)
locational/
directional
away.from
several.go
locational/
directional
move.together
Konkow is a poly-synthetic language.
This means it has many different parts that when put together form a new meaning.
The dispersed community that shares interest in this language has many parts with differing connections to it.
A coming together of these many parts would create new meaning for the language.
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