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Vietnamese and just want to say that the grammatical inflection in the Vietnamese language is not possible because the Vietnamese language is monosyllabic (therefore analytical) and the phonetic laws of the Vietnamese phonemes do not allow it to add consonants or additional affixes,
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It seems fair to me that the idea "Zero-marking language" is there, analogues to "typed vs untyped" in programming language camp, so I am a bit confused. I am not linguistician, so I urge anyone who see this message fix it.
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Laotian do not have the gramatical inflection. However learning foreign languages is still possible and there are no problems with it. --
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