Finck, FN (English spelling) FinckFN

Japanese: Finck,F.N.(英語表記)FinckFN
Finck, FN (English spelling) FinckFN

...As can be seen from this, it is impossible to classify the world's languages, which show various different characteristics, into a few types from a single perspective, and it should be understood that these are merely rough guidelines. In the 20th century, more precise classification attempts were made by the German linguist Franz Nikolaus Finck (1867-1910) and the American E. Sapir. Incidentally, it was once suggested that these three classifications should be interpreted as differences in developmental stages, from isolating languages ​​to agglutinative languages, and the most advanced stage being inflected languages, but this is completely unfounded.

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Japanese:

…こうしたことからもわかるように,そもそもさまざまに異なった姿を示す世界中の諸言語を,唯一の観点から少数のタイプに分類するのは無理であり,どこまでも一応の目安を示すものと理解すべきである。なお20世紀におけるさらに精密な分類の試みは,ドイツの言語学者フィンクFranz Nikolaus Finck(1867‐1910)やアメリカのE.サピアにみられる。ちなみに,かつてこの3分類を,孤立語から膠着語へ進み,さらに最も進んだ段階が屈折語であるとする,発展段階の違いとしてとらえる考えが説かれたことがあるが,これはまったく根拠のないものである。…

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