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— Glottology divides the numerous languages of the World, according to the peculiarities of their grammatical structure, into three classes: (1) Monosyllabic or Isolating; (2) Agglutinative; (3) Inflectional or Polysyllabic.

These terms also represent three periods in the growth of languages, that is to say, that language, as an organism, may pass through three stages, as follows: