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== Outside Eurasia == === Americas === Unusual for a Native North American language, [[Navajo language|Navajo]] is sometimes described as fusional because of its complex and inseparable verb morphology.<ref>{{cite book|last=Sloane|first=Thomas O.|title=Encyclopedia of Rhetoric|date=2001|isbn=978-0-195-12595-5|publisher=[[Oxford University]] Press|page=442}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Languages of Native North America|date=2001|last=Mithun|first=Marianne|publisher=[[Cambridge University]] Press|isbn=978-0-521-29875-9|page=323}}</ref> Some [[Amazonian languages]] such as [[Ayoreo language|Ayoreo]] have fusional morphology.<ref name="lang">Bertinetto, Pier Marco 2009. ''Ayoreo (Zamuco). A grammatical sketch''. Quaderni del Laboratorio di Linguistica della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. 8 n.s. [http://linguistica.sns.it/QLL/QLL09.htm]</ref> The [[Fuegian languages|Fuegian]] language [[Selkʼnam language|Selkʼnam]] has fusional elements. For example, both [[evidentiality]] and [[agreement (linguistics)#gender|gender agreement]] are coded with a single suffix on the verb:<ref name=RojasBerscia2014>{{Cite book|title=A Heritage Reference Grammar of Selkʼnam|last=Rojas-Berscia|first=Luis Miguel|year=2014|location=Nijmegen |publisher=Radboud University}}</ref> <section begin="list-of-glossing-abbreviations"/><div style="display:none;"> CERT:certainty (evidential):evidentiality </div><section end="list-of-glossing-abbreviations"/> {{interlinear|indent=2|glossing=link|lang=ona |Ya k-tįmi x-įnn nį-y ya. |1P REL-land go-CERT.MASC PRES-MASC 1P |'I go to my land.'}} === Africa === Some [[Nilo-Saharan]] languages such as [[Lugbara language|Lugbara]] are also considered fusional.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://wals.info/chapter/20|title = WALS Online - Chapter Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives}}</ref>
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