Editing Fusional language (section)

==Loss of fusionality==
Fusional languages generally tend to lose their inflection over the centuries, some much more quickly than others.<ref name="unfolding">{{cite book | last = Deutscher | first = Guy | author-link = Guy Deutscher (linguist) |title = The unfolding of language: an evolutionary tour of mankind's greatest invention | publisher = Holt Paperbacks | location = New York | year = 2006 | edition = reprint | isbn = 978-0-8050-8012-4 }}{{page needed|date=June 2013}}</ref> [[Proto-Indo-European]] was fusional, but some of its descendants have shifted to a more [[analytic language|analytic]] structure such as [[Modern English]], [[Danish language|Danish]] and [[Afrikaans]] or to [[agglutinative language|agglutinative]] such as [[Persian language|Persian]] and [[Armenian language|Armenian]]. 

Other descendants remain fusional, including [[Sanskrit]], [[Ancient Greek language|Ancient Greek]], [[Lithuanian language|Lithuanian]], [[Latvian language|Latvian]], [[Slavic languages]], as well as [[Latin]] and the [[Romance languages]] and certain [[Germanic languages]].