agglutinative

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This frugality, its most basic trait, is then tempered by its second most basic trait, its agglutinative nature—the construction of words by the incessant addition of prefixes and suffixes to the roots.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 24, 2016

One day, discussing Turkish, he asked a visitor if he knew what an agglutinative language was.

From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2012

In agglutinative languages the union of words may be compared to mechanical compounds, in inflective languages to chemical compounds.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

Their absence, however, is readily explained by the persistence of the agglutinative principle, which renders them unnecessary.

From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court

In agglutinative languages again, we meet with rudimentary traces of inflection.

From Lectures on The Science of Language by Müller, Max