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 again, we meet with rudimentary traces of inflection.
From Lectures on The Science of Language by Max Müller
The main differences shown by these varieties are agglutinative differences.
From Food Poisoning by Edwin Oakes Jordan
The two languages, although both of the agglutinative Sudanese type, are radically distinct in all their structural, lexical, and phonetic elements, and the two peoples are equally distinct.
From Man, Past and Present by Alfred Court Haddon
