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
It meant, in the case of the Semitic Babylonians and Assyrians, learning the ancient agglutinative language of Sumer as well.
From Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
For they alone instinctively divined the new spirit of the age, which may be termed co-operative and agglutinative.
From England and Germany by William Morris Hughes
In agglutinative languages again, we meet with rudimentary traces of inflection.
From Lectures on The Science of Language by Max Müller
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