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

Their language is like that of the Magyars, an agglutinative tongue with tendencies towards inflections, but their physical structure allies them more nearly to the Teutons.

From Races and Immigrants in America by Commons, John R. (John Rogers)

The Finnish, Hungarian, Turkish, the Tamul, etc., are agglutinative languages.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

There was a very good reason why the Turanian languages should have remained in this second or agglutinative stage.

From Lectures on The Science of Language by Müller, Max