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

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

It is syllabic agglutinative, that is, the word inflections are made up by adding syllables to the root word that is never lost.

From Heathen Master Filcsik by Mikszáth, Kálmán

Some authorities hold that Peruvian civilization had no connexion with the north and was an entirely indigenous product, but Kechua is in structure not unlike the agglutinative languages of central and northern Asia.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various