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 is generally agreed that this civilization can be traced back to an earlier race, the Sumero-Akkadians, whose language seems allied to the agglutinative idioms of central Asia.

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

For they alone instinctively divined the new spirit of the age, which may be termed co-operative and agglutinative.

From England and Germany by Hughes, William Morris

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