agglutinative

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.

Turkish is an agglutinative language, in which the various parts of speech, tense and case markers are run together.

Proper linguists should probably look away now as I butcher the subject with simplifications but languages can be divided into those that agglutinative and those that are fusional.

In agglutinative languages the union of words may be compared to mechanical compounds, in inflective languages to chemical compounds.

One day, discussing Turkish, he asked a visitor if he knew what an agglutinative language was.