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
Its place in the general series of idioms has at last been well defined—it is an agglutinative and incorporating language, with some tendency to polysynthetism.
From Basque Legends With an Essay on the Basque Language by Wentworth Webster
Other philosophers imagine that the combination of roots to form agglutinative and inflectional language is, like the first formation of roots, the result of a natural instinct.
From Lectures on The Science of Language by Max Müller
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 Kálmán Mikszáth
