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 must not be supposed, however, that Turanian or agglutinative languages are forever passing through this process of grammatical regeneration.

From Lectures on The Science of Language by Müller, Max

The Basque is an agglutinative idiom, and must be placed, in a morphological point of view, between the Finnic family, which is simply incorporating, and the North American incorporating and polysynthetic families.

From Basque Legends With an Essay on the Basque Language by Webster, Wentworth

The language was, in fact, one of the agglutinative dialects spoken in Elam, the native language of Susa itself being closely related to it.

From A Primer of Assyriology by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)