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

Australian languages agglutinative, not uniform throughout the continent and unconnected with any other group.

From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court

The inventors of the cuneiform system of writing had been a people who preceded the Semites in the occupation of Babylonia, and who spoke an agglutinative language utterly different from that of their Semitic successors.

From Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)

The other Cushitic tongues exhibit increasing agglutinative tendencies the farther we go south, although single archaisms are found even in Somali.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" by Various