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

The main differences shown by these varieties are agglutinative differences.

From Food Poisoning by Jordan, Edwin Oakes

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 Webster, Wentworth

A considerable amount of Semitic Babylonian literature was translated from Sumerian originals, and the language of religion and law long continued to be the old agglutinative language of Chaldaea.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various