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Agglutinative language

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  1. Examples of agglutinative languages include Basque, Blackfoot, Georgian, the Altaic languages (see Turkish), Japanese (sometimes grouped with Altaic), Korean (sometimes grouped with Altaic), many Tibeto-Burman languages, the Dravidian languages-parti

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  2. a language that uses agglutination extensively: most words are formed by joining morphemes together

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  3. This term was introduced by Wilhelm von Humboldt in 1836 to classify languages from a morphological point of view

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  4. derived from the Latin verb agglutinare, which means "to glue together." An agglutinative language is a form of synthetic language where each affix typically represents one unit of meaning (such as "diminutive," "past tense," "plural," etc.), and bou

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  5. Additionally, and most importantly, in an agglutinative language affixes do not become fused with others, and do not change form conditioned by others

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  6. Synthetic languages that are not agglutinative are called fusional languages

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