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agglutinative::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | polysynthetic |
| Derivation | agglutinate |
agglutinative::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | agglutinate |
Examples of agglutinative
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I think it's harder to borrow words from an agglutinative language like Finnish.
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Malay is an agglutinative language, and new words are formed by three methods.
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Agglutinative languages tend to create very long words with derivational morphemes.
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Agglutinative languages allow for the creation of long words via compounding.
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Manchu is an agglutinative language that demonstrates limited vowel harmony.
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Modern Armenian is agglutinative, rich in consonants, and has no grammatical gender.
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The distinction between an agglutinative and a fusional language is often not sharp.
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Languages that use agglutination widely are called agglutinative languages.
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Another well-known property of the Bantu languages is their agglutinative morphology.
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- Forming derivative or compound words by putting together constituents each of which expresses a single definite meaning
- Agglutinate: united as if by glue
- In linguistics, agglutination is the morphological process of adding affixes to the base of a word. Languages that use agglutination widely are called agglutinative languages. These languages are often contrasted with fusional languages and isolating languages. ...
- Sticky, tacky, adhesive; Having words derived by combining parts, each with a separate meaning
- [language typology] A term used in language typology to denote those languages which use formally transparent bound morphemes to indicate grammatical categories. ...
- One of the three broad categories into which languages are divided: the other two being Isolating and Inflectional. ...
