agglutination
Sign in to savethumb|The middle sign is in Hungarian language|Hungarian, which agglutinates extensively. (The top and bottom signs are in Romanian and German, respectively, both inflecting languages.) The English translation is "Ministry of Food and Agriculture: [[Satu Mare County Directorate General of Food and Agriculture".]]
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- Examples of agglutinative languages
- Eurasia and Oceania
- Americas
- Slots
- Suffixing or prefixing
- In the context of quantitative linguistics
- Phonetics and agglutination
- Extremes
- Other uses of the words ''agglutination'' and ''agglutinative''
- Agglutinative languages in natural language processing
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
thumb|The middle sign is in Hungarian language|Hungarian, which agglutinates extensively. (The top and bottom signs are in Romanian and German, respectively, both inflecting languages.) The English translation is "Ministry of Food and Agriculture: [[Satu Mare County Directorate General of Food and Agriculture".]]
In linguistics, agglutination is a morphological process in which words are formed by stringing together morphemes (word parts), each of which corresponds to a single syntactic feature. Languages that use agglutination widely are called agglutinative languages. For example, in the agglutinative Turkish, the word ("from your houses") consists of the morphemes ev-ler-i-n-iz-den. Agglutinative languages are often contrasted with isolating languages, in which words are monomorphemic, and fusional languages, in which words can be complex, but morphemes may correspond to multiple features.