AGGLUTINATIVE LANGUAGE
(noun)Definitions
There is 1 meaning of the phrase
Agglutinative Language.
Agglutinative Language - as a noun
A language in which words are made up of a linear sequence of distinct morphemes and each component of meaning is represented by its own morpheme.
Example: "Agglutinative languages tend to have a high rate of affixes/morphemes per word, and to be very regular, in particular with very few irregular verbs."
Example Sentences
"Finnish is an agglutinative language."
"Turkish is another example of an agglutinative language."
"In agglutinative languages, words are built by adding prefixes and suffixes to a root."
"Estonian is a member of the agglutinative language family."
"Hungarian is an example of a Uralic agglutinative language."
