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Definition of Agglutinative

Agglutinative
Agglutinative Ag*glu"ti*na*tive, a. [Cf. F. agglutinatif.] 1. Pertaining to agglutination; tending to unite, or having power to cause adhesion; adhesive. 2. (Philol.) Formed or characterized by agglutination, as a language or a compound. In agglutinative languages the union of words may be compared to mechanical compounds, in inflective languages to chemical compounds. --R. Morris. Cf. man-kind, heir-loom, war-like, which are agglutinative compounds. The Finnish, Hungarian, Turkish, the Tamul, etc., are agglutinative languages. --R. Morris. Agglutinative languages preserve the consciousness of their roots. --Max M["u]ller.

Meaning of Agglutinative from wikipedia

- Languages that use agglutination widely are called agglutinative languages. For example, in the agglutinative language of Turkish, the word evlerinizden ("from...
- An agglutinative language is a type of language that primarily forms words by stringing together morphemes (word parts)—each typically representing a...
- inflected languages are a type of synthetic language, distinguished from agglutinative languages by their tendency to use single inflectional morphemes to...
- are not analytic, are divided into two categories: agglutinative and fusional languages. Agglutinative languages rely primarily on discrete particles (prefixes...
- linguistic classification is subdivided into the classifications fusional, agglutinative, and polysynthetic, which are based on how the morphemes are combined...
- specific language, and on the types of words allowed for consideration. Agglutinative languages allow for the creation of long words via compounding. Words...
- agglutinative languages the latter subtype of word synthesis. Further divisions include polysynthetic languages (most belonging to an agglutinative-polysynthetic...
- it on the ancient Hurrian language, which like the Black Speech was agglutinative. The Black Speech is one of the more fragmentary languages in The Lord...
- conveys only a single grammatical category, such as Finnish, are known as agglutinative languages, while languages in which a single inflection can convey multiple...
- it is an official language. Like all Bantu languages, Sesotho is an agglutinative language that uses numerous affixes and derivational and inflexional...