Agglutinative

A considerable amount of Babylonian literature was translated from Sumerian originals, and the language of religion and law long continued to be written in the old agglutinative language of Sumer.

Agglutinative constructions The English language permits the legitimate extension of existing words to serve new purposes by the addition of prefixes and suffixes.

Also, the agglutinative nature of Inuit language meant that names seemed long and were difficult for southern bureaucrats and missionaries to pronounce.

Antidisestablishmentarianism is the longest common example of a word formed by agglutinative construction.

As Malayalam is an agglutinative language, it is difficult to delineate the cases strictly and determine how many there are, although seven or eight is the generally accepted number.

But, the agglutinative structure of these languages allows almost infinite combinations of prefixes and suffices to these roots - so 'snow' can form as many 'words' as any other root.

Frequently mentioned is Esperanto's agglutinative morphology based on invariant morphemes, and the subsequent lack of ablaut (internal inflection of its roots ), which Zamenhof himself thought would prove alien to non-Indo-European language speakers.

Furthermore, they argued that many of the typological features of the supposed Altaic languages, such as agglutinative morphology and subject–object–verb (SOV) word order, usually simultaneously occur in languages.

Grammar The grammar is based on that of typical European languages, but with an agglutinative character: grammatical inflections are indicated by stringing together separate affixes for each element of meaning.

It is an agglutinative language ; in other words, morphemes ("units of meaning") are added together to create words, unlike analytic languages where morphemes are purely added together to create sentences.

Japanese is an agglutinative language distinguished by a system of honorifics reflecting the hierarchical nature of Japanese society, with verb forms and particular vocabulary indicating the relative status of speaker and listener.

Several scholars maintain that structural analysis indicates that an agglutinative language underlies the script.

The agglutinative secondary case endings in the two languages likewise stem from different sources, showing parallel development of the secondary case system after the Proto-Tocharian period.

The item-and-arrangement approach fits very naturally with agglutinative languages.

The opposite of fusional languages are agglutinative languages which construct words by stringing morphemes together in chains, but with each morpheme as a discrete semantic unit.

The Uyghur language is an agglutinative language and has a subject-object-verb word order.

They were invented to show, in a somewhat facetious way, the ability of the language to form long words (see agglutinative language ).