What does agglutinative mean?
Describing a language in which words are formed by adding prefixes and suffixes to roots, without changing the root's form. This is in contrast to fusional languages, which change the root's form when adding prefixes and suffixes.
Example
"The agglutinative language family includes languages such as Turkish and Japanese."
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