agglutinációs

Agglutinational languages are a linguistic typology characterized by a process where morphemes, which are the smallest meaningful units of language, are joined together to form longer words. Each morpheme typically carries a single grammatical meaning, such as tense, number, or case. In agglutinational languages, these morphemes are often appended to a root word in a distinct and predictable sequence, without significant alteration to the morphemes themselves or the root. This contrasts with fusional languages, where a single morpheme might carry multiple grammatical meanings, or isolating languages, where words tend to be single morphemes.

The structure of agglutinational languages often results in words that are quite long, as multiple affixes can be added to a base. The boundaries between morphemes are usually clear, making it easier to parse the grammatical function of each part of a word. Examples of well-known agglutinational languages include Turkish, Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian, and many languages of the Uralic and Turkic families. Korean and Japanese are also often cited as having agglutinational characteristics, though they may also exhibit other typological features. The clear concatenation of morphemes is a defining feature that distinguishes this language type.