aglutinatiivne

Aglutinatiivne is a term used in linguistics to describe a type of language where grammatical relationships are expressed by joining together morphemes, which are the smallest meaningful units of language. Each morpheme typically carries a single piece of grammatical information, such as tense, number, or case. This means that words in agglutinative languages can often be quite long, as they are built up from a root word and a series of affixes.

A key characteristic of agglutinative languages is the clear separation of morphemes. Unlike fusional languages, where a single affix might convey multiple grammatical meanings (e.g., a verb ending indicating both tense and person), in agglutinative languages, each affix tends to have a distinct meaning. This makes the structure of words more transparent and easier to analyze. For example, a verb might have a root for "eat," followed by an affix for "past tense," another for "plural subject," and yet another for "first person."

Examples of agglutinative languages include Turkish, Finnish, Hungarian, Korean, and many indigenous languages of North America and Siberia. The prevalence of agglutination varies across language families, but it is a significant typological feature that helps linguists categorize and understand the diverse structures of human languages. This grammatical strategy allows for a high degree of precision in conveying grammatical information within a single word.