Adjective : an agglutinative substance. From Dictionary.com.
It belongs to the class of languages called agglutinative, common to the Tauranian race; i.e., it consists of words "glued together," without declension of conjugation. From Wordnik.com. [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference
They are agglutinative, and are divided into two branches. From Wordnik.com. [Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers] Reference
That's one of their compensations for being agglutinative. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER 21] Reference
Languages of these peoples are monosyllabic or agglutinative. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
I think any agglutinative language isn't exactly hard to learn. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: THE DIFFICULTY OF JAPANESE.] Reference
Kazakh is an agglutinative language, and it employs vowel harmony. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas shopping with the sliding US dollar] Reference
It serves speakers of agglutinative languages quite well for everyday communication, poetry, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Newspeak and George Orwell's 1984] Reference
One other discovery of great importance may be mentioned, viz. the agglutinative action of the serum of. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
Of these the most important are (a) bacteriolytic or lysogenic action, (b) agglutinative action, and (c) opsonic action. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
Saami languages, being of the Finno-Ugric family, are agglutinative, creating words by linear concatenation of morphemes. From Wordnik.com. [As ice thaws, critical analysis of soundbites dwindles] Reference
Sumerian is agglutinative, which means that phonetically unchanging words and particles are joined together to form phrases. From Wordnik.com. [The Whisperers] Reference
Embrace her bashfully by almeans at my frank incensive and tell her in your semiological agglutinative yez, how Idos be asking after her. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
It is probably not an accident that the agglutinative languages all seem to have been instigated by committees, and the crystallization languages by a single person. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-09-01] Reference
Is the formative slant clearly towards the agglutinative method?. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 6. Types of Linguistic Structure] Reference
The linguistic characteristics developed into the agglutinative languages. From Wordnik.com. [AE in the Irish Theosophist] Reference
The juxtaposing technique we may call an agglutinative one, if we like. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 6. Types of Linguistic Structure] Reference
West, and South Africa, is an agglutinative tongue which makes especial use of prefixes. From Wordnik.com. [The Negro] Reference
By the theory the monosyllabic is lower than the agglutinative, and inherently less useful. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Upon the Maya-Tzental Perez Codex with a Concluding Note Upon the Linguistic Problem of the Maya Glyphs] Reference
We now to come to the difference between an inflective and an agglutinative language. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 6. Types of Linguistic Structure] Reference
Their language was agglutinative, and they were the inventors of the cuneiform system of writing. From Wordnik.com. [Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities] Reference
The Turanian languages are marked by the same agglutinative character found in the American races. From Wordnik.com. [Atlantis : the antediluvian world] Reference
Japanese, and Coreans, all of whom belong to the same dissyllabic, long-worded, agglutinative family. From Wordnik.com. [Ancient China Simplified] Reference
It makes direct use of the notion of morpheme in the definition of agglutinative and fusional languages. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
They were divided into several branches, speaking different dialects of the same agglutinative language. From Wordnik.com. [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference
Its members spoke agglutinative dialects, and the primitive civilization of Babylonia was their creation. From Wordnik.com. [Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs] Reference
In trying to express herself where she found some difficulty she made use of agglutinative forms of speech. From Wordnik.com. [Cambridge Sketches] Reference
It is agglutinative in its syntax, each word consisting of an unchangeable root and one or several suffixes. From Wordnik.com. [Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities] Reference
Chinese; the classic example of an agglutinative language is Greek are classic examples of fusional languages. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
It was highly agglutinative, and unlike any other form of speech, ancient or modern, with which we are acquainted. From Wordnik.com. [Patriarchal Palestine] Reference
Korean shares an agglutinative nature like that in Turkish, but as I recall, vowel harmony is not much of a component. From Wordnik.com. [The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely] Reference
It belonged to the civilization of which the Sumerians of Chaldæa, with their agglutinative language, were the pioneers. From Wordnik.com. [Patriarchal Palestine] Reference
It meant, in the case of the Semitic Babylonians and Assyrians, learning the ancient agglutinative language of Sumer as well. From Wordnik.com. [Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs] Reference
Inflections in general have a half-agglutinative character, the meaning and origin of the affixes and suffixes being palpable. From Wordnik.com. [History of Phoenicia] Reference
But, alas, not so. is a member of the Finno-Ugric language family and is typologically between fusional and agglutinative languages. From Wordnik.com. [Ecstatic Days] Reference
The psychological distinctness of the affixed elements in an agglutinative term may be even more marked than in the - ness of goodness. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 6. Types of Linguistic Structure] Reference
He was (if I may borrow a phrase from the philologists) an agglutinative writer, and composed by sticking together independent fragments. From Wordnik.com. [Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series] Reference
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