Agglutinative language

An agglutinative language is a type of language where words are made up of different types of morphemes to determine their meaning. (A morpheme is the smallest part of a word that has a meaning.) What makes these languages different from others, is that if one removes the morphemes from the word, they will be able to stand on their own.

 Examples 

Chinook

a–č–i–m–l–ud–a: (future–he–him–thee–to–give–future): "He will give it to you"

Hungarian

szent: holy
szentség: holiness
szentségtelen: holinessless

Persian
Bozorgtarinhashunra niga mikardam - I was looking at their biggest ones.
Bozorg: big
Bozorg-tar: bigger (lit. more big)
Bozorg-tar-in: biggest (lit. the more big one)
Bozorg-tar-in-ha: biggest ones (plural)
Bozorg-tar-in-ha-shun: their biggest ones
Bozorg-tar-in-ha-shun-ra: at their biggest ones

Turkish

ev–ler–den: (home–plural–from): "from the houses"

Kazakh
бару: (baru) — to go
бара алмау: (bara almau) — not being able to go
бара алмаған: (bara almağan) — the one that couldn't go
бара алмағандар: (bara almağamdar) — the ones that couldn't go

 List 

Below is a list of modern agglutinative languages:

 Algonquian languages, namely Cree and Blackfoot
 Athabaskan languages

 Austronesian languages
 Bantu languages (see Ganda)
 Berber languages
 Dravidian languages, most well-known of which are Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam and Tulu
 Eskimo–Aleut languages, namely Aleut, Inuktitut, and Yupik
 Esperanto
 Igboid languages
 Iranic languages, namely Persian, Ossetian
 Japanese language
 Kartvelian languages
 Korean language
 many Tibeto-Burman languages
 many Uralic languages, namely Hungarian, Finnish and Sami languages
 Mongolic languages
 Muskogean languages
 Northeast and Northwest Caucasian languages
 Quechua languages and Aymara
 Siouan languages, namely Lakota and Yuchi
 some Mesoamerican and native North American languages including Nahuatl, Huastec, and Salish
 Tungusic languages
 Turkic languages
 Vasconic languages namely Basque, and the extinct Aquitanian
 Somali language

 References 

Category:Languages