Agglutinative language
type of synthetic language with morphology that primarily uses agglutination
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.
ExamplesEdit
ChinookEdit
- a–č–i–m–l–ud–a: (future–he–him–thee–to–give–future): "He will give it to you"[1]
HungarianEdit
- szent: holy
- szentség: holiness
- szentségtelen: holinessless
TurkishEdit
- ev–ler–den: (home–plural–from): "from the houses"[1]
KazakhEdit
- 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
ListEdit
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
- 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
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Agglutination – GRAMMAR". Britannica.