What does agglutinating mean?
Describing a language in which words are formed by adding prefixes and suffixes to roots, without changing the root's form. This is in contrast to fusional languages, where the root's form changes when it is modified.
Example
"The linguist studied the agglutinating language of the indigenous tribe, noting its complex system of prefixes and suffixes."
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