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PRONUNCIATION OF AGGLUTINATING LANGUAGE

agglutinating language  [əˈɡluːtɪˌneɪtɪŋ ˈlæŋɡwɪdʒ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF AGGLUTINATING LANGUAGE

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Agglutinating language is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES AGGLUTINATING LANGUAGE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Agglutinative language

An agglutinative language is a type of synthetic language with morphology that primarily uses agglutination: words are formed by joining phonetically unchangeable affix morphemes to the stem. In agglutinative languages, each affix is a bound morpheme for one unit of meaning, instead of morphological modifications with internal changes of the root of the word, or changes in stress or tone. In an agglutinative language stems do not change, affixes do not fuse with other affixes, and affixes do not change form conditioned by other affixes. The term was introduced by Wilhelm von Humboldt to classify languages from a morphological point of view. It is derived from the Latin verb agglutinare, which means "to glue together". Non-agglutinative synthetic languages are fusional languages; morphologically, they combine affixes by "squeezing" them together, drastically changing them in the process, and joining several meanings in a single affix. The term agglutinative is sometimes incorrectly used as a synonym for synthetic. Used in this way, the term embraces both fusional languages and inflected languages.

Definition of agglutinating language in the English dictionary

The definition of agglutinating language in the dictionary is a language such as Hungarian in which words are built up from component morphemes in such a way that these undergo little or no change of form or meaning in the process of combination.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH AGGLUTINATING LANGUAGE


advantage
ədˈvɑːntɪdʒ
age
eɪdʒ
average
ˈævərɪdʒ
bridge
brɪdʒ
college
ˈkɒlɪdʒ
coverage
ˈkʌvərɪdʒ
damage
ˈdæmɪdʒ
heritage
ˈhɛrɪtɪdʒ
image
ˈɪmɪdʒ
knowledge
ˈnɒlɪdʒ
language
ˈlæŋɡwɪdʒ
messuage
ˈmɛswɪdʒ
metalanguage
ˈmɛtəˌlæŋɡwɪdʒ
nonlanguage
ˌnɒnˈlæŋɡwɪdʒ
paralanguage
ˈpærəˌlæŋɡwɪdʒ
protolanguage
ˌprəʊtəʊˈlæŋɡwɪdʒ
sandwich
ˈsænwɪdʒ
slanguage
ˈslæŋɡwɪdʒ
squidge
skwɪdʒ
sublanguage
ˈsʌbˌlæŋɡwɪdʒ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE AGGLUTINATING LANGUAGE

aggie
aggiornamenti
aggiornamento
agglomerate
agglomeration
agglomerative
agglutinability
agglutinable
agglutinant
agglutinate
agglutination
agglutinative
agglutinin
agglutinogen
aggrace
aggradation
aggrade
aggrandise
aggrandisement
aggrandiser

WORDS THAT END LIKE AGGLUTINATING LANGUAGE

American sign language
artificial language
body language
command language
community language
English as a Foreign Language
English as a Second Language
first language
formal language
high-level language
modern language
native language
natural language
plain language
programming language
second language
sign language
source language
speak the same language
target language
Unified Modeling Language

Synonyms and antonyms of agglutinating language in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «agglutinating language» into 25 languages

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The translations of agglutinating language from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «agglutinating language» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

凝集语言
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

lengua aglutinante
570 millions of speakers

English

agglutinating language
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

agglutinating भाषा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

اللغة راصة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

агглютинированная язык
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

língua aglutinante
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সংগ্রামী ভাষা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

langue agglutinante
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bahasa agglutinating
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

agglutinierende Sprache
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

凝集言語
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

응집제 언어
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Basa agglutinating
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ngôn ngữ agglutinating
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஒருங்கிணைந்த மொழி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

संमिश्र भाषा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Aglit etme dili
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

lingua agglutinante
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

język aglutynująca
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

агглютініровалісь мову
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

limba de aglutinare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

συγκολλητικός γλώσσα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

aglutiniseringskrag taal
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

agglutinerande språk
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

agglutiner språk
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about agglutinating language

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AGGLUTINATING LANGUAGE»

Discover the use of agglutinating language in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to agglutinating language and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Linguistic Borrowing in Bilingual Contexts
An isolating language can borrow neither agglutinating nor fusional morphology. An agglutinating language can borrow agglutinating, but not fusional morphology . A fusional language can borrow both agglutinating and fusional morphology.
Fredric W. Field, 2002
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Linguistics: An Introduction
It is indeed the case that a 'perfect' isolating or agglutinating language would have the property that every morpheme would have just one meaning and every individual component of meaning expressible in the language would correspond to ...
Andrew Radford, 2009
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Hungarian Language Contact Outside Hungary: Studies on ...
Note also that HO can neither be considered an inflectional language nor an isolating language. It still contains the morphological properties of an agglutinating language, as can be witnessed in forms such as szepitette, szeket, and letszama ...
Anna Fenyvesi, 2005
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Morphology: Critical Concepts in Linguistics
Estonian which has changed from an agglutinating to an inflecting language has as much suppletion as most typically inflecting languages. Tokharian which has changed from an inflecting to a rather agglutinating language has lost most of its  ...
Francis Katamba, 2004
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Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics
5.3.7 Turkish: an 'agglutinating' language It is the distinction between agglutinating and inflecting languages (both types being 'synthetic') which is more interesting for our present purpose. An agglutinating language is one in which words are ...
John Lyons, 1968
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Typological Changes in the Lexicon: Analytic Tendencies in ...
The idea of the model is that languages move along a “cycle of change”, by which a fusional language may develop into an isolating one, an isolating language may become agglutinating, an agglutinating language may move towards a ...
Alexander Haselow, 2011
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English Words
3.6.2 Get the glue (agglutinating languages) In an ideal agglutinating language most words contain more than one morpheme and the morphemes are realised by morphs arranged in rows like corn on the cob. The morphs can be neatly ...
Francis Katamba, 2002
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Universals of Language Today
By the criterion of average rank, Tauya turns out to be the “most agglutinating” language, while Kannada is the “least agglutinating” language, and Indo- European languages such as Latin and German are also close to the bottom. This accords ...
Sergio Scalise, Elisabetta Magni, Antonietta Bisetto, 2008
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The History of English
... than English. This is one reason the language is well suited to written characters rather than an alphabet—it does not make use of endings added to words. Japanese, an agglutinating language with a writing system based on Chinese ...
Scott Shay, 2008
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Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics
Hadumod Bussmann Kerstin Kazzazi, Gregory Trauth. agglutinating language 1 since 1 875. Afrikaans is the only creole that has been elevated to an official language (1926 - along with English, in the Republic of South Africa and in Namibia); ...
Hadumod Bussmann, Kerstin Kazzazi, Gregory Trauth, 2006

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AGGLUTINATING LANGUAGE»

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Who said the Meitei lon is Tibeto-Burman? Dr GRIERSON, but he …
Typologically, Meitei lon is an agglutinating language and there are some similarities in vocabulary at the morphological level with the ... «KanglaOnline, Mar 11»

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