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| | Encyclopedia: Agglutinative |
 | | Synthetic languages which are not agglutinative are called fusional languages; they sometimes combine affixes by "squeezing" them together, often changing them drastically in the process, and joining several meanings in one affix (for example, a single short verbal suffix means "past tense, perfect aspect, first person singular"). |
 | | Examples of agglutinative languages are Uralic languages, Altaic languages, Korean, Dravidian languages, Inuktitut, Swahili, Malay, and some Mesoamerican languages including Nahuatl, Huastec, and Iran and the Ancient Near East also spoke such languages, like Sumerian, Elamite, Hurrian, Urartian, Hattic, Gutian, Lullubi, Kassite. |
 | | Agglutinative languages are not entirely grouped by the family (although Hungarian are related, as are possibly Japanese and Korean). |
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