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{{Short description|Process of word formation by combining morphemes of singular meaning}}
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[[Image:Trilingv.jpg|thumb|The middle sign is in [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]], which agglutinates extensively. (The top and bottom signs are in [[Romanian language|Romanian]] and [[German language|German]], respectively, both [[Fusional language|inflecting languages]].) The [[English language|English]] translation is "Ministry of Food and Agriculture: [[Satu Mare County]] Directorate General of Food and Agriculture".]]

In [[linguistics]], '''agglutination''' is a [[morphology (linguistics)|morphological]] process in which words are formed by stringing together [[morpheme]]s (word parts), each of which corresponds to a single [[Syntax|syntactic]] feature. Languages that use agglutination widely are called [[agglutinative language]]s. For example, in the agglutinative [[Turkish language|Turkish]], the word {{lang|tr|evlerinizden}} ("from your houses") consists of the morphemes ''ev-ler-i-n-iz-den''. Agglutinative languages are often contrasted with [[isolating language]]s, in which words are monomorphemic, and [[fusional language]]s, in which words can be complex, but morphemes may correspond to multiple features.