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It seems from morphology section that it is an agglutinative language. This is a norm in these, like Kugelschreiber (ball pen) is a norm in Deutsch. I wonder wh
by wruza 4y ago
It seems from morphology section that it is an agglutinative language. This is a norm in these, like Kugelschreiber (ball pen) is a norm in Deutsch. I wonder why there’s a wiki article for this particular word.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agglutinative_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agglutinative_language
- hoseja 4y agoProbably because some insipid journalist wrote an article about it.
- bradrn 4y agoIndeed, Yaghan is highly agglutinative: e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahgan_language#Verbs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahgan_language#Verbs. Most of the languages in that region are. (In fact, most languages in the whole of the Americas are, with the notable exception of the Oto–Manguean family. Europe is atypical in having few highly agglutinative languages.)
- carschno 4y agoYou are right regarding Yahgan being an agglutinative language and that words like 'mamihlapinatapai' is a result of that. But -- apologies for being nit-picky -- your example does not fit that category. The German word 'Kugelschreiber' is just a compound (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_(linguistics) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_(linguistics)). The fact that compounds are typically written as a single word, as opposed to English, does not make German an agglutinative language; that is mostly a merely orthographic convention. German is considered a fusional (or inflected) language.
- wruza 4y agoYou’re right, I could use a more related example there.