Agglutination
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In linguistics, agglutination is a morphological process in which words are formed by stringing together morphemes, each of which corresponds to a single syntactic feature. Languages that use agglutin
The middle sign is in Hungarian, which agglutinates extensively. (The top and bottom signs are in Romanian and German, respectively, both inflecting languages.) The English translation is "Ministry of Food and Agriculture: Satu Mare County Directorate General of Food and Agriculture".
Dravidian languages
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The Dravidian languages are a family of languages spoken by 250 million people, primarily in South India, but also in parts of North India, Bangladesh and Nepal, north-east Sri Lanka, and south-west P
Agglutination
…Oraya gideyim" meaning "May I go there" or "When I get there") and "-imiz" making it become "we". Similarly, this suffix means "our" and not "we". Dravidian languages are agglutinative. For example, in Tamil, the word "அதைப்பண்ணமுடியாதவர்களுக்காகவும்" (ataippaṇṇamuṭiyātavarkaḷukkākavum) means "and for the sake of…
A pentalingual highway sign in Kochi written in Malayalam, English, Hindi, Tamil and Kannada.
Language families in South Asia
The oldest known Tamil-Brahmi inscription, near Mangulam in Madurai district