In phonology, vowel harmony is a phonological process in which vowels assimilate to share certain distinctive features. Vowel harmony is often confined to the domain of a phonological word, but may ex
Finnish vowel harmony and case agreement exemplified by mahdollisissa yllättävissä tilanteissa ('in possible unexpected situations'): mahdollinen takes -ssa, yllättävä takes -ssä and tilanne, with a neutral vowel first but a back vowel second, takes -ssa.
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".