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Definition

A type of synthetic language in which the relationships between words in a sentence are indicated primarily by bound morphemes. In agglutinating languages, morphemes are joined together loosely so that it is easy to determine where the boundaries between morphemes are.

Source: Language Files, eleventh edition, edited by Vedrana Mihalicek and Christin Wilson