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膠着語

膠着語

See also: 膠著語

Japanese

Kanji in this term
膠	着	語
こう Hyōgaiji	ちゃく Grade: 3	ご Grade: 2
on'yomi

Noun

膠着語 ‎(hiragana こうちゃくご, romaji kōchakugo)

(linguistics) agglutinative language (a language that forms words by attaching morphemes together)

Coordinate terms

屈折語 (くっせつご) ‎(kussetsugo, “inflectional language”)
孤立語 (こりつご) ‎(koritsugo, “isolating language”)

References

1998, 広辞苑 (Kōjien), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 4000801112