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What are agglutinating, isolating, and inflecting languages?

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What are agglutinating, isolating, and inflecting languages?

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Agglutinating languages tend to form utterances by stringing many affixes together to build up meaning. Isolating languages are the opposite, using separate particles to show meaning relationships. Inflecting or fusional languages are like agglutinating languages in that they use affixes, but they differ in that the affixes tend to conflate meanings into combination-affixes, instead of having a string of separate affixes.