Fusional language
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A fusional language is a type of synthetic language, distinguished from agglutinative languages by its use of fewer morphemes for inflection or by its tendency to "squish together" many morphemes in a way which can be difficult to decode.
The canonical examples of fusional languages are Latin and German. Most European languages are relatively fusional. Esperanto, which is a construction language based in part on many European languages, is a particularly clean and simple example of a fusional language.
A good illustration of fusionality in language is the Latin word amo, "I love". The ending -o denotes indicative mood, first person, singular, present tense. Changing any of these features requires replacement of the suffix -o with something else.
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Fusional_language" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusional_language, used under the GNU Free Documentation License
