Kalman Noel wrote:
wren ng thornton schrieb:
Chris Forno (jekor) wrote:
That being said, Esperanto, and even Japanese sentence structure perhaps is not as different as an agglutinative language like German. I'll need to study it more to find out. Actually, Japanese is agglutinative too (moreso than German is).
I take it the above calling German agglutinative was sort of a typo, because well, it isn't, except having many compound words.
Indeed. The proliferation of compound words is noteworthy, but it's not generally considered an agglutinative language. From what (very little) German I know compounds tend to be restricted to nouns, as opposed to languages like Turkish, Japanese, Korean,...
Esperanto, on the other hand, is usually described as agglutinative.
I'll take your word for it :) -- Live well, ~wren