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Conlangery #68: Agglutination

Conlangery Podcast

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What You Can Do With Agglutination

When you have more than one meaning on a single morphine, that's where you start going into the fusional route. A good dictionary of an Eskimo language is going to have a very short section that has actual roots for like caribou and whale fat. But then it comes a very long section with nothing but suffixes. And these suffixes have just incredible meanings. If something ends in a Q, it always triggers a certain type of change by hearing the word "Q" Nat Lang: That gets into another thing that I was thinking about or at least trying to think about during this interview.

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