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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Turkish is agglutinative. One classic example is the provocative question:

Fotograflardakilerdenmisiniz?

This thing contains one independent noun, and all the rest of it is suffixes ( which are what Turkish uses to embody morphemes ), and the whole thing is a complete, understandable sentence:

"Are you one of the people in the photographs?"

And if you think that one is bad, they've got worse. I don't know any Sumerian, but it must be like this.
21 posted on 10/19/2002 5:07:21 PM PDT by thulldud
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To: thulldud
Thanks, I think!
27 posted on 10/19/2002 10:10:42 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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