In the case that anyone wants an example om polysyntethic languages, here is one from Siberian Yupik as spoken on St. Lawrence Island:<br>(taken from Steven Jacobson's litterature)<br>Angyaghllangyugtuqlu - Also he/she/it wants to aquire a big boat<br>The process is as follows:<br><br>Angya-ghlla-ng-yug-tuq-lu<br><br>"angyagh/" is a nominal root meaning "boat".<br>"-ghllag/" is a noun-elaborating postbase meaning "big".<br>"-nge/" is a verbalizing postbase meaning "to aquire".<br><br>This means that so far we have an expanded verbal base angyaghllange/ that means "to aquire a big boat".<br><br>"~ᶠyug/" is a verb-elaborating postbase meaning "to want".<br>"~ᶠ(t)(g)uq" is a verbal ending meaning 3. person singular intransitive, indicative mood<br>"=llu" is an enclitic meaning "also".<br><br>At this point you might say, "where did the e in "-nge/" or the final g in "-ghllag/" go?"<br>The answer is all those pesky things like - or ~ᶠ, that indicates that all the suffixes follows different rules for how sound change and merge that I have spend hours trying to comprehend but still can't.