Agglutinative languages take simple words and put them together into complex words (e.g. German). Fusional or inflected languages change words slightly, whether it be by adding affixes, changing tones, whatever, to change their role in a sentence (e.g. Latin). <br>Also, doesn't Chinese use agglutination? I think the word for refrigerator is a combination of ice+box.,(reply>), SlintEastwood Yeah, at the time of writing that I had an incorrect definition of agglutination. The word for what I described is compounding. I'm very embarrassed.,(reply>), sticking two words together is not agglutination