So Japanese is fairly isolating, but not quite. After all, every kanji has its own separate meaning, and is a word all on its own. But they can be conjoined to form a new word... sort of. The pronounciation is affected (well, sometimes), but the writing isn't. And since the language doesn't officially need any spaces, words are quite hard to distinguish in the first place.<br><br>And then Japanese is one of those languages that works with particles. Small words that give meaning to words or parts of the sentence. They don't affect pronounciation or writing, but they do change the context of a word (not the meaning!) while no particle has any meaning by its lonesome.<br><br>So... somewhere in between isolating and agglutenative I guess?,(reply>), @thany3 As the video pointed out, agglutinative languages in general are kind of defined by not really altering roots, but adding lots of affixes on. In that case, Japanese still sits firmly in the agglutinative category.,(reply>), As for conjugation, yes, well, maybe. But you could argue that it doesn't really change the root verb, as Japanese doesn't have "words" in the way that we think of them: ideally there are no spaces. Conjugated verbs <b>could</b> be thought of as a root verb + a suffix, rather than constructing a totally new word.,(reply>), @thany3 Actually," Japanese is pretty firmly agglutinative. Just look at this chart for verb conjugation in Japanese: <a href=""http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:AMB_Japanese_Verbs.pdf"">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:AMB_Japanese_Verbs.pdf</a><br><br><br>Note that that doesn't actually even fully capture how complex and long it can be. You can conjugate all the way to て form then add いる、ある、あげる、or a plenty of other auxiliaries which start the conjugation over again. And you can totally do it multiple times too", it's just that it kind of gets too complex to understand if you do.