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are, so to say, glued to verbs in order to form the conjugation, or prepositions to substantives to form the declension;—because it would not be a distinct character of nomadic tongues, only, for both in Sanskrit and Hebrew the conjugation and the declension were originally constituted, according to the same principles.
But that which distinguishes the Turanian languages (agglutinative) is, that the words, which form their conjugation and declension, are always susceptible of easy decomposition; and although in many cases the terminations keep their modificative value, as independent words, yet one sees, that these are modificative syllables, quite distinguished from the roots, to which they are joined.[1]
— The hypotheses advanced by the very learned linguist, M. Müller, are entirely identical with those, which Prof. Whitney has verified in the Scythic tongues, that he considered, as a complete type of the agglutinative family.
« By this term, adds Whitney, one means to say, that the elements of several origins, which compose the Scythic words and their forms are
- ↑ Science of lang. cit.
