Board Thread:Linguistics/@comment-92.138.233.145-20130103105343/@comment-2040889-20130103162059

The thing is, synthetic and agglutinating languages are really close, except for one thing dividing them: information density.

A synthetic language can give more information in one suffix than an agglutinating language - where the agglutinating language uses one morpheme for tense, one for person, one for number and one for aspect, a synthetic language uses one morpheme for all of those.