Fusional language
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A fusional language is a type of synthetic language, distinguished from agglutinative languages by its tendency to "squish together" many morphemes in a way which can be difficult to segment.
The canonical examples of fusional languages are Latin and German, with Dutch as a close follow-up. Most European languages are relatively fusional.
A good illustration of fusionality in language is the Latin word amo, "I love". The ending -o denotes indicative mood, active voice, first person, singular, present tense. Changing any of these features requires replacement of the suffix -o with something else.
Spanish is a very good example of a fusional language. In the regular verb Hablar, meaning "to speak," the singular first-person present tense of the verb is hablo, the -o denoting the singular first-person present tense. Singular second-person present is hablas, third-person, habla, first person plural hablamos, second person plural hablaís, third person hablan. The endings -o -as -a -amos -aís -an denote the tense.
