Recent convo I had on agglutination with some Turkish friends:
Me:
its pretty fascinating to compare tamil and turkish for their agglutination. its the same order and everything. Konusuyorum (konusu + yor + um) vs pesukiren (pesu +kir + en) for i am speaking (english which has limited agglutination so uses more words). i.e the order of verb-root + tense + possesive pronoun....and there is some kind of similar sounds too in way this is done.
Me:
definitely turks like tamils often prefer closing with consonants, rather than leaving open vowels at the end etc it seems (sound wise) and love the r, n and m in the morphology bits within the agglutinative follow ons
Me:
and this is why to non-agglutinative folks, both languages seem very fast spoken, but in our heads its not that fast at all, because we are auto conjugating from experience
Me:
i think overall the speed of message is same for most languages, just agglutination offers more precision immediately.
Turkish friend:
Yediremiyeceklerimizlerdenmişcesine.
Turkish friend:
As if you are from the ones whom we can't make eat.
Me:
actually its not so strange to tamils lol, we have some like these, not as extreme but they are there...really there is no definite limit in the rules, so its open ended, just as many adjectives and tenses that make sense with the original verb/item root
Me:
once you have agglutination deeply, it all follows same thing overall....especially if you have the character set that allows the precision too
Me:
thats where korean and japanese had a bit of brrake put on, by using chinese characters..... even though they are agglutinative, the written language meant it had to turn into separate words more often (given logogram nature of written chinese, its very different to alphabet)
Me:
and also why with time, japanese and korean formed their own scripts by breaking down chinese ones into constituents....though korean one started from scratch (hangul) compared to japanese one which just broke it down (kana)
Me:
but interesting this is common feature of altaic-steppe .... and its shared with south india too and couple other places of world