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by sansnomme 2398 days ago
Simply put: a lot of grammar is based on appending to words. E.g. the Turkish word for book is Kitab (shared by a bunch of other middle eastern languages too). My Book is Kitabim. Your book is Kitabsin. (Note last example is vastly simplified, a proper Turkish speaker should correct it)

It allows for a lot of really short sentences; here's a nonsensical example:

His book is on fire - kitabı yanıyor.

The word endings is sufficient to provide context and meaning.

If you find Turkish to be too difficult to learn, try Malay. It's also agglutinative and used by ~300 million people (Malay and Indonesian are for all practical purposes the same language).

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These are actually mostly wrong

- Book = kitap, not kitab

- My book = kitabım, not kitabim

- Your book = kitabın, not kitabsin

The i is due to using English keyboard, it's a bit tricky to type the proper i without autocompletion.