fusional language

For fusion in word-formation, see Assimilation (linguistics). A fusional language (also called inflecting 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; in general, all conservative Indo-European languages are fusional. Another notable group of fusional languages is the Semitic languages group. A high degree of fusion is also found in many Sami languages, such as Skolt Sami.A good illustration of fusionality in language is the Latin word bonus, "good" (masculine). The ending -us denotes masculine gender, nominative case, and singular number. Changing any of these features requires replacement of the suffix -us with something else.
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