Fusional Languages: Similar to agglutinating languages, except that the morpheme boundaries are much more difficult to discern. Affixes are often fused with the stems, and can have multiple meanings. A prime example of a fusional language is
Spanish, especially when it comes to verbs. In the word
hablo ”I speak”, the
-o morpheme tells us that we’re dealing with a subject that is singular, first person, and in the present tense. It’s difficult to find a morpheme that means “speak”, however, since
habl- is not a morpheme. Fusional languages can be tricky!