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Many separate languages developed this property through [[convergent evolution]]. There seems to exist a preferred evolutionary direction from agglutinative synthetic languages to [[fusional languages|fusional synthetic languages]], and then to [[analytic language|non-synthetic languages]], which in their turn evolve into [[isolating language]]s and from there again into agglutinative synthetic languages. However, this is just a trend, and in itself a combination of the trend observable in [[Grammaticalisation|Grammaticalization theory]] and that of general linguistic attrition, especially word-final [[apocope]] and [[elision]]. This phenomenon is known as [[Drift (linguistics)|language drift]].

Some real-world and [[constructed language]]s, such as [[Esperanto]], [[Newspeak]], [[Klingon language|Klingon]], [[Quenya]], [[Atlantean language|Atlantean]] and [[Black Speech]], are presented as agglutinative. {{Fact|date=June 2009}}

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