Many linguists consider the Turkish language to belong to the Uralic-Altaic family of
languages with Turkish being grouped in the Altaic branch along with languages such as
Japanese, Korean and Mongolian. Languages in the Uralic branch of this family include
Finnish and Hungarian. All of the languages of the Ural-Altaic family are grouped
together due to certain common characteristics; namely, syntax, morphology and
phonology. For example, like Finnish and Hungarian, Turkish is an agglutinative
language. Agglutination refers to the process of adding suffixes to a root-word thus
transforming a single word which in some cases could result in a phrase or a complete
sentence depending on the chain of suffixes attached