Scythian language is the type of what is called an “agglutinative” structure, as distinguished from the “inflective” Indo-European. By this is meant that the elements of various origin which make up Scythian words and forms are more loosely aggregated, preserve more independence, than do the Indo-European; there is far less integration of the parts, with disguise and obliteration of their separate entity.
- Whitney (1875), a pag.232