What is the Longest word in your language?

[holy king]

How about Hottentottenstottertrottelmutterlattengitterkotter beutelrattenattentater then?

(obviously without the space)

A friend of mine sent me this word in an email a while ago.

well, you can play that game infinitly with german, so it's kind of moot.

 

[Mirc]

That word is very cool however because it always has the same kind of rhythm (ONE-two ONE-two ONE-two etc) and except for the "eu" in "-beutel-" it always goes "consonant - vowel, consonant - vowel, etc".

 

[gangleri2001]

Can Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis be translated into Castillian or Catalan? Google has it listed in Gallego and Portuguese...

I looked for it in my medical dictionaries with (obviously) no success at all. Anyway, I know a terminologist in both, Catalan and Spanish. I'm gonna ask her this monday about it.

 

[Furiey]

I thought it was Antidisestablishmentarianism in English (28 letters) but there seem to be a lot of new words overtaking that.

 

[North King]

That's the longest non-coined, non-scientific word.

If we're going to add coined or scientific words into the mix, look up the full name of titin and call it a day.

 

[Dumanios]

A word for a certain part of DNA in my native language is over 1,000 letters long.

 

[Arwon]

I looked for it in my medical dictionaries with (obviously) no success at all. Anyway, I know a terminologist in both, Catalan and Spanish. I'm gonna ask her this monday about it.

Cool. By the way, by google I meant the gallego and portuguese wikipedias.

 

[Yeekim]

Simply "the longest" is kind of pointless.
In many(most?) languages you can just join words together endlessly (like in the German example above).

So...
What is the longest legit word in your language, that reads exactly the same from right to left and from left to right?

In Estonian: "kuulilennuteetunneliluuk" (24).

 

[Dachs]

Tattarrattat (12), but it's coined. Silly James Joyce.

But "God, a red nugget! A fat egg under a dog!" (29) is also palindromic...

 

[Yeekim]

palindromic

Yes. Palindrome. The term I was searching for...!

 

[Firestorm94]

This is terrible for people with Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

 

[shatter_crime]

Well, the longest word in Indonesian is memperpraperadilankan (21 letters)
And it means sue in English (3 letters)

 

[Huaojozu]

Dunno if there is another fellow Czech player here but here are soem czech words.

The longest actually used word:
Nejneobhospodařovávatelnějšími with 30 letters. Loosely translates to The most unable to be worked (as in a land).

The longest grammatically correct word:
Nejzdevětadevadesáteroneroznásobitelnějšími with 43 letters. Loosely translates to The most dividable by 99 (7th declination).

 

[Formaldehyde]

No one is currently studying Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis in any modern research lab. It's the next Dihydroxy Oxide.

Whatever happened to antidisestablishmentarianism?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antidisestablishmentarianism

The word "antidisestablishmentarianism" itself is often referenced in English-speaking popular culture due to its unusual length of 28 letters and 12 syllables. It is commonly believed to be the longest word in the English language, excluding coined and technical terms not found in major dictionaries.

Recently, the 2007 edition of Guinness Book of World Records listed "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis" as the longest word in the English language. The medical term is a lung disease, caused by the "inhalation of very fine silica dust from volcanoes." The disease may make it harder to breathe, and people with it need to be hooked up to a lung machine (an artificial lung). This too was a purposely coined word, with the explicit intent of being a long word.[1] The condition described is more conventionally referred to as "silicosis".

 

[luiz]

In portuguese we can't lump a bunch of words together, because, well, it is not a barbarian language.
Other than words that define diseases, such as "Pneumoultramicroscopicossilicovulcanoconiótico" or "Hipopotomonstrosesquipedaliofobia", the longest word is "Anticonstitucionalissimamente", a synonim of the more famous "Inconstitucionalissimamente", which are adverbs for the highest possible degree of unconstitutionality.

 

[Formaldehyde]

In portuguese we can't lump a bunch of words together, because, well, it is not a barbarian language.

You mean like ... German?

 

[eastsidebagel]

You mean like ... German?

You ***********************!!!

 

[luiz]

You mean like ... German?

German and all its offspring.

 

[Masada]

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu

 

[Bill3000]

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu

This thread is for real languages only. Constructed languages for your silly fantasy world don't count.