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The other Germanic languages, of course, make use of similar
compounds. In Danish, the longest word I have heard of is
"Speciallægepraksisplanlægningsstabiliseringsperiode" (51 letters),
which was recorded in the Guiness Book of Records back in 1993.<br>
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According to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, German have had an
even longer official word of 67 letters
"Grundstücksverkehrsgenehmigungszuständigkeitsübertragungsverordnung",
but this word was dropped by the Bundesland Berlin in 2007.
<p>Outside the Germanic languages, polysynthetic languages are
well-known for their capacity to form very long words. Inuit
languages do so by means of derivation, not compounding. One
example is Greenlandic where you can find a real tongue twister
like the 94 letter word "Nalunaarasuartaatilioqateeraliorfinnialikkersaatiginialikkersaatilillaranatagoorunarsuarooq".
It means something like: 'Yet again they attempted to build a
giant radio station, but apparently it was just on the drawing
board'. As you can see, when translated it must be rendered with a
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Lars Trap-Jensen<br>
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Den 05/06/13 00.02, Bill Poser skrev:
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<p>Yes, Sanskrit has enormous compounds. There is a style in
which essentially the whole sentence is fused into a
single noun with the tense shown by the other word, a form
of "be", along the lines of "there was a glazing of a
large pot with a blue glaze by the potter".<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 12:50 AM,
Dr. Fritz Goerling <span dir="ltr"><<a
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<p><span style="font-size: 17.5pt;">Germany
Drops 63-Letter-Long Word From Official
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title="http://www.businessinsider.com/rindfleischetikettierungsberwachungsaufgabenbertragungsgesetz-2013-6
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<p><span>Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz.</span></p>
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