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The longest word in Greenlandic is ... was cited in 1993 by the Danish version of the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest word in the Danish language at 51 ...
It has gained a measure of fame as it is the longest place name found in any English-speaking country, and possibly the longest place name in the world, according to World Atlas. [2] The name of the hill (with 85 characters) has been listed in the Guinness World Records as the longest place name. Other versions of the name, including longer ...
Greenlandic is a polysynthetic language that allows the creation of long words by stringing together roots and suffixes. The language's morphosyntactic alignment is ergative, treating both the argument (subject) of an intransitive verb and the object of a transitive verb in one way, but the subject of a transitive verb in another.
Believed to be the longest official one-word place name in the United States. Tweebuffelsmeteenskootmorsdoodgeskietfontein (44 letters) Farm in the North West province of South Africa: Afrikaans "The spring where two buffaloes were shot stone-dead with one shot". Notes: The longest one-word place name in Africa.
Greenlandic phonology allows clusters of two consonants, but phonetically, the first consonant in a cluster is assimilated to the second one resulting in a geminate consonant. If the first consonant is /ʁ/ or /q/ , it nevertheless opens/retracts the preceding vowel, which in case of /i/ and /u/ is then written e and o .
But, Parade is here to tell you the longest word, accompanied by the 20 longest words in English and their meanings. The English language is vast, eclectic and a little bit complicated. Among the ...
The official language of Greenland is Greenlandic.The number of speakers of Greenlandic is estimated at 50,000 (85-90% of the total population), divided in three main dialects, Kalaallisut (West-Greenlandic, 44,000 speakers and the dialect that is used as official language), Tunumiit (East-Greenlandic, 3,000 speakers) and Inuktun (North-Greenlandic, 800 speakers).
At 58 characters it is the longest place name in the United Kingdom and second longest official one-word place name in the world. SEE MORE: Watch Naomi Watts pronounce the longest town name in Britain