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What is the longest word without a vowel in any language? However, user6726 recognized (as I suspected) that a better way to pose the question is: "Can we ask what the longest word without vowels is?" and provided a great response to it This, I think, has a lot to do with the scientific study of language So what do you say I edit the question with this in mind?
What language has the longest word for no and yes? What is the reason that such long words stayed in the language, rather than evolving into an abridged version of the word? Edit: The intention of my post was to see if other languages had long words for "yes" and "no" when directly translated
Longest word in all languages - Linguistics Stack Exchange Could there more than longest word as mentioned in the above link in all languages? The pronunciation of the word becomes difficult as the word length increases Can we have a database of all longest words in all languages? Tracing longest word s in Arabic,French,Italian,German,Spanish,Dutch, Japanese etc
Are the longest German and Turkish words really single words? Un- is a prefix and -able is a suffix One of the best definitions of ‘word’ that I’ve come across is that it can be meaningfully uttered in isolation and used to fill a slot in the syntax of the language in question That’s true of break, but not un- or -able (which is different from able) In the German example, it works fine for Kraft, Fahrzeug, Pflicht, etc ; those are all words
frequency - most frequent syllables - Linguistics Stack Exchange I am looking for a list of the most frequent syllables of all languages spoken on earth, sorted by frequency I found such lists for english and for german, but I want to get a list across all lan
Is there a language with but one vowel sound? Also (though less relevant to my question), I don't understand why you say a longest English word can't exist: English has been around a finite number of seconds, spoken by a finite number of people, so there've been finitely many words spoken; surely one of them is longest
Consonant clusters in English - how many exist exactly? If you're using a word-list like a dictionary as your data source, then your list of possible clusters will depend on how many and which type of low-frequency words the dictionary-makers choose to include
english - Why are some consonant clusters acceptable in some languages . . . Furthermore, there is at best an informal seat of the pants method of selecting from the attested languages of the world that avoids the problem that most human languages are members of one of two language groups (Niger-Congo and Austronesian), which happen to be very similar in terms of syllable structure