Thread: What's the longest Russian word?

Just wondering what's the longest Russian word that you know of. So far I've found the word "достопримечательность", which in the tourism industry is a common and important word.

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Originally Posted by Ramil

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Wow, the Russian wiki is really thorough. The longest word that's used with any degree of frequency is человеконенавистничество a 24 letter word meaning hatred of mankind. Emmmmmm, not such a nice word after all.

And in English:

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (technical term) - a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust causing inflammation in the lungs

Floccinaucinihilipilification (non-technical, coined) - the act of describing something as worthless

Antidisestablishmentarianism (neither technical nor coined)

Honorificabilitudinitatibus (longest word shakespeare ever used) - the state of being able to achieve honors

Of course, you could make these words longer by agglutination, adding more suffixes and so on.

So you could say floccinaucinihilipilificationismificationismize and so on to infinity.

Originally Posted by Trzeci_Wymiar

[b]Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

This one is also coined for the Guinness Book (?).

It is claimed that the longest Bulgarian word is the one given below:

Не противоконституционствува телствувайте! - Do not act against the Constitution!

Originally Posted by christo_tamarin

It is claimed that the longest Bulgarian word is the one given below:

Не противоконституционствува телствувайте! - Do not act against the Constitution!

That's interesting. Is Russian the main language there too?

Originally Posted by tohca

Originally Posted by christo_tamarin

It is claimed that the longest Bulgarian word is the one given below:

Не противоконституционствува телствувайте! - Do not act against the Constitution!

That's interesting. Is Russian the main language there too?

No. Strangely enough, it's Bulgarian.

Originally Posted by xRoosterx

Originally Posted by tohca

Originally Posted by christo_tamarin

It is claimed that the longest Bulgarian word is the one given below:

Не противоконституционствува телствувайте! - Do not act against the Constitution!

That's interesting. Is Russian the main language there too?

No. Strangely enough, it's Bulgarian.

Well, well. They looked similar. Are they?

Bulgarian monks Cyril and Mefodius brought the letters for ancient slavic language.

Originally Posted by Leof

Bulgarian monks Cyril and Mefodius brought the letters for ancient slavic language.

That explains the similar writing, but are the vocabulary and grammar similar too? I'm sure it cannot be identical.

Originally Posted by Rtyom

Originally Posted by Trzeci_Wymiar

[b]Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

This one is also coined for the Guinness Book (?).

Yeah, it really has no practical application and was contrived for the sole purpose of smashing records.

Originally Posted by tohca

Originally Posted by Leof

Bulgarian monks Cyril and Mefodius brought the letters for ancient slavic language.

That explains the similar writing, but are the vocabulary and grammar similar too? I'm sure it cannot be identical.

Not exactly. Some words may be similar, but Bulgarian almost completely eradicated the case system (one of the main features of Slavic languages). For example, instead of the genitive they use the preposition "на".

Originally Posted by Yazeed

Originally Posted by tohca

Originally Posted by Leof

Bulgarian monks Cyril and Mefodius brought the letters for ancient slavic language.

That explains the similar writing, but are the vocabulary and grammar similar too? I'm sure it cannot be identical.

Not exactly. Some words may be similar, but Bulgarian almost completely eradicated the case system (one of the main features of Slavic languages). For example, instead of the genitive they use the preposition "на".

Thanks for the interesting info. You guys really know so much.

A lot of Old Church Slavonic words entered the Russian language. Old Church Slavonic was basically a dialect of Bulgarian, this is why Russian and Bulgarian are more similar, than say Polish and Bulgarian.

Originally Posted by tohca

Originally Posted by Leof

Bulgarian monks Cyril and Mefodius brought the letters for ancient slavic language.

That explains the similar writing, but are the vocabulary and grammar similar too? I'm sure it cannot be identical.

Come on surely you must have a basic understanding of how languages work?

German and English look similar, does that mean they are the same language? Bulgarian and Russian are both Slavonic (/Slavic) languages, i.e. they belong to the same language family, they have a lot in common.

Originally Posted by christo_tamarin

It is claimed that the longest Bulgarian word is the one given below:

Не противоконституционствува телствувайте! - Do not act against the Constitution!

It's funny that the longest word in French (not including chemical terms) is also about constitution :
"Anticonstitutionnellement" (25 letters) means "against the Constitution".

But, well, they have common roots right

If in Russian you said:

"the one hundred and twenty six million five hundred and ninety two thousand three hundred and four year-old witch"

In theory, couldn't you construct a single Russian word ending:

-летний ???