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Don't need to go up that far north. This is just a trait of Germanic languages including Dutch in Belgium/Netherlands.

• dindresto 7y ago
  Flugscham, Reichweitenangst, ...
• CogitoCogito 7y ago
  Don't even need to leave English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_compound https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_compound
  • Insanity 7y ago
    Yeah but English (in Europe) would be more north than the others! :D (Also, English is Germanic so it's included in what I commented anyway :P)
• pferde 7y ago
  Indeed, German language is apparently the worst: http://www.learn-german-language-online.com/long-german-words.html http://www.learn-german-language-online.com/long-german-word...
• speleding 7y ago
  What's more, I remember reading about "vliegschaamte" in a Dutch newspaper recently so the word has arrived here too.