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Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitan
- osdotsystem 7y agoActually thought this was spam!
- stigi 7y agoI would not dare :) But the title would actually overrun the limit by 4 characters. But I still thought it would be interesting to share. I love the colorful description in the name. Also I like That German is not the only language with loooong names :)
- ChrisGranger 7y agoEximperituserqethhzebibšiptugakkathšulweliarzaxułum should write a song about this place.
- eindiran 7y agoGiven how long the name was, I was guessing that Māori would have a highly synthetic morphology (meaning a language where the words are very long and composed of lots of little parts), but turns out it is largely analytic (the opposite: the language doesn't have complex words, but uses helper words and syntax to convey the information instead), which I was quite surprised to find out! The wiki article has some brief info on its morphology: [2] But its not completely without morphology: like most Polynesian languages, it has reduplication. Apparently its used to mark plurals when inside of a noun, or to intensify the meaning of a word: [3] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polysynthetic_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polysynthetic_language [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic_language [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%81ori_language#Derivational_morphology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%81ori_language#Derivation... [3] https://lisatravis2012.wordpress.com/2017/10/19/reduplication-in-maori/ https://lisatravis2012.wordpress.com/2017/10/19/reduplicatio...