This reminds me a lot of Chinese. Many of the words are 2-3 character descriptions. Eg the word for machine is used as a suffix for flying machine (airplane), t

This reminds me a lot of Chinese. Many of the words are 2-3 character descriptions. Eg the word for machine is used as a suffix for flying machine (airplane), thinking machine (computer), washing machine etc. For historical reasons related to steam engines, the word for train roughly translates as fire machine. Another good example is how ying can be combined with the character for land to describe England (ying guo), further combined with people to describe the English (ying guo ren), or combined with the character for writing to describe English (ying wen). The same thing works for France (fa guo), Germany (de guo), America (mei guo) etc. It also works with the generic word for foreign. Foreign country (wai guo), foreigner (wai guo ren), foreign language (wai wen). My personal favorite is the word for faucet translates as "water dragons head".