What is the longest word in Iceland?

Vaðlaheiðarvegavinnuverkfærageymsluskúrslyklakippuhringurinn! This is the longest word in the Icelandic language and has 64 letters. It translates to “the key ring to the tool work shed in the road works of Mount Vaðlaheiði”.
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How many letters are in the longest Icelandic word?

An Icelandic word with 64 letters

It is literally translated as follows: "A ring on a key ring for the outer door of the tool shed used by road maintenance workers on Vaðlaheiði hill.”
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What does Vaðlaheiðarvegavinnuverkfærageymsluskúrslyklakippuhringurinn mean?

The longest word in Icelandic is Vaðlaheiðarvegavinnuverkfærageymsluskúrslyklakippuhringurinn. It's a composed word and means the key ring to the tool work shed in the road works of Vaðlaheiði, a mountain road in North Iceland.
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What is the longest word in the world?

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest word entered in the most trusted English dictionaries.
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Does anyone speak Icelandic?

Aside from the 300,000 Icelandic speakers in Iceland, it is spoken by about 8,000 people in Denmark, 5,000 people in the United States, and more than 1,400 people in Canada, notably in the region known as New Iceland in Manitoba which was settled by Icelanders beginning in the 1880s.
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How do u say hi in Iceland?

Hæ/ Halló

Starting with the very basics, here are your generic greetings; both simply mean hello. You use these the same way you would in the English language. “Hæ” is more common and it is often said twice in a greeting “Hæ hæ”.
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What is the full word of Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl?

Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl… isoleucine is the chemical name for the protein of “titin” also known as “connectin.” The largest known protein that consists of 26, 926 amino acids is made up of 189, 819 letters and can take about three hours to pronounce.
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Is there a word with 1000 letters?

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

It's a technical word referring to the lung disease more commonly known as silicosis.
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What words have 3 A's in them?

smaaahl
  • smaaahl.
  • staaamp.
  • usafaaa.
  • saaarmm.
  • ofaaabc.
  • ospaaal.
  • qjaaahl.
  • rafhaaa.
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What is the longest word in Korean?

The longest word in Korean is 청자양인각연당초상감모란문은구대접. It is 17 syllable blocks – which doesn't look very long to anyone who doesn't read Korea. But it has 46 Hangul letters – so that's pretty long! It describes a kind of ceramic bowl.
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What's the longest word in Russian?

Russian. Most likely one of the longest Russian words is a chemical term тетрагидропиранилциклопентилтетрагидропиридопиридиновая (tetragidropiranilciklopentiltetragidropiridopiridinovaya), which contains 55 letters. It was used in Russian patent RU2285004C2 (granted and published in 2006).
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What is the longest German word?

So the longest word to be found in the German dictionary is Kraftfahrzeughaftpflichtversicherung – "motor vehicle indemnity insurance".
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What is Ð called?

Eth (/ɛð/, uppercase: Ð, lowercase: ð; also spelled edh or eð), known as ðæt in Old English, is a letter used in Old English, Middle English, Icelandic, Faroese (in which it is called edd), and Elfdalian.
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How do you say double L in Icelandic?

Double-l is pronounced like tl. Allt (everything) is pronounced like atlt.
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T is inserted between the two consonants:
  1. snjókarl (snowman) is pronounced snjókartl.
  2. barnalæknir (pediatrician) is pronounced bartnalæknir.
  3. asni (donkey) is pronounced astni.
  4. veisla (party) is pronounced veistla.
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What word takes 3 hours to say?

You will be surprised to know that the longest word in English has 1, 89,819 letters and it will take you three and a half hours to pronounce it correctly. This is a chemical name of titin, the largest known protein.
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What word has 3.5 hours to say?

That's called: Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia and it's one of the longest words in the dictionary.
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How do you say Aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminosocupreovitriolic?

Aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminosocupreovitriolic (AYK-wee-oh-SAY-lin-noh-kal-KAL-lin-noh-suh-RAY-see-oh-uh-LOOM-in-noh-soh-KOOP-ree-yoh-vit-tree-YOLL-lik) is an adjective coined about three centuries ago to elucidate the properties of the spa waters at Bath.
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What's the longest word in Japanese?

A funny phrase in japanese is “toragahitowokamoutosurutokinounarinow” 虎が人を噛もうとするときのうなり声。 It is 37 letters long and is comprised of a 17 syllables. It is a very odd phrase, as it is defined as “the growl a tiger makes when it is about to about to bite someone”.
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What is a 40 letter word?

1 Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (forty-five letters): A lung disease caused by the inhalation of silica or quartz dust.
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Does Z exist in Icelandic?

Although the language is written in Latin script, its alphabet has unique features. It has a total of 32 letters. The English letters c, q, w, and z do not exist in the Icelandic alphabet.
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Is Icelandic hard to learn?

In fact, Icelandic has been consistently ranked as one of the hardest languages for English speakers to learn as a result of the archaic vocabulary and complex grammar.
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What sound does æ make in Icelandic?

Æ – æ: Simply, Æ is pronounced like an uppercase I. Always. You can also remember it as sounding like YE in the word “bye” (bæ). Ö – ö: Ö is different from O (pronounced like O in the English word “ought” or “fought”) and Ó (pronounced like the English O in “oh” or “over”).
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