It is always interesting to learn something unusual, out of the ordinary. These may be unusual places, people, natural phenomena and progress, but one cannot help but be surprised at the phenomena of human speech with a great many languages and dialects. And many publications are looking for unusual surnames, names, nicknames, and the longest name is one of the most popular queries on the Internet. So, it will be about that.
If you expand the world map and find the Hawaiian Islands known to everyone there, you can see the beautiful island of Honolulu. It was on this piece of land that an incident occurred whose heroine is recorded in the book of world records by Arthur Guinness as a person with the longest name in the world.
Background. A daughter was born to a local restaurant owner. The girl was growing, and it was time to get ready for first grade. But when the baby was brought to school, the teacher refused to write the future student in the journal. The reason for this was the too bulky name of the girl, consisting of 102 letters (the longest name simply did not fit in a cool magazine)! In native Hawaiian, it looks like this: Napu-Hala-Amo-On-On-Milestones-Aneka-Milestones-On-Nena-Hivea-Wawa-Keho-Kae-Onka-Hea-Leke-On-Ea-Nei-Nana -Keko-Nia-Oa-Oga-Ika-Van-Wanao. To an unusual Russian ear, this name will seem strange and incomprehensible, but in translation it sounds very nice: "The beautiful innumerable flowers of mountains and valleys begin to fill Hawaii in length and breadth with its fragrance."
From ancient times, many nations fought for their independence from others. Some resigned to their fate and stood under the patronage of more powerful rivals. (Louis Boussenard, in his book Captain Tear Off, describes the desperate battles of the Boers - a small nation in southern Africa - against a great British power. As a result, the royal army defeated the freedom-loving people, but the stubbornness with which he defended his independence is worthy of respect even with sides of Britain.) But there are also those who fight for their freedom to this day, and pride does not allow us to forget past grievances. So, in the north of Britain, the Welsh people live, waging an ongoing struggle even under the auspices of the British. This is manifested in many ways. For example, in the 1870th year, a small Welsh village received a very strange name from the inhabitants there - Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysilio gogogoch. It’s not by chance that it’s such a “catchy”, the Welsh people specifically called it a complex name so that no Englishman could pronounce it. As in the case of the Hawaiian girl, the translation of this word is much nicer than its original and sounds like: "The Church of St. Mary in the thickets of white hazel next to a swirl near the Church of St. Taisilio and the Red Cave." And this is far from the only case of the manifestation of pride of local residents.
It is also a problem for many people to pronounce Indian names. The names of various objects and phenomena of this people differ from the others due to the excessive presence of "j", "khtr" and many other letter combinations. So, a resident of India under the name Brahmatra has the longest name on the planet, consisting of 1478 letters! It includes geographical names, the names of scientists and a whole bunch of everything that does not lend itself to any explanation. And to read it, it will take no less than 15 minutes. But no one undertakes to do this, but for those who want to try, I will say right away that it is very difficult to find. Everyone who tried to do this concluded: either this is a myth launched for some reason, or, for unknown reasons, no one has published it anywhere.
But what about Russia? What is the longest Russian name? It turns out that this is one of the most common names - Constantine, although there are some variations. But of the Russians it is called him. Although if we take names that are almost never used, then Appolinaria and Panteleimon will be one letter longer. Alexandra and Efrosinha are leaders in the number of letters among female Russian names.
