It's always interesting to learn something unusual, out of the ordinary. These may be unusual places, people, phenomena of nature and progress, but one cannot but be surprised at the phenomena of human speech in a great variety of 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, this is exactly what we are going to talk about.
If you expand the world map and find the well-known Hawaiian Islands there, you can see the beautiful island of Honolulu. It was on this piece of land that an incident occurred, the heroine of which is recorded in the Arthur Guinness Book of World Records as the person with the longest name in the world.
Backstory. A daughter was born in the family of a local restaurant owner. The girl grew up, and it was time to get ready for first grade. But when the baby was brought to school, the teacher refused to enter the future student in the journal. The reason for this was tooa cumbersome girl's name, consisting of 102 letters (the longest name simply did not fit in a class magazine)! In native Hawaiian, it looks like this: -Keko-Nia-Oa-Oga-Ika-Wan-Wanao. To an unaccustomed Russian ear, this name will seem strange and incomprehensible, but in translation it sounds very pleasant: “Beautiful innumerable flowers of mountains and valleys begin to fill Hawaii in length and width with their fragrance.”
Since ancient times, many nations fought for their independence from others. Some resigned themselves to their fate and stood under the auspices of stronger rivals. (Louis Boussinard, in his book "Captain Smash Head", describes the desperate battles of the Boers - a small people in southern Africa - against the great British power. As a result, the royal army defeated the freedom-loving people, but the stubbornness with which they defended their independence is worthy of respect even from side of Britain.) But there are those who fight for their freedom to this day, and pride does not allow to forget past grievances. So, in the north of Britain lives the Welsh people, waging an unceasing struggle, even under the auspices of the British. It shows up in many ways. For example, in 1870, a small Welsh village received a very strange name from the local inhabitants - Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysilio gogogoch. It is no coincidence that it is so “tricky”, the Welsh specifically called her a difficult name so that not a single Englishman could pronounce it. Likein the case of a Hawaiian girl, the translation of this word is much nicer than its original and sounds like: "St. Mary's Church in a thicket of white hazel next to a fast whirlpool near the church of St. Taysilio and the red cave." And this is far from the only case of local pride.
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 rest by the excessive presence of "j", "khtr" and many other letter combinations. So, a resident of India under the surname Brahmatra has the longest name on the planet, consisting of 1478 letters! It includes geographical names, names of scientists and a whole bunch of everything that defies any explanation. And to read it, it will take no less than 15 minutes. But no one undertakes to do this, and for those who wish to try, I will say right away that it is very difficult to find it. Everyone who tried to do this concluded: either this is a myth, started up for no reason, or, for unknown reasons, no one 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 from the Russians they call him. Although if you take names that are practically not used anymore, then Appolinarius and Panteleimon will be one letter longer. Alexandra and Efrosinya are leaders in the number of letters among female Russian names.
