is the longest place name in English-speaking countries and second longest in the world, according to Wises New Zealand Guide and The New Zealand Herald. Polish Very long Polish words can be created as adjectives from numerals and nouns. For example, , 54 letters, is the genitive singular form of an adjective meaning roughly "of nine-hundred and ninety-nine nationalities". Similar words are rather artificial compounds, constructed within allowed grammar rules, but are seldom used in spoken language, although they are not nonsense words. It is possible to make even longer words in this way, for example: (176 letters, meaning "of 999,999,999,999 years old"). One of the longest common words is 31-letter – the dative singular form of "ninety-and-some years old one". Another known long word is (32 letters), "a daughter of a man who lives in Constantinople" and (23 letters), "a 50 groszy coin". Romanian The longest Romanian word is , with 44 letters, but the longest one admitted by the ("Explanatory Dictionary of the Romanian Language", DEX) is , with 25 letters. Russian Most likely one of the longest Russian words is a chemical term, (), which contains 55 letters. It was used in Russian patent RU2285004C2 (granted and published in 2006). This word is an adjective that can describe e.g. a chemical formula. As a noun, it is without the last 4 letters. Another one is (), which contains 35 letters. It is an adjective in the bureaucratic language of the 19th century "meaning a very polite form of addressing clerks, something like Your Excellency, Your Highness, Your Majesty all together" (Guinness World Records 2003). Its dative singular form, (, with 36 letters) can be an example of excessively official vocabulary of the 19th century. Numeral compounds can be long as well, such as (), which is an adjective containing 46 letters, meaning "1889-micrometers long". Sanskrit Sanskrit allows word compounding of arbitrary length. Nouns and verbs can be expressed in a sentence. The longest sentence ever used in Sanskrit literature is (in Devanagari): In IAST transliteration: from the Varadāmbikā Pariṇaya Campū by Tirumalāmbā, composed of 195 Sanskrit letters (428 letters in the roman transliteration, dashes excluded), thus making it the longest word ever to appear in worldwide literature. Each hyphen separates every individual word this word is composed of. The approximate meaning of this word is: "In it, the distress, caused by thirst, to travellers, was alleviated by