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As an agglutinative language, Turkish allows the construction of words by adding many suffixes to a word stem. The longest word in the Turkish language used in a text is ''"muvaffakiyetsizleştiricileştiriveremeyebileceklerimizdenmişsinizcesine"'' which has 70 letters. It is derived from the noun ''"muvaffakiyet"'' (success) and means ''As though you are from those whom we may not be able to easily make into a maker of unsuccessful ones''. It was used in a contrived story designed to use this word.〔(Yeni Mesaj, Turkish newspaper )〕〔(Papatyam )〕 Not considering suffixes, the longest Turkish dictionary words have 20 letters: These are "kuyruksallayangiller" (the biological genus Motacillidae), "ademimerkeziyetçilik" (decentralization) and "elektroensefalografi" (electroencephalography). In comparison, the word "muvaffakiyet" has 12 letters, so it is possible to use the same suffixes used for the longest word referred to above and make an even longer word from these ones. There is no principled grammatical reason for not being able to make a Turkish word indefinitely long, as there are suffixes that can act recursively on a word stem. In practice, however, such words would become unintelligible after a few cycles of recursion. ==Grammar== Turkish grammar is highly agglutinative, enabling the construction of words by stringing various morphemes. It is theoretically possible for some words to be inflected an infinite number of times, because certain suffixes generate words of the same type as the stem word, such that the new word can be modified again with the same suffix(es). An example for such a recursive pattern is〔Çöltekin Ç., '' A Freely Available Morphological Analyzer for Turkish ()'' In ''Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2010)'', Valletta, Malta, May 2010. 〕 ev-de-ki-nin-ki-ler-de-ki . . . house-LOC-REL-POS3s-REL-PLU-LOC-REL . . ... the one of the one in the one at the house. Thus, case and possessive suffixes interspersed with the -ki- suffix can be added indefinitely to a noun, although in practice this would not be observed more than a few times. The causative morpheme can also be used recursively to generate indefinitely long words that are grammatically valid. This morpheme shows quite some irregularity, taking one of six forms depending on the verb root. Otherwise it alternates between -DIr (D=d or t, I=ı,i,u or ü) and -t depending on the preceding letter.〔 piş-ir-di-ler = they cooked it piş-ir-t-ti-ler = they caused it to be cooked (they had it cooked) piş-ir-t-tir-di-ler = they caused it to be caused to be cooked (they had someone have it cooked) piş-ir-t-tir-t-ti-ler = they caused it to be caused to be caused to be cooked (they had someone have someone have it cooked) piş-ir-t-tir-t-tir-di-ler = they caused it to be caused to be caused to be caused to be cooked (they had someone have someone have someone have it cooked) Multiple usage of this suffix is rare, but there is no theoretical reason to put a limit to its use. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Longest word in Turkish」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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