The German language is known for its complex words, which sometimes include dozens of letters.
But what will it be like to find out that in all the linguistic diversity, in terms of complexity of pronunciation and translation, it is far from the most difficult.
The most difficult word in terms of pronunciation and translation is the word from the Yaghan language.
This language is spoken by the Indian people living in Chile.
They are called Yagans, Yamars or Tecuenches, and sometimes even Fuegins.
It is known that in the first half of the 19th century the tribe numbered 3 thousand people.
And today the number has decreased to 1690 people.
Of this number, at least 60 people spoke their native language until the first half of the 20th century.
According to the Guinness Book of Records, this word "mamihlapinatapai" or "mamihlapinatapei" is one of the spelling variations.
In addition to the difficulty of pronunciation, and spelling too, this word conceals a lot if you try to translate it as accurately as possible.
In Russian it turns out to be: “a look between two people that expresses the desire of each for the other to initiate something that both want, but neither wants to be the first.”
Today, the remaining members of the tribe have switched to Spanish.
Linguists tend to believe that the language of the Yaghan people is extinct.
