eleven consonants in a row

[threeplusfire]

odctvrtvrstvit
That's a Czech verb, meaning "to remove a quarter of something."
No, I'm not really sure I can pronounce that either.

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[kart.livejournal.com]

That is cool. The word seems more managable if you break it up-- od / ctvrt / vrstvit. I don't know any Czech, but it looks slightly Russian-ish enough to see how it could have something to do with taking away one quarter of something. Ctvrt is real close to четверть.

I wonder if 11 consonants in a row is the all time champion. It'd be cool if Czech were the winner among all languages for something weird like that. The next most consonants together would probably be Georgian.

The word Georgian word gvbrdgvnis means "he tears us apart". I wonder if livejournal will let me paste it in Georgian... გვბრდგვნის

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[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Oof. Eight consonants.

Yes, I had to look at it before it started to make sense.

I'm told it's the longest string of consonants in a word ever. Georgian and Serbo-Croat wouldn't surprise me.