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Hi, I'm not sure where to ask this. But it is related to ebooks, because they make it easier to count characters, words and pages.

I'm wondering what langauges are usually the longest. You can attempt a distraction by saying "it depends on circumstances, translation", or "German numerals can theoreticaly be infinite". But I mean in practice. Even better, I have an idea how to measure this ! But I need your help.

The idea is to compare the same book translated to different languages. The measuring stick should be character count. Not word count, because this can be misleading. I want the most verbose languages possible, where speaking usually takes the most time. Not page count, because it depends on other factors like margins, font size, and so on.

I was thinking about comparing The Bible and/or War and Peace in different langauges. But I can't find a place where a large number of languages is listed. Ebooks are digital, which makes counting characters vastly easier. I think I prefer War and Peace, because The Bible tends to be written in archaic language to make it sound more profound. Or rather, it's often left that way.

I think Russian may be one of longest, slavic languages tend to be quite long and Russian is noticeably longer than Polish. For instance, words with feminine gender often have 2 syllabes more.