Sorry Doobieous, I had responded to BobT’s mention that “Asian” languages are all short-worded, which I agree with you isn’t true. But it seemed he was referring to “Asian” languages, not montagnard Austronesian dialects, Sanskrit-relates gone east rather than west, etc… hence my comment. And it’s a fair estimate, IMHO, that “borrowed” words with the various affixes & suffixes & infixes in most languages tend to be longer than the actual, “native” vocabulary. Whether or not they are “native” words is, I suppose, debatable. Remember, though, the preferred Tagalog root word would be “lakad”, and “pasyal” would better be called a Pilipino word these days…
So to show longer words in Tagalog, say, I’d pick pandudulay or kapanibulusan… or Vietnamese Giangnghiemvien (sorry, won’t bother with the accent codes); but to answer BobT I’d pick a “proper” Asian language, say Chinese:t’i wen piao, or Japanese: yoroshikuor shimaimashita…
Now back to regular programming…
), and they could pass as Russians or Hungarians, many of whom too have pronounced cheekbones. You’d never think there were Japanese or Korean.