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I have a conlang (Tune) I am working on, and am in the process on how I want to handle "compound words". I am inspired by how English uses Greek/Latin/etc. to come up with compound terms (in biology, chemistry, medicine, etc.) and would like to do the same. However, because of the current word structure in Tune, most words are on average 2-4 syllables. Then combining them you would get to really long words, which, as one mentioned, is like scriptio continua and seems hard to read, like saloyowizitxihawinanoyotxa. That is really more like saloyo zitxiha nanoyotxa, or even saloyo zitxiha nano yotxa, since nano means "not".
Do any natural languages have a sort of dual or more-than-one-level-of-nesting approach to compound word formation like this? I am also going to be using a conscript Tone, which will make using both the hyphen and colon feel more "natural" and "baked-in" I guess. Or if none do, what are your initial thoughts/impressions of such a dual disambiguating system. Any suggestions? Be gentle please.