Having been a bit of a linguist (I majored in Russian with a minor in French and a tiny bit of German), I was curious to see in how many different languages I could find “Siberian cat.”
I can’t confess to a completely exhaustive search, but here’s what I’ve found so far, plus some great submissions by other folks. Note that some of these are in non-latin alphabets, so your browser migh not recognize them if you don’t happen to have that font set installed.
| Arabic | القط السيبيري |
| Czech | Sibiřská kočka |
| Danish | Sibiriske kat |
| Dutch | Siberische Kat |
| English | Siberian Cat |
| Estonian | Siberi kass |
| Finnish | Siperiankissa |
| French | Chat de Sibérie (“Sibérien”) |
| Gaelic | Cat Sibéireach |
| German | Sibirische Katze |
| Hebrew | חתול סיבירי |
| Hungarian | Szibériai Macska |
| Italian | Gatto Siberiano |
| Japanese | サイベリアン |
| Latvian | Sibīrijas kaķi |
| Lithuanian | Sibiro katinas |
| Norwegian | Sibir Katt |
| Polish | Syberyjski Kot |
| Portugese | Gato siberiano |
| Russian | Сибирская кошка |
| Slovenian | Sibirski mucek |
| Spanish | Gato Siberiano |
| Swedish | Sibirisk Katt |
If you know how to say “Siberian cat” in a language that I don’t have listed, or if I’ve made a mistake in the list above, please send it to me and I’ll include it here!
And a big “Thank you” for:
- Doris for the Danish version
- Fran for the update to the French version
- Dar & Eyal for the Hebrew version
- Daisy for the Arabic version
- Merja for the Swedish version
- Ruta for the Lithuanian version
- Eamon for the Gaelic version
- Merja for the Estonian and Latvian versions
- Eva for fixing the Czech version
- Cristiana for the Portugese and Slovenian versions
- Corina for the Japanese version
- Marijke for correcting the Dutch version
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#1 by Doris Flaiz on February 15th, 2010 - 6:24 pm
In Danish it is ~ Sibiriske kat
#2 by Michael R. Hicks on February 15th, 2010 - 7:01 pm
Thanks, Doris!!