Michael R. Hicks » Siberian Cats http://www.kreelanwarrior.com Tales and Musings Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:56:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 How Do You Say Siberian Cat? http://www.kreelanwarrior.com/2010/02/siberian-cat-languages/ http://www.kreelanwarrior.com/2010/02/siberian-cat-languages/#comments Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:00:25 +0000 Michael R. Hicks http://www.kreelanwarrior.com/?p=1017 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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