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Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Toiletological Linguistics
Toiletological Linguistics
What's the first thing to learn in the local language when you go somewhere? "Where's the toilet?" From the "Word of the Day" mailing list at www.travlang.com:
Afrikaans: Waar is die badkamer? Waar is die toilet?
Albanian: Ku ndodhet banjoja (nevojtorja)?
Amharic: Shent Be'tu yet new? (informal) Metatebia Be'tu yet new? (formal)
Arabic: Ain Alhamaam?
Armenian: Our eh paghnikeh?
Asturian: U"l ban~u?
Azerbaijani: - Ayaq yolu haradadi^r? Vanna otagvi^ haradadi^r?
Basque: Non dago komuna?
Bengali: Gosolkhana kothay, dyakhaben ki?
Bosnian: Gdje je toalet?
Breton: Pelec'h eman~ ar priveziou`?
Bulgarian: Kade e toaletnata?
Cantonese: bin do hai sai sau gaan?
Catalan: On e's la cambra de bany?
Chipewyan: Eydlokk-ey tsanko-ehn ah?
Cornish: Ple'ma an stevell omwolghi?
Creole: Ki laplas twale`t-la?
Croatian: Gdje je zahod?
Czech: Kde je za'chod?
Dagaare: Yeng la ka a konsodie be?
Danish: Hvor er toilettet?
Dutch: Waar is het toilet?
English: Where is the bathroom? Where is the toilet?
Esperanto: Kie estas la necesejo?
Estonian: Kus on va"ljaka"ik?
Eurish: Ube camu lava?
Farsi: Mos'ta'rah Ko'jast
Finnish: Missa" on WC?
French: Ou` sont les toilettes?
Frisian: We^r kin ik it hu'ske fine?
Galician: Onde é o quarto de banho? Onde é o retrete?
Georgian: t'ualet'i sad aris?
German: Wo ist die Toilette?
Greek: Pu' i'ne i tuale'ta?
Gujarati: baathroom kyaaN chhe?
Hawaiian: aia i hea ka lua?
Hebrew: eifo ha'sherutim?
Hindi: aapkaa snanghar (sauchalya) kahan hai?
Holooe: Pia"n-so'. ti" to'-u"i?
Hungarian: Hol a mosdo'
Icelandic: Hvar er snyrtingin
Ido: Ube esas la neceseyo?
Indonesian: Kamar kecil di mana?
Interlingua: Ubi es le w.c. (lavatorio)?
Irish: Ca' bfhuil seomra na mban (f) / bfhear (m)?
Italian: Dove e' il bagno?
Japanese: Toire wa doko desu ka?
Korean: Hwa-jang-sil-i O-die Isum-ni-ka?
Latin: Ubi sunt loca secreta? Ubi est conclave necessarium?
Latvian: Kur atrodas vannas istaba?
Lithuanian: Kur yra tualetas?
Luganda: Obuyu/ buyonjo buli ludda wa?
Malaysian: Di manakah terletaknya tandas? Tandas di mana?
Mandarin: xiv shouv jian- zai- na li?
Marshallese: Ewi em jirikrik in?
Mazahua: habbcaba'n~o?
Norwegian: Hvor er toalettet?
Occitan: Ont son los comuns?
Polish: Gdzie jest toaleta?
Portuguese: Onde e' o quarto de banho? Onde e' o casa de banho?
Brazilian Portuguese: Onde e' o banheiro? Onde e' o quarto de banho?
Quechua: maipi kaskai tuyuna?
Romanian: Unde este toaleta?
Russian: Gde zdes tualet?
Serbian: Gde je toalet?
Sesotho: Batekamore e kae?
Sinhala: [Bathroom / Toilet] Eka Kohedha.?
Slovak: Kde je WC?
Slovenian: Kje je kopalnica? Kje je stranisxcxe?
Spanish: Do'nde esta' el ban~o?
Swahili: Choo kiko wapi?
Swedish: Var a"r toaletten
Tagalog: Nasaan ang kasilyas?
Thai: hong-nam-you-tee-nai?
Tswana: Ntlwana ya boitiketso e kae?
Turkish: tuvalet nerede?
Ukrainian: de tut tualyet? (laznychka, uborna)
Vietnamese: , Nha` ve^. sinh o*? dda^u ?
Welsh: Ble mae'r toiled?
Wolof: fan la wonak bi neka/ana wonak bi
Xhosa: Iphi indlu yangasese (toilet)
Yiddish: vu iz der bodtsimer?
Zulu: likuphi itholethe?
http://www.cromwell-intl.com/toilet/
What's the first thing to learn in the local language when you go somewhere? "Where's the toilet?" From the "Word of the Day" mailing list at www.travlang.com:
Afrikaans: Waar is die badkamer? Waar is die toilet?
Albanian: Ku ndodhet banjoja (nevojtorja)?
Amharic: Shent Be'tu yet new? (informal) Metatebia Be'tu yet new? (formal)
Arabic: Ain Alhamaam?
Armenian: Our eh paghnikeh?
Asturian: U"l ban~u?
Azerbaijani: - Ayaq yolu haradadi^r? Vanna otagvi^ haradadi^r?
Basque: Non dago komuna?
Bengali: Gosolkhana kothay, dyakhaben ki?
Bosnian: Gdje je toalet?
Breton: Pelec'h eman~ ar priveziou`?
Bulgarian: Kade e toaletnata?
Cantonese: bin do hai sai sau gaan?
Catalan: On e's la cambra de bany?
Chipewyan: Eydlokk-ey tsanko-ehn ah?
Cornish: Ple'ma an stevell omwolghi?
Creole: Ki laplas twale`t-la?
Croatian: Gdje je zahod?
Czech: Kde je za'chod?
Dagaare: Yeng la ka a konsodie be?
Danish: Hvor er toilettet?
Dutch: Waar is het toilet?
English: Where is the bathroom? Where is the toilet?
Esperanto: Kie estas la necesejo?
Estonian: Kus on va"ljaka"ik?
Eurish: Ube camu lava?
Farsi: Mos'ta'rah Ko'jast
Finnish: Missa" on WC?
French: Ou` sont les toilettes?
Frisian: We^r kin ik it hu'ske fine?
Galician: Onde é o quarto de banho? Onde é o retrete?
Georgian: t'ualet'i sad aris?
German: Wo ist die Toilette?
Greek: Pu' i'ne i tuale'ta?
Gujarati: baathroom kyaaN chhe?
Hawaiian: aia i hea ka lua?
Hebrew: eifo ha'sherutim?
Hindi: aapkaa snanghar (sauchalya) kahan hai?
Holooe: Pia"n-so'. ti" to'-u"i?
Hungarian: Hol a mosdo'
Icelandic: Hvar er snyrtingin
Ido: Ube esas la neceseyo?
Indonesian: Kamar kecil di mana?
Interlingua: Ubi es le w.c. (lavatorio)?
Irish: Ca' bfhuil seomra na mban (f) / bfhear (m)?
Italian: Dove e' il bagno?
Japanese: Toire wa doko desu ka?
Korean: Hwa-jang-sil-i O-die Isum-ni-ka?
Latin: Ubi sunt loca secreta? Ubi est conclave necessarium?
Latvian: Kur atrodas vannas istaba?
Lithuanian: Kur yra tualetas?
Luganda: Obuyu/ buyonjo buli ludda wa?
Malaysian: Di manakah terletaknya tandas? Tandas di mana?
Mandarin: xiv shouv jian- zai- na li?
Marshallese: Ewi em jirikrik in?
Mazahua: habbcaba'n~o?
Norwegian: Hvor er toalettet?
Occitan: Ont son los comuns?
Polish: Gdzie jest toaleta?
Portuguese: Onde e' o quarto de banho? Onde e' o casa de banho?
Brazilian Portuguese: Onde e' o banheiro? Onde e' o quarto de banho?
Quechua: maipi kaskai tuyuna?
Romanian: Unde este toaleta?
Russian: Gde zdes tualet?
Serbian: Gde je toalet?
Sesotho: Batekamore e kae?
Sinhala: [Bathroom / Toilet] Eka Kohedha.?
Slovak: Kde je WC?
Slovenian: Kje je kopalnica? Kje je stranisxcxe?
Spanish: Do'nde esta' el ban~o?
Swahili: Choo kiko wapi?
Swedish: Var a"r toaletten
Tagalog: Nasaan ang kasilyas?
Thai: hong-nam-you-tee-nai?
Tswana: Ntlwana ya boitiketso e kae?
Turkish: tuvalet nerede?
Ukrainian: de tut tualyet? (laznychka, uborna)
Vietnamese: , Nha` ve^. sinh o*? dda^u ?
Welsh: Ble mae'r toiled?
Wolof: fan la wonak bi neka/ana wonak bi
Xhosa: Iphi indlu yangasese (toilet)
Yiddish: vu iz der bodtsimer?
Zulu: likuphi itholethe?
http://www.cromwell-intl.com/toilet/
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