Interational terms for Deaf

[gnarlydorkette]

found at http://deafness.about.com/library/bldeaf.htm that gives a translation for each country for "deaf"....
(my apolozies if some of characters are screwed up... the webpage's master doesn't know how to do the special characters, apparently.)



Afrikaans -- doof
Albanian -- shurdër
Arabic -- أصم؛ متصام؛ أطرش
Basque -- gorrak
Belarusian -- h|uchi
Bengali -- ThawshA
Bulgarian -- ГЛУХ; НЕОТЗИВЧИВ; БЕЗ ЯДКА
Catalan -- sord -a
Cebuano -- bungol
Chinese -- Link to Translation
Croatian -- gluv
Czech -- HLUCHÝ
Danish -- døv
Dutch -- doof
English -- deaf
Esperanto -- surdo/a
Estonian -- kurt
Farsi -- كر؛ فاقد قوه شنوايى؛ پوك
Finnish -- kuuro
French -- sourd
Frisian -- dôf
German -- taub
Greek -- ΚΩΦΌΣ; ΚΟΥΦΌΣ
Hungarian -- süket
Ilongo -- bungol
Indonesian -- Tuli
Italian -- sordo
Japanese -- roua
Latvian -- KURLS; NEDZIRDĪGS
Norwegian -- døv
Persian -- kar
Polish -- GŁUCHY; NIECZUŁY; PUSTY
Portuguese -- surdo
Romanian -- surd
Russian -- [image shown]
Sanskrit -- akarNa
Serbo-Croatian -- GLUV
Slovak -- HLUCHÝ; NEPOČUJÚCI
Slovenian -- gluh
Spanish -- sordo
Swahili -- kiziwi
Swedish -- döv
Tagalog -- bingi
Turkish -- saDir
Urdu -- behra
Vietnamese -- diec
Yiddish -- TOIB


cool eh?

 

[BabyPhat21]

i know a couple of them, but its cool to know more

 

[GoldenLeaf74]

wow intersting, it is weird to speak for those word

 

[javapride]

That's VERY intresting seeing those words in different langaugues thanks gnarly for sharing it with us!

 

[tekkmortal]

The Vietnamese word for deaf almost spelled "died"

 

[GalaxyAngel]

Awesome... Different langagues cultures writting and spoken too.

 

[kuifje75]

Ehhhh!

The political correct word for Deaf in German is "GEHÖRLOS."
PROOFS:
http://www.gehoerlos.at/
http://www.gehoerlos.de/
http://www.gl-dd.de/

And in Czech, it is "NESLYSICI"
PROOFS:
http://www.neslysici.cz/
http://www.ticho.cz/

My two cents worth...

 

[HoneyShot]

Another one to add:

Turi -- Maori word for deaf. (Maori are the indiginous people of New Zealand, where I live.)

 

[Munchie]

:jaw: Wow!!! new words today for me.. very interesting!! thanks!! im taking note here..