Friday, May 04, 2007

How do you say...soccer?

Thanks to The Global Game, here is how to say "soccer" around the world:

ball-coise | French patois (Grenada)
bola sepak | Malay and Bahasa Indonesia
bolo | Sesotho (Lesotho)
bóng đá | Vietnamese
calcio | Italian
fodbold | Danish
le foot | French
football | English, Interlingua, Plattdüütsch
ฟุตบอล | Thai
fotbal | Czech, Romanian
fotball | Norwegian
fotboll | Swedish
fótbolti | Icelandic
fußball | German
축구 | Korean
фудбал (fudbal) | Serbian
fuotbal | Frisian (northern Netherlands, Germany)
futball | Hungarian
futbalo | Esperanto
futbol | Catalan, Turkish
fútbol | Spanish, Galician
futebol | Portuguese
Футбол | Bulgarian, Russian
jalgpall | Estonian
足球 | Chinese
jalkapallo | Finnish
כדורגל (kaduregel) | Hebrew
كرة القدم (kurat al qadam) | Arabic
mejenga | Spanish (Costa Rica, slang)
nogomet | Slovenian
pediludium | Latin
pêl-droed | Welsh
ফুটবল (phuṭabala) | Bengali
piłka nożna | Polish
ποδόσφαιρο (podosfairo) | Greek
サッカー | Japanese
soccer | English (U.S.A., Canada, Australia, South Africa, etc.)
le soccer | French (Québec)
sokker | Afrikaans
voetbal | Dutch

Read the whole article here.

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