1 Aug 2014

"Typewriter" in 44 languages other than English


Sent from: Soemtron KsT (German), Torpedo 18a (Dutch), Hermes Rocket (Russian),
Underwood Standard Portable (Croatian), and Everest Mod 90 (Brazilian Portuguese).

These are all the languages in google translate that I have a typewriter that can type, or else I can very closely approximate. I actually didn't mean to leave English out, but I forgot it. XD Here is the text again, fresh from google translate (showing what the languages are) in case if I made any errors in the typing.

"teeb" in Somali seems to just mean "type", so maybe that's not quite correct.

tikmasjien - afrikaans
makinë shkrimi - albanian
makina - azerbaijani
idazmakina - basque
пишеща машина - bulgarian
màquina d'escriure - catalan
pisaća mašina - croatian
psací stroj - czech
skrivemaskine - danish
schrijfmachine - dutch
kirjutusmasin - estonian
makinilya - filipino
kirjoituskone - finnish
machine à écrire - french
Schreibmaschine - german
bugun tafireta - hausa
írógép - hungarian
ritvél - icelandic
nkumigwe - igbo
mesin tik - indonesian
clóscríobhán - irish
macchina da scrivere - italian
rakstāmmašīna - latvian
rašomoji mašinėlė - lithuanian
машина за пишување - macedonian
mesin taip - malay
patotuhi - maori
бичгийн машин - mongolian
skrivemaskin - norwegian
maszyna do pisania - polish
máquina de escrever - portuguese
mașină de scris - romanian
пишущая машинка - russian
písací stroj - slovak
pisalni stroj - slovenian
teeb - somali
máquina de escribir - spanish
tapureta - swahili
skrivmaskin - swedish
daktilo - turkish
друкарська машинка - ukranian
teipiadur - welsh
ẹrọ itẹwe - yoruba
umshini wokubhala - zulu

2 comments:

  1. "daktilo" means typewriter in "typewriter" language?

    Just teasing, I'm impressed.

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    1. Hah. Fixed it now, it was Turkish, but I bet you already knew that or looked it up.

      I'm impressed how well scribere has influenced so very many languages; while it's not in "typewriter", we still have the word inscribe/scribe.

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