Surfing is a universal language. Do you know how to write the name of your favorite sport in Mandarin? Let's learn how to jot down "surfing" in the 35 most spoken languages.
International English is a global language, but it is not alone in the world. To get things started, we should have in mind that there are approximately 955 million Mandarin native speakers, i.e., 14.4 percent of the world population.We've traced the origin of the word "surfing," and we know that, in Hawaiian, "he'e nalu" stands for "to surf waves." Now, it's time to travel the planet and ask how do you write it down, in multiple languages.
Interestingly, many languages have adopted the English word or, at least, part of the expression. The Portuguese, German, French, Italian, Polish and Swedish, for example, have decided to keep the core of the term.
Others - basically the majority of the languages which do not follow the Latin alphabet - have set their own graphic design for expressing the sport of surfing, in the written form. Let's see how surfing is typed in the keyboards of the world:
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Language Mandarin Spanish English Hindi Arabic Portuguese Bengali Russian Japanese Punjabi German Javanese Malay/Indonesian Telugu Vietnamese Korean French Marathi Tamil Urdu Persian Turkish Italian Thai Gujarati Polish Kannada Malayalam Ukrainian Nepali Hungarian Greek Czech Swedish Belarusian |
Native Speakers (Millions) 955 405 360 310 295 215 205 155 125 102 89 82 77 76 76 76 74 73 70 66 65 63 59 56 49 40 38 38 30 17 13 12 10 8.7 7.6 |
Translation 冲浪 surf surfing सर्फ़िंग ركوب الأمواج surf/surfe সার্ফিং серфинг サーフィン ਤਰੰਗ surfen selancar berselancar సర్ఫింగ్ lướt sóng 파도 타기 surf सर्फ உலாவல் سرفنگ گشت و گذار sörf surfing ท่อง સર્ફિંગ surfowanie/surfing ಸರ್ಫಿಂಗ್ സർഫിംഗ് серфінг सर्फिङ szörfözés σέρφινγκ surfování surfning/surfing сёрфінг |
