Ungungai Diglot Newbie Canada Joined 5826 days ago 12 posts - 12 votes Speaks: Sign Language, Greenlandic*
| Message 2 of 18 22 December 2008 at 1:15am | IP Logged |
angagixta- Aleut
Yuusiq-Siberian Yupik
Suuciq-Alutiiq Yup'ik
Yuuciq- Yup'ik
Inuusiq-Inupik
Inuggun/Inuuniq- Inupiaq
Inuuhiq- West Inuktitun
Inuuseq- Kalaallisut
iisiq-East Greenlandic
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Aquedita Triglot Senior Member Poland myspace.com/aqueda_v Joined 6020 days ago 154 posts - 164 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese Studies: Mandarin
| Message 3 of 18 22 December 2008 at 3:54am | IP Logged |
I like topics like that :)
In Polish it's życie.
In Japanese it's 命 (inochi) as opposed to death or 生活 (seikatsu) as in "everyday life".
In Mandarin it's 生命 (shēngmìng).
In Spanish it's la vida (I guess similar to French?)
In German it's das Leben.
In Russian it's жизнь.
I guess these are all the languages I know...
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FrancescoP Octoglot Senior Member Italy Joined 5956 days ago 169 posts - 258 votes Speaks: Italian*, French, English, German, Latin, Ancient Greek, Russian, Norwegian Studies: Georgian, Japanese, Croatian, Greek
| Message 4 of 18 22 December 2008 at 4:47am | IP Logged |
Not much left to add, as far as my notions reach...
Georgian: cxovreba (c like in Polish, x like German doch)
French: la vie (you know the song, don't you...)
Italian: la vita
Norwegian: liv(et)
Ancient Greek: "zoe" as opposed to death, "bios" more in the sense of existence (sorry no fonts on this pc)
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izan Bilingual Tetraglot Newbie Spain letmewritealittlebit Joined 5875 days ago 20 posts - 34 votes 1 sounds Speaks: Spanish*, Basque*, EnglishC1, FrenchC1 Studies: German
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Just one more: Bizia (Basque)
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Leopejo Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Italy Joined 6115 days ago 675 posts - 724 votes Speaks: Italian*, Finnish*, English Studies: French, Russian
| Message 6 of 18 22 December 2008 at 5:15am | IP Logged |
Elämä
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stelingo Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5838 days ago 722 posts - 1076 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Czech, Polish, Greek, Mandarin
| Message 8 of 18 22 December 2008 at 7:00am | IP Logged |
In Czech life = život.
This is confusing for Russian speakers as животь (zhivot') which is almost pronounced the same means stomach.
Other languages
het leven (Dutch)
a vida (Portuguese)
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