Monday, September 30, 2013

Comparative Autumn

With a little bit of help from Google Translate, I put together the following chart that shows all the different ways to say "autumn" in Indo-European languages. If it wasn't in Google Translate, I didn't include it. If it wasn't a living language, I didn't include it (Sorry, Latin!) I provided the transliteration for the Farsi, and I'm not one-hundred percent certain it's accurate. Also, I'm pretty sure there's something wrong with the Marathi translation since it appears to be a complete sentence. Table 1 is the languages spoken in European. Table 2 is the Indo-Iranian branch. I think it's fairly fun to compare how similar some of them are.

Table 1. "Autumn" in different Indo-European languages (not
including Indo-Iranian) organized by language family.


Table 2. "Autumn" in Indo-Iranian languages.