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bemcertinho

If language and culture, here understood as "tribal culture", are really inseparably intertwined, then you're right, madhacker. The proposal of an International Auxiliary Language aims precisely bring such rupture: separe at least one functional code of understanding among humans, from the constraints of any "tribal culture". But you are on the majoritarian side, I agree. Most people, currently, refuses the idea of a constructed International Auxiliary Language, detached from any reference to a given tribal culture. My post just tried to "shake" the subject, once the opportunity was there. We cannot inject already grown up trees in the ground. Unknown, unforeseen winds, birds, insects, bring seeds. Time, rain, sun and soil may come to make them slowly grow. International Auxiliary Languages must wait for analogous processes to make their way along human hearts and minds.

Mnemotechnics

Ok, this thread seems inactive for like 10 months, but you can have the greek translation.

 

chess  -  Σκάκι (skaki)

chess board  -  Σκακιέρα (skakiera)

check  -  Τσεκ / Σαχ  (Check / Sah ..both used)

check mate  -  Ματ  (Mat)

pawn  -  Πιόνι  (Pioni)

king  -  Βασιλιάς / Ρήγας  (Vasilias / Rigas)

queen  -  Βασίλισσα / Ντάμα  (Vasilissa / Dama)

rook  -  Πύργος  (Pirgos)

bishop  -  Αξιωματικός  (Axiomatikos)

knight  -  Ίππος  (Ippos)

castle  -  Ροκέ  (Roke')

black  -  Μαύρα  (Mavra)  (It's actually "Blacks" - plural)

white  -  Λευκά  (Lefka)  (It's actually "Whites" - plural)

 

On a more funny mode, we use a strange terminology under friendly circumstances , such as...

Rook = Home  (Spiti)

Bishop = Fou / Crazy (trelos)

Knight = Donkey (Gaidouri) = Animal (zo-o)

Queen = Woman (gineka)

gaereagdag

I want:

Klingon

Daedric

Esperanto

Vampire language

Cockney slang

Bronx gangland lingua frnaca

Pidgin

Muppet speak

madhacker

This is my attempt at Cockney:

chess - fancy (fancy dress)

chess board - Henry (Henry Ford)

check - boat (boat deck)

check mate - toilet (toiletgate!)

pawn - sweet (sweetcorn)

king - key (keyring)

queen - smoke (smokescreen)

rook - phone (phonebook) 

knight - traffic (traffic-light)

black - wolf (wolf-pack)

white - stage (stage-fright)

Castle and bishop are difficult, unless you settle for half-rhymes. Any ideas?

madhacker

Hassle and fish-shop? (But what would that make the Cockney code?)

billwall

There are over 7,000 languages in the world.  The Bible has been translated into over 500 languages.  Chess, the world's most popular game, should have at least the same amount of translations for chess and all its pieces (king, queen, rook, bishop, knight, pawn).  Here is a list of over 600 languages which I am looking for chess terms.

So far, I have the word chess and its pieces translated into the following languages:

Abyssinian, Afghan Persian, Afrikaans, Albanian, Anharic, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Basque, Belarusian, Banlga (Bengali), Bornean, Brazilian Portuguese, Breton, Bulgarian, Buriat, Burmese, Cantonese, Catalan, Chinese, Chuvash, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Egyptian, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Farsi, Filipino, Finnish, Frech, Frisian, Friulian, Gaelic, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Kalmyk, Karachay-Balkar, Karakalpak, Korean, Kumyk, Kurdish, Latin, Latvian, Lettish, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Mandarin, Marathi, Middle Persian, Mongolian, Moorish, Northern Sotho, Norwegian, Nynorsk, Occitan, Old English, Pahlavi, Parsi, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Romansh, Russian, Sanskrit, Serbian, Serbo-Croatian, Siamese (Thai), Sicilian, Slovak, Slovene, Soyot, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tamil, Tatar, Telugu, Thai, Tibetan, Turkish, Turkmen, Tuvin, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh, Yiddish, Yoruba.

I am missing the word for chess and its pieces for the following languages:

Abaza, Abenaki, Abkhaz, Adai, Adangbe, Adangme, Adghe, Afar, Ahlo, Ainu, Ajie, Akan, Alemannic, Aleur, Algic, Algonquian, Alsatian, Alsean, Amdang, Anguar, Anglo-French, Apache, Aragonese, Aramaic, Arapaho, Arrernte, Ashkherewa, Ashuwa, Assamese, Assyrian, Asturian, Atakapta, Austronesian, Avar, Avestan, Aymara, Aynu, Azeri, Baga, Bahasu Melayu, Bai, Balinese, Balochi, Balti, Bambara, Bandjabi, Bantu, Bapounou, Bari, Basa-Gumna, Bassa, Batak, Bemba, Beothuk, Berber, Berta, Bezshagh, Bhojpuri, Bicol, Bishnupriya Manipuri, Bislama, Blackfoot, Bodo, Bojpoori, Bokmal, Bosnian, Brahui, Braille, Brazilero, Bubi, Buginese, Buhid, Burushaski, Caddoan, Cahuilla, Cakchiquel, Cape Dutch, Carib, Carolinian, Carrier, Castillian, Catyuga, Cayuse, Cebuano, Chamorro, Chechen, Cherokee, Chewa, Cheyenne, Chhattisgarhi, Chichewa, Chickasaw, Chilomwe, Chimakuan, Chimariko, Chinyanja, Chipewyan, Chisenas, Chitonga, Chitumbuka, Chiyao, Choctataw, Chukese, Cimbrian, Cirsassian, Cisena, Couhuilteco, Comanche, Comecrudan, Coosan, Coptic, Cornish, Corsican, Cotoname, Cree, Creole, Criuolo, Cupeno, Cushitic, Dagomba, Dakhini, Dakota, Dalecarlian, Dangme, Dargwa, Dari, Dhivehi, Dimasa, Dimli, Dinka, Dioula, Djerma, Dogri, Drehu, Dungan, Dzongkha, Echuwabo, Elomwe, Emakhuwa, Middle English, Erzya, Eskimo-Aleut, Evenki, Ewe, Eyak, Fang, Fijian, Fiji Hindi, Flemish, fon, Foochow, Fula, Fulani, Fur, Fushou, Ga, Gagauz, Galole, Gan, Ganda, Garifuna, Ge'ez, Gikuyu, Gilbertese, Godoberi, Gothic, Greenlandic, Guaragigna, Guarani, Gujarati, Gumuz, Gurung, Gwich'in, Haida, Hainanese, Hakka, Harari, Hassaniya Arabic, Huasa, Hawaiian, Herero, Hiligaynon, Himba, Hindko, Hindustani, Hiri Motu, Hmong, Hokkien, Hopi, Iban, Ibo, Ido, Igbo, Ik, Ilocano,Ilonggo, Ingush, Interlingua, Inuit, Inuktitut, Inupiat, IsiXhosa, isiZulu, Isthmus Nahuati, Jamaican Creole, Jerriais, Jola, Juba, Judaeo-Spanish, Jutish, Kabardian, Kabyle, Kadazan, Kaingang, Kalanga, Kannada, Kanuri, Kaonda, Kapringamarangi, Karamojong, Karbi, Karelian, Kashmiri, Kashubian, Kazakh, Kekchi, Kelantanese Malay, Kemak, Kendeje, Khakas, Khmer, Khoekhoe, Khoisan, Khowar, Kikongo, Kingwana, Kinyarwanda, Kiribati, Kirundi, Kiswahili, Kosrean, Krio, Kulianl Kunama, Kutchi, Kwa, Kwadi, Kyrgyz, Ladakhi, Ladin, Lao, Lapp, Laz, Leonese, Lepcha, Limbu, Limburgish, Lingala, Lisu, Livonian, Ljekavian, Low German, Lozi, Luba-Kasai, Luganda, Luiseno, Lunda, Luo, Luri, Luvale, Maasai, Magahi, Magar, Maithili, Makassarese, Malagasy, Malayalam, Malayo, Maldivian Dhivehi, Malinke, Marn, Mambae, Manchu, Mandinka, Manipuri, Manx, Maori, Marshallese, Masalit, Mayan, Meeteilon, Meitei, Melanesian Pidgin, Mende, Miami-Illinois, Michoacan Nahuati, Min, Min Bei, Min Dong, Min Nan, Min Zhong, Mina, Minbei, Minnan, Mirandese, Mizo, Moldavian, Mon, Monegasque, Mon-Khmer, Monokutuba, Montenegrin, Moroccan Arabic, Moshi, Muscogee Creek, Musgu,  Muskum, Myanmar, Myene, Nahua, Nahuatl, Namam Nauruan, Najajo, Ndebele, Ndyuka, Nepal Bhasa, Nepali, Ngbee, Noger-Congo, Nilo-Hamitic, Nilotic, Nubian, Nuer, Nukuoro, Nuosu, Nyagnia, Nzebi, Occidental, Ojibwe, Okinawan, Omotik, Oriya, Orominga, Oshvambo, Pahari, Palauan, Palula, Pampango, Pangasinense, Pashtu, Pattani Malay, Patois, Phoneicina, Pidgin English, Piman, Pipil, Pitjantjatjara, Plautdiestsch, Pohnpeian, Polynesian, Portunol, Provencal, Prussian, Pulaar, Punjabi, Putonghua, Pu-Xian Min, Qazaq, Quechua, Quiche, Raga, Rajasthani, Roma, Rusyan, Ruthenian, Saho, Sami, Samoan, Sangho, Santali, Sara, Sardinian, Saurashta, Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Sekgalagadi, Sepedi, Seselwa Creole, Sesotho, Setswana, shan, Shanghaiese, Sherpa, Shikomoro, shilluk, Shona, Sikkimese, Sindebele, Sindhi, Sinhala, Siraiki, siSwati, Slavonic, Somali, Soninke, Sonsoralese, Sotho, Stellingwarfs, Sudanese, Surinamese, susu, Swazi, Swiss German, Sylheti, Ta Bedawie, Tai, Tai Dam, Tai Khun, Tai Lu, Tai Nua, Taiwanese, Tajik, Tamang, Tangut, Tapanda, Temne, Teochew, Tepes, Teribe, Tetum, Tharu, Tifnagh, Tigre, Tigrigna, Tiwa, Tobi, Tok Pisin, Tonga, Tongan, Tongva, Tosk, Tsez, Tshiluba, Tsonga, Tswana, Tuareg, Tulu, Turkic, Tuvaluan, Uduk, Ulithian, Uyghur, Valencian, Venda, Venetian, Volapuk, Voro, Walloon, Waray, Waripiri, West Circassian, West Frisian, White Russian, Wikang Filipino, Woleaian, Wolof, wu, Zaracuu, Xhosa, Xiang, Xibe, Xichangana, Xinca, Xitsonga, Yapase, Yazdi, Yesidi, Yue, Zande, Zhuarng, Zulu.

Any help with the languages that I dont have chess and its pieces translated would be much appreciated.  Even if they don't have chess in their vocabulary, translate king, queen, rook, bishop, knight and pawn if possible.

 

rasimall

Azerbaijani Language

Chess - Şahmat 

Chess King - Şah

Rook - Top

Queen - Vəzir

Pawn - Piyada

Knight  - At (Horse)

Bishop - Fil (Elephant)

Black - Qara

White - Ağ 

fabelhaft

In Nauruan: rook - mahunga palea koane tsananangariva tsananangakava bahando ata apalueva eta patanda mango paratenga bilimo parakeva, literally "big house of traveler from over the seas made of stone which moves in straight lines and is formed like the beak of the panakea bird". Since there are no abbreviations in Nauruan the chess books get rather long, Fischer's 60 memorable games is 42 000 pages over in all 100 volumes.

ChessPicnic

In Turkish:

chess - satranç

chess board - satranç tahtası

check - şah

check mate - şah mat

pawn - piyon/piyade/er (meaning pawn/ footsoldier / soldier)

king - şah ( ~king)

queen - vezir (~minister)

rook - kale (~castle)

bishop - fil (~elephant)

knight - at (~horse)

castle - rok

black - siyah

white - beyaz

stalemate - pat

ihaveap1

In Persian پارسی

 

chess - shatranj شترنج

chess board - takhte shatranj  تخته ی شترنج

check - kish  کیش

check mate - mat  مات

pawn - piyade  پیاده (meaning footsoldier)

king - shah شاه

queen - vazir وزیر (~minister)

rook - rokh رخ(~castle)

bishop - fil فیل(~elephant)

knight - asb اسب(~horse)

castle - ghal-eh  قلعه

black - siyah سیاه

white - sefid سفید

stalemate - pat پات

bradtama

ENGLISH chess- chess chess board-chess board king-king queen-queen rook-rook bishop-bishop knight-knight castle-castle

SixtenTran
Swedish
Schack
Schackbräde
Schack
Schackmatt
Bonde
Kung
Dam
Torn
Löpare
Springare
Rockad
Svart
Vit
Mokomefe

Menguésian

chess: açecré

chess board: taguelha d' açecré

check: açecré

check mate: açecré gue mat

pawn: pajó

king: rieç

queen: duonhe

rook: toreç

bishop: naguenha

knight: cagualhe

castle: huetar eü caguelhe gu' eü rieç

black: nièguero

white: bironco

stalemate: got d' aguilté moguar

 

Volapük

chess: cög

chess board: cögöm

check: cög

check mate: finik cög

pawn: feilan

king: reg

queen: jireg

rook: tüm

bishop: bijop

knight: kavidan

castle: tümön

black: blägik

white: vietik

kulak64

NORWEGIAN

chess = sjakk

chess board = sjakkbrett

check = sjakk

check mate = sjakk matt

pawn = bonde

king = konge

queen = dronning

rook = tårn

bishop = løper

knight = springer

castle = rokere

castling = rokade (kingside castling = kort rokade, queenside castling = lang rokade)

black = sort

white = hvit

stalemate = patt

draw = remis

Conte_di_Luna

Thai:

chess = makrúgh, chaturangh 

chess board = kradán makrúgh

check = rúgh

check mate = rúghkaht

pawn = bīhy

king = kúnh, raja

queen = mèdh, rajinee

rook = reūh

bishop = kohn

knight = máah

castle = keph

black = dámh

white = káwh

braoult

FRENCH:

chess - échecs

chess board - échiquier

check - échec

check mate - échec et mat

pawn - pion

king - roi

queen - dame/reine

rook - tour

bishop - fou

knight - cavalier

castle - roc

black - noir

white - blanc

stalemate - échec et pat

For French, there are a few mistakes:

check mate - échec et mat should be "mat / échec et mat" (mat is used the most)

castle - roc should be: "roque (noun) / roquer (verb)" (roc is a stone)

stalemate - échec et pat should be "pat" (there is no check by definition)

sumxr_txme

oh shoot this is for native speakers srry

piedraven

What is 'to blunder' in everyone else's native language? grin.png

sumxr_txme
piedraven wrote:

What is 'to blunder' in everyone else's native language?

not my native language, but when it comes to Western chess terms, Japanese usually has a lot of loanwords. Therefore, it might be ブランダーする (burandaa suru/to blunder, loanword from English) or 失敗する (shippai suru/ to make a mistake).

Japanese probably has at least 4 different words for this case xD

sumxr_txme
long_quach wrote:
sumxr wrote:

oh shoot this is for native speakers srry

Correct. You are not making any sense to us gaijins 外人 [outside + person] foreigners [outsiders].

See what I did there? I use the Kanji, the Han Writing.

I don't know anything about Japanese. But I know Vietnamese and Chinese.

白 (shiro/ shee-roe) - white

That's good. Use the Kanji, unless it is a transliteration. If it is a transliteration, tell us what it is a transliteration of.

The example there.

白 = white.

白 = bạch (Vietnamese. Vietnamese is a variation of Chinese).

白雪 = Bạch Tuyết. Snow White.

Japanese is a bi-lingual language. Hmm. A better word would be a Chimera language. It uses Kanji for writing and Japanese for sound.

From my Chinese, I can do a better job than you; and I don't know anything about Japanese.

The Japanese 将 is a variation of 將.

Shogi = 將棋. The game of the general. The game of the Shogun 将軍.

將 is the "General" on the black side.

Pardon me if I you already knew this, but I myself am also 外人. I only started studying Japanese a few months ago. That's why I apologized on my second post in this thread. It's because I realized it was for native speakers (which I'm not.)