Google Translate Translates “Pergola” as “Pergola” in Almost Every Language
Google Translator translates "pergola" as "pergola" almost universally in every language.
To give somewhat of an idea of how truly fascinating this phenomenon is, consider this: "papa" and "mama" are studied by specialists of language for their close resemblance to each other and for remaining so much the same over time.
Mama, for example, is: mama, haha, māma, mamá, ma, mamã, maa, and mamī, in the top ten most spoken languages. In some circles of linguists, this is attributed in part to the early babbling of babies but is still considered amazing for the similarities. And yet the orthography of pergola is not only a carbon copy of each other but has also remained identical in almost every language!
It can be kind of fun to study or reminisce the evolution of words because language is alive, and with each new generation, they make it their own. So much so that a speaker of modern English would likely find it difficult to understand Old English as some words have completely changed in meaning or articulation.
In Old English, "a girl" once meant a young child of either sex. "Awful" meant it was awesome, worthy of awe, e.g. "the awful majesty of God." "Nice" was not a compliment; it once meant "foolish" or "silly."
The unaltered spelling of pergola is not the only fascinating fact.
With so many languages, words are inevitably prone to be altered in the pronunciation. The word "business" for example, once rhymed with "dizziness," having three syllables instead of two. The pronunciation of pergola from language to language is in most cases either identical or very similar.
Unlike new inventions such as electricity, light bulbs, telephones, the telegraph, rifles, locomotives, combustion or steam engines, the pergola has been around for centuries with plenty of time to morph to a vastly different sound or spelling in just one language. The idea of a single word being the same word and then maintaining its origins and integrity through a multitude of languages without changing is astonishing.
In almost every language pergola translates as pergola without variation in writing, spelling, hyphenation, emphasis or punctuation. A person could conclude that words like “papa” and “mama” cause people to hold tighter to words that carry a deeper meaning. By design, pergolas have always been happy places for family and communities to draw closer to each other.
Take a look at pergola translated in all these languages from Google Translate, and then check out still more words with interesting divergences, posted here at the bottom.:
| Language | Spelling | Translation |
|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans | Pergola | Pergola |
| Albanian | Pergola | Pergola |
| Amharic | Pergola | Pergola |
| Arabic | Pergola | Pergola |
| Armenian | Pergola | Pergola |
| Azerbaijani | Pergola | Pergola |
| Bengali | Pergola | Pergola |
| Basque | Pergola | Pergola |
| Bosnian | Pergola | Pergola |
| Catalan | Pergola | Pergola |
| Cebuano | Pergola | Pergola |
| Chichewa | Pergola | Pergola |
| Czech | Pergola | Pergola |
| Croatian | Pergola | Pergola |
| Danish | Pergola | Pergola |
| Dutch | Pergola | Pergola |
| English | Pergola | Pergola |
| Esperanto | Pergola | Pergola |
| Estonian | Pergola | Pergola |
| Filipino | Pergola | Pergola |
| Finnish | Pergola | Pergola |
| French | Pergola | Pergola |
| Frisian | Pergola | Pergola |
| Galician | Pérgola | Pergola |
| Georgian | Pergola | Pergola |
| German | Pergola | Pergola |
| Greek | Pergola | Pergola |
| Gujarati | Pergola | Pergola |
| Haitian Creole | Pergola | Pergola |
| Hausa | Pergola | Pergola |
| Hawaiian | Pergola | Pergola |
| Hmong | Pergola | Pergola |
| Hungarian | Pergola | Pergola |
| Icelandic | Pergola | Pergola |
| Igbo | Pergola | Pergola |
| Irish | Pergola | Pergola |
| Indonesian | Pergola | Pergola |
| Javanese | Pergola | Pergola |
| Kazakh | Pergola | Pergola |
| Khmer | Pergola | Pergola |
| Kyrgyz | Pergola | Pergola |
| Lao | Pergola | Pergola |
| Latvian | Pergola | Pergola |
| Luxembourgish | Pergola | Pergola |
| Malagasy | Pergola | Pergola |
| Malay | Pergola | Pergola |
| Maltese | Pergola | Pergola |
| Maori | Pergola | Pergola |
| Mongolian | Pergola | Pergola |
| Myanmar | Pergola | Pergola |
| Nepali | Pergola | Pergola |
| Norwegian | Pergola | Pergola |
| Pashto | Pergola | Pergola |
| Polish | Pergola | Pergola |
| Portuguese | Pérgola | Pergola |
| Punjabi | Pergola | Pergola |
| Romanian | Pergolă | Pergola |
| Samoan | Pergola | Pergola |
| Scots Gaelic | Pergola | Pergola |
| Sesotho | Pergola | Pergola |
| Shona | Pergola | Pergola |
| Sindhi | Pergola | Pergola |
| Sinhala | Pergola | Pergola |
| Slovenian | Pérgola | Pérgola |
| Somali | Pergola | Pergola |
| Spanish | Pergola | Pergola |
| Sundanese | Pergola | Pergola |
| Swahili | Pergola | Pergola |
| Swedish | Pergola | Pergola |
| Tajik | Pergola | Pergola |
| Turkish | Pergola | Pergola |
| Uzbek | Pergola | Pergola |
| Vietnamese | Pergola | Pergola |
| Welsh | Pergola | Pergola |
| Yoruba | Pergola | Pergola |
| Zulu | Pergola | Pergola |
Bulgarian, Macedonian and Russian are written in the Cyrillic alphabets but are still articulated as pergola:
| Language | Spelling | Translation |
|---|---|---|
| Bulgarian | пергола | pergola |
| Macedonian | пергола | pergola |
| Russian | пергола | pergola |
From here, the remaining languages taper to a relatively close resemblance in either spelling, emphasis, punctuation or pronunciation:
| Language | Spelling | Translation |
|---|---|---|
| Belarusian | Перголы | peirholy |
| Bengali | Peragola | pergola |
| Serbian | пергола | pergole |
| Ukrainian | пергола | perhola |
| Dhaka | পেরগোলা | Peragola |
| Hebrew | פרגולה | Pergola |
| Hindi | pairgol | Pergola |
| Japanese | Pāgora | Pergola |
| Kannada | ಪೆರ್ಗೋಳ | Pergola |
| Telugu | పెర్గోలా | Pergōlā |
| Thai | เรือนกล้วยไม้ | Pergola |
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