Help me find more peace?

[magid]

I'm painting a T-shirt with as much peace as I can find. That is, the word peace in as many different languages as possible (in whatever alphabet, not transliterated into English).

So far, I have these languages:
Afrikaans
Arabic
Armenian
Amharit
Azerbajani
Bengali
Brailled English
Burmese
Cambodian
Chinese
Czech
Danish
Dutch
Esperanto
Estonian
Finnish
French
German
Greek
Gujarati
Hausa
Hebrew
Hindi
Hungarian
Icelandic
Indonesian
Italian
Kazak
Klingon
Korean
Lao
Latin
Latvian
Lithuanian
Malay
Malayam
Maltese
Maori
Nahuatle
Norwegian
Nyakyusa
Oriya
Persian
Pilipino
Polish
Portuguese
Pulaar
Punjabi
Rikchik
Russian
Samoan
Sinhalese
Slovak
Slovenian
Somali
Sorbian (Wendish)
Spanish
Swahili
Swedish
Tagalog
Tamil
Telugu
Thai
Turkish
Urdu
Vietnamese
Xhosa
Yiddish
Yoeme (Yacqui)
Yoruba
Know any others? I'd love to fill in some of the gaps.

Comments

[ruthling.livejournal.com]

wow! neat!

do you have American Sign Language. there should be iconography of that on the web somewhere.

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

ASL can be written in "SignWriting" as seen at signwriting.org - "Peace" can be seen at http://www.signwriting.org/cards/peace/index.html .

[gilana]

Welsh! If I'm figuring my parts of speech right on the online dictionaries, I think it's "hedd".

[magid.livejournal.com]

I have The Joy of Signing (which has earned me some odd looks because people don't always read carefully after the S... :-), which has peace in it, but it looked too complicated to copy with the hand motions.

I looked at the link Rikchik gave, and I don't really understand how it relates to ASL. Might be possible to copy.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Yay! I was hoping someone would know some of the Great Britain regional languages!

Pig Latin

[osewalrus.livejournal.com]

Eace-pay

Re: Pig Latin

[magid.livejournal.com]

*giggle*

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

This link may be more clear: http://www.omniglot.com/writing/signwriting.htm
Signwriting is a way to write the motions of signs in a standardized way.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Cool! And informative. Makes much more sense now, thank you.

[fj.livejournal.com]

Klingon?

Why not Elfin as well then?

[cnoocy]

My copy of A Concise Dictionary of Minnesota Ojibwe has bangan "it is peaceful" or bengang "something peaceful" but nothing for the concept itself.

[magid.livejournal.com]

I found a Klingon dictionary in the BPL. Actually, more than one. No Elvish ones, however.

OK, I admit, I haven't painted that one yet. But someone has pointed out the utter absurdity of peace for a people portrayed as utterly warlike.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Interesting. Sounds like Ojibwe peace must be in a context. I think the first one is closer to the concept I intend.


There's a concise dictionary of Minnesota Ojibwe?! Wow.

[fj.livejournal.com]

Stupid hippies -- ever T-shirt needs a curse-word!

[rethought.livejournal.com]

Irish Gaelic - síocháin

Scottish Gaelic - sídh

Have you seen this (http://www.enviroscan.com/html/world_peace.html)? :)

[rethought.livejournal.com]

Oh, on that list they have another word for peace in Scottish Gaelic. I'm not sure what's going on there, but I'm no expert of Gaelic (not yet anyway), so you'd have to flip a coin, I think.

I'm relatively certain that sídh is correct.

Also, the Scots word, 'pace'? No one uses that. They do say peace with a Scots accent, but it doesn't sound like pace.
There are legit Scots words, but I think peace isn't one of them. :)

[amalthya.livejournal.com]

Wow, you already have swahili. Oh well!

[scholargipsy.livejournal.com]

Kyuui in Japanese. :)

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

Not Heiwa?

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

According to our dictionary, it's maluhia in Hawaiʻian ("Peace, quiet, security, tranquillity, serenity; safety; solemn awe and stillness that reigned during some of the ancient taboo ceremonies; peaceful, restful"). Also, have you looked at the transwiki links at the bottom of the Wikipedia page for Peace? (Click edit, then scroll to the bottom of the edit box.)

[magid.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

Ooh, I hadn't! My Google-fu must be weak.

And I recognize a bunch of them :-). Though I disagree with their listing for Yiddish; based on the Yiddish dictionaries I checked, it would look like the Hebrew (different vowels, though), not the Germanic fridn.

[magid.livejournal.com]

*grin*

I went to the Boston Public Library to ransack their dictionaries before turning to the extreme wisdom of my friendslist :-)

[magid.livejournal.com]

I have some glyph (I want to say it's Kanji, but really, I don't know) for Japanese. (I must have been typing too fast, to have left it off the list...) Now I know how to pronounce it. Unless there are multiple words that are possible?

[magid.livejournal.com]

Yay for the Hawai'ian! (All they had at the BPL was a Hawai'ian-English dictionary, not the other direction.)

I hadn't know about the transwiki links. Thanks for the pointer!

[magid.livejournal.com]

There are legit Scots words, but I think peace isn't one of them. :)
*giggle*

I've found more than one word (different dictionaries) for peace in a couple of languages. I haven't decided whether just to use them all or flip a coin.

('pace' is already on, since it's one of the other Romance languages.)

[magid.livejournal.com]

Klingon hippies wearing those insulting curse words to shock the establishment: peace and love.

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

I know there are online resources for Tolkien's Elvish (or whatever its proper name is).

[magid.livejournal.com]

This way could lie madness...

I might have to do it.

[cnoocy]

Quenya and Sindarin are the two main languages.

[(Anonymous)]

I found a similar site at http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/pace/ when I searched for the Ladino version.

[scholargipsy.livejournal.com]

Heiwa works too; it's really a matter of which connotation you're going for. "Kyuui" signifies tranquility, an aura of peace; "heiwa" from what I understand, is more of a social term, and implies societal harmony. Come to think of it, you're right; that may be a better word for magid's purposes.

My Japanese is pretty poor, all things considered, so don't take my word for much. :)

[scholargipsy.livejournal.com]

Any way of showing it to me? Emailing a scanned image, perhaps? I can check it and/or get the proper kanji for you easily enough.

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

I can put up the two we've been discussing:
Heiwa (平和), peace/harmony. Characters are "even harmony".
Kyuui(休意), peace/tranquility. Characters are "rest mind".

[powerfrau.livejournal.com]

Cool. Will you sell them on Cafe press?

[magid.livejournal.com]

Nope. I'm just hand-painting one T-shirt, not silk-screening (or some-other-process-ing) many.

[(Anonymous)]

You could scan the results, and still give it to cafe press--it is pretty no fuss. ANd then we could all have a copy of your fabulous shirt

[magid.livejournal.com]

You are obviously over-estimating my technological capabilities...

I can try to take photos when it's done, at least.