Commons:Photo challenge/2017 - February - Multilingualism
2017 – February – Multilingualism
[edit]The new challenge features Multilingualism, signs, documents and activities in more than one language. Photos concerning more than two languages or rare languages are especially welcome.
Ideally, each submission should contain a summary description of the subject in the file information, including the location of the subject, and relevant categories should be added to the files to enable other Commons users to find them and use them. Please take care not to violate copyright in respect of non-free creative works, and observe our educational project scope and the personality rights of identifiable people, or your files may be subject to deletion.
The challenge will remain open for submissions throughout February UTC.
Checklist for this theme:
- Photographs must be the work of the nominator.
- Photographs must be newly uploaded to Commons during the challenge submission period i.e. February 2017 UTC (but may have been taken earlier).
- Submissions must be added to the top of the "Entries" section below.
- Please do not nominate lots of similar photos; instead choose just your best and most varied images.
Add your entry between the <gallery> tags as indicated. Gallery entries are placed each on a new line, and consist of the filename, a vertical bar |, and a description. For example:
Electric steam iron.jpg|An electric steam iron
For help on the syntax of entries in a gallery see Help:Gallery tag. Please do not add square brackets [[ ]] or include a thumb parameter or the full URL. The File: prefix is not required, but harmless.
- Restriction: A maximum of four entries can be submitted per photographer.
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Examples
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Hungarian and Romanian
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Italian and English
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English and Welsh
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Slovakian, Hungarian and English
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Georgian and English
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German, French and Italian
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Japanese and Korean
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Spanish, Valencian and Latin
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English, French, Chinese
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English and Chinese
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International mother tongue day is the 21st of February
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description 1
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Beschreibung 2
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descripción 3
Entries
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Do not touch the works...
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Abbaye de Sénanque, France. Accès au champs de lavandes interdit en 5 langues
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Street signs in French and Dutch in Brussels
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Erinnerung an den maurischen Dichter Ibn Darraj al-Qastalli(arabisch-portugiesisch)
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Old signpost of a public bath in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode in French and Dutch
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Dreisprachiges (in dänisch, englisch und deutsch) Hinweisschild in einem Hotel in Kopenhagen
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Фонтанчик для питьевой воды с описанием на разных языках.
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Street sign in Finnish and Swedish in Helsink
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Sanskrit mantra
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Bus in Helsinki with destination displayed in Finnish and Swedish
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Sanskrit letter and english pronunciation
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Hinweistafel Englisch-Chinesisch im Botanischen Garten der Universität Berkeley in Kalifornien
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Commemorative Coin XI Asian Games Beijing 1990 in Chinese and English
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Backpack with the verb SMILE in English, French, Russian, Portoghese, German, Dutch, Spanish, Chinese, Italian and Greek
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Werbeplakat Japanisch-Englisch in San Francisco-Chinatown
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Plaque next to the main entrance of Museum Casa Guignard in Ouro Preto, Brazil
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What is to be omitted in the Peter & Paul Fortress in St.Petersburg
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English (with an L for better pronounciaton) and Japanese in Tokyo
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"Ski rental" sign in German and Dutch
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Sign at Ardvreck Castle, Scotland in English, Scottish Gaelic, German, Spanish, Italian and French
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Sign at the entrance to Surf Snowdonia, Dolgarrog, Wales in Welsh and English
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Border sign between England and Scotland in English and Scottish Gaelic
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Book on Russian proverbs and their Ukrainian counterparts
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Rätselschild auf der Burg Fleckenstein
Mystery sign on Fleckenstein Castle -
Wegweiser in Südtirol
Direction signs in South Tyrol -
Schmuck aus Silberbesteck
Jewellery from silver cutlery -
Speisekarte in Mallorca
Menu in Majorca -
Seen in Cologne Cathedral - Germany
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Multilingual butcher's poster in Dublin, featuring Polish and Chinese
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National Trust sign in English and Welsh at Glyderau, Snowdonia, Wales
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Warninng on Canon MF6180dw paper tray
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Triple censored 1943 Irish POW mail with Gaelic, English and Japanese language censorship
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Source of the river Piave near Sappada, bilingual information sign in Italian and in the local german dialect.
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Austrian frontline in world war I near Moena. The sign is in Italian and German.
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Givigliana (a frazione of the town Rigolato in Italy), road sign in Friulan (actually in the northern variant spoken in Carnia), Italian and German.
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Signs in Italian, German and Slovenian on the Altopiano del Montasio.
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A trilingual sign in Samedan, Switzerland, informing people about proper behavior with dogs in public. The sign is written in Rumantsch Putèr, German, and Italian.
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A bilingual sign that someone didn't take a liking to. This sign welcomes visitors to the bilingual Canton of Fribourg and was originally written in French ("Pays de Fribourg") and German ("Freiburgerland"). The German portion has been smeared over by vandals. The location of the sign is in the French-speaking part of the Canton, near the border to the Canton of Vaud.
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A trilingual sign in the bathroom of Xichang bus station in Sichuan, China. The sign advises bathroom users to step closer, in Mandarin, English, and the Yi language spoken in the region.
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A bus stop sign in Erenhot in Inner Mongolia, China. The sign is written in Chinese characters, Mongolian in the Mongolian script (used in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China), and Mongolian in the Cyrillic alphabet (used in Mongolia).
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Toys in a Chinese supermarket
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School bags in a Chinese supermarket
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German and Russian language memorial to 47 victims of forced labour
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English and Finnish sheet music
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Finnish and Swedish – state languages in Finland
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Finnish, Northern Sami, Skolt Sami and Inari Sami in Northern Finland
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Norwegian and English in Northern Norway tundra
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Sign in Noto Chiesa di Montevergine on six languages
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Sign in Chiesa di san Giovanni Evangelista Italian and English
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Latin, German, Italian, French and Spanish, inscriptions on the facade of a building in Schaffhausen: "dagli amici mi guardi Iddio che dai nemici mi guardo io"
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Public toilet in San Francisco with seven languages
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Sign in a restorant Alberobello Italian in seven languages
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Stolpersteine in Meran
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Check you have not forgotten anything,Signs in the Paris Metro (France).
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Powerful_braking, Signs in the Paris Metro (France).
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Instructions en braille et français dans une agence du Crédit Agricole (France)
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Doorsign in Tokyo
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Shop in Melamchi, Nepal, with nepalese and english languages
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A sign for the Sami Parliament in three languages. Southern sami, Swedish and English
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A sign for the Library in Östersund. The sign is in Swedish and Southern Sami language
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Rosetta Stone
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Am Strand Grand Makadi in Agypten...
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Proletаrier aller Länder, vereinigt euch! . Aufgenommen in Chemnitz.
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The wall of "Lisbon, city of tolerance", written in 34 different languages - Lisbon (Portugal)
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Rockslide warning at the Bisse du Ro, Canton Valais, Switzerland. French, German, Italian and poor English translation.
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How to behave in the Swiss National Park, Canton Grisons. Sign in six languages: Romansch, German, French, Italian, English and Pictures (Visual)
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Spanish & English, Español & Inglés: Information board in Spanish and English, Lapataia River, Tierra del Fuego National Park, Department Ushuaia, Argentina. Tablón de información en Español y Inglés, Rio Lapataia, Parque nacional Tierra del Fuego, Departamento Ushuaia, Argentina.
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Das Staatswappen der Union der Sozialistischen Sowjetrepubliken von 1958 bis 1991 aus Mineralien und hielt im Natursteine Museum in St. Petersburg. Russland. Slogan "Proletаrien alle Länder, vereinigt euch" in 15 Sprachen über die Zahl der Unionsrepubliken. Russisch, Aserbaidschan, Armenisch,Weißrussisch , Georgisch, Kasachisch, Kirgisisch, Lettisch, Litauisch, Мoldauischen , Tadschiken, Turkmenen, Usbeken, Ukrainisch, Estnisch.
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multilingual wikipedia page on a laptop
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Italian Pizza Shop offerings, languages include English, German, Italian, Greek, Hindi, Russian and more (Japanese? Arabic?)
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Italian, French, English and German sign, on Monte San Salvatore in Switzerland
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Father photographing his son in the Imperial Temple of Emperors of Successive Dynasties in Beijing
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arab hindi and english : 1952 Pakistan stamp
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Epigraph in Jewish and Dutch on the gate of the Jewish cemetery in Gouda, The Netherlands
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Rosetta Stone: a granodiorite stele with a decree written in Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, in Demotic and in Ancient Greek
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Dangerous zone sing in Portuguese, French, English and German
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Innichen (S.Candido) in Südtirol, Gedenktafel an der Stiftskirche - Dokument für das Verbot der Zweisprachigkeit in der Zeit des Faschismus
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Ausweis (France, WW2)
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Trilingual Notice (Sinhalese, Tamil, English) to Koneshwarama Temple.- Sri Lanka
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French, English and German, road sign in Saint Gilles, Camargue
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Multilingualism cloth label : 8 languages and 6 writing system
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Tafel am Grabmahl des Königs Andrianampoinimerina, Ambohimanga, Madagaskar, französisch, malagasy
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Straße nach Ranomafana, Platz für eine Pause, Madagaskar, französisch und englisch
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Ticketschalter in Fianarantsoa am Hauptbahnhof, malagasy und französisch
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Affiche de la Croix-Rouge éthiopienne sur le sida
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Près de la grande mosquée de Harar ( Ethiopie )
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Banknotes hundred rubles. Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Uzbek, Kazakh, Georgian, Azerbaydzhasky, Lithuanian, Moldovan, Latvian, Kyrgyz, Tajik, Armenian, Turkmen, Estonian
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Newspapers in Myanmar
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Gaelic/English sign
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Seurasaari Island and Open-Air Museum. Helsinki, Finland
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Notice board on Embekka Devalaya Temple.- Kandy (Sri Lanka)
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Arabic-English Air Field Sign
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Bilingual sign Italian/Walser in Piedmont (Italy)
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Über allen Wipfeln
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German and Latin, botanical card of Blood Flower
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German and English, square dedicated to the Nobel Prize writer Heinrich Böll in Cologne