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Deaf Fun - How Say Deaf?

How Do You Say "Deaf" Around the World?

By Jamie Berke, About.com

Updated: December 18, 2007

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Language

Afrikaans doof
Albanian shurdër
Arabic Link to Translation
Basque gorrak
Bengali ThawshA
Bulgarian Link to Translation
Catalan sord -a
Cebuano bungol
Chinese Link to Translation Tool
Croatian gluv
Czech Link to Translation
Danish døv
Dutch doof
English Deaf
Esperanto surd/a
Estonian kurt
Farsi Link to Translation
Finnish kuuro
French sourd
Frisian dôf
German taub
Greek Link to Translation
Hungarian süket
Ilongo bungol
Indonesian Tuli
Italian sordo
Japanese roua
Latvian Link to Translation
Norwegian døv
Persian kar
Polish Link to Translation
Portuguese surdo
Romanian surd
Russian Link to Translation
Sanskrit akarNa
Serbo-Croatian Link to Translation
Slovak Link to Translation
Slovenian gluh
Spanish sordo
Swahili kiziwi
Swedish döv
Tagalog bingi
Turkish saDir
Urdu behra
Vietnamese diec
Yiddish Link to Translation

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