HOW TO SAY DRAGON in LOTS of DIFFERENT LANGUAGES African: nrgwenya Afrikaans: Draak Arabic: ah-teen (pl. tah-neen), (Al)Tineen, Plural: (Al)Tananeen Athebascin (Alasken): Manchu Austrian: Drach`n, Lindwurm Bulgarian: drakon (phonetic), äðàêîí (Actual spelling) Catalan (N/E Spain): drac Chinese: lung/long, Liung (Hakka dialect) Chinese: old & new: Croatian/Serbian: zmaj (pronounced "zmai" means Dragon), azdaja (pronounced "azhdaya" means Hydra) Czech: Drak, Dráèek (Draaachek) Danish: drage Dansk: drage Draconian: Khoth, (pl. Khothu) Driigaran (music language): C4 G4 C5 D5 B5 C5 Double-Dutch: dridi-gag-dridi-gen Dutch: draak Elven/Drow: Tagnik'zur Egg-Latin: Dreggageggon English: dragon English (Middle): dragun, dragoun English (Old): draca Enochian: Vovin (Voh-een) Esperanto: drako, dragono Estonian: draakon, lohe, lohemadu or tuuleuss (Wind Snake), lendav madu Euskera (dialect of the Basque Country): Erensuge Faeroese: eitt dreki, eitt flogdreki, ein fraenarormur Finnish: lohikäärme, draakki, dragoni Fire Witch tongue: Katash wei' vorki (kah-TASH whey VOR-key) Flambian: kazyeeqen (comes from kazyee-aqen, fire lizard) Flemmish: Draeke French: dragon,dragun, dargon Gaelic: Arach German: drache (pl. Drachen), Lindwurm, drake (pl. draken) Greek: drakon, drako. Male: drakos (or thrakos), Female: drakena (or thrakena) Greek (ancient): Male: drakkon (or thrakon), Female: drakkina (or thrakena) Hawaiian: Kelekona, (plural) Na Kelekona Hebrew: drakon (plural) drakonim, Tanniym Hungarian: sarkany Icelandic: dreki Indonesian: Naga Iranian: Ejdeha Islamic: th'uban, tinnin Italian: drago, dragone, volante, dragonessa Japanese: ryu, tatsu Jibberish: gidadraggidaen (pronunced "gid-a-drag-gid-ah-en") Klingon: lung'a' puv (pronounced loong-AH poov) "Flying Great Lizard" Korean: yong Latin: draco, dracon, draco, dragon, dragoon, serpent,serpens Luxembourgian: Draach Middle earth Ency.: Angulóce: generic, Ramalóce: winged dragon, Urulóce: fire breath dragon Malay: Naga Milanese (Italy): Dragh, Draguun,Dragoon New Zeland (Maori): tarakona Norse: ormr Norsk: drake, dragonet, liten drake Norwegian: drage Oppish: dropagoponop (pronounced drop-ag-op-an-op) Ourainic Barb: Duxobum Philippines: male: dragon short o, female: Dragona with a short o and a Pig-Latin: Agon-dray Polish: smok Portuguese: dragão Quenya (elven): Loke, winged: Ramaloke, sea: Lingwiloke, fire: Uruloke Reinitian (of Reinita): Dralaghajh Roman: draco Romanian: Dragon, (pl. Dragoni), Zmeu (pl. Zmei), dracul, drakul Russian: drakon Sanskrit: naga (type of snake-human-dragon) Slovenia: Zmaj = Dragon, Hidra = Hydra. Spanish: dragón, El Draque, Brujah Swedish: drake, lindorm Swedish (Ancient): flugdrake, floghdraki Swiss German: Drachä Tagalog: drakón Thai: mung-korn Tibetan: Brug (this is pronounced in several ways depending on dialect, DROOK, being the most common. Only in Ladakh is it ever pronounced BRUG) Turkish: ejderha Ukrainian: drakon Vietnamese: Rong (poetic), rng (regular) Welsh: Ddraig Yugoslav: Zmaj, Azdaja Zulu: uzekamanzi http://www.draconian.com/say/say.htm posted by: Susan Lynne Schwenger