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Did you know that the "sport" word is used by a very large community and in
many languages. It find its origin in the ancient French word "desporter". It
became immensely successful over centuries. To the point that more than 1.4
billion people use "sport" daily in their language.
We have already identified a lot of them, but the list below is in no way
limitative:
| Language | Country | Remarks |
| Afrikaans | South Africa | |
| Boarisch | Germany | Austro Bavarian |
| Bosanski | Bosnia | |
| Breton | France | |
| Croatian | Croatia | |
| Czech | Czech Republic | |
| Danish | Denmark | |
| Deitsch | USA | Pennsylviana German |
| Dutch | Netherlands, Belgium |
|
| German | Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg | |
| English | UK, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa |
|
| Estonian | Estonia | |
| French | France, Belgium, Switzertland, Canada, Luxembourg | |
| Frysk | Netherlands | |
| Furlan | Italy | |
| Hungarian | Hungary | |
| Interlingua | ||
| Interlingue | ||
| Italian | Italy | |
| Luxemburgish | Luxembourg | |
| Norwegian | Norway | Bokmål |
| Nedersaksisch | Netherlands | |
| Neapolitan | Italy | |
| Norman | France | |
| Polish | Poland | |
| Romanian | Romania | |
| Romansh | Switzerland | |
| Serbian | Serbia | latinic script |
| Sicilian | Italy | |
| Swedish | Sweden | |
| Turkmen | Turkmenistan | |
| Uzbek | Uzbekistan | |
| Võro | Estonia | |
| Zeelandic | Netherlands |
Other languages use derived forms of the word "sport": spor, sporto, sporta, desporte, etc.
In other alphabets:
- Cyrillic ("Спорт"), used in several Slavic languages
(To be continued).
Published on Saturday 24 May 2008 by DotSport