European word translator: an interactive map showing words in over 30 languages

Wiktionary has dialect maps for common Chinese vocabulary that showcases the differences in terminology across various regions of Chinese, rather than their similarities. Example: sleep -> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Template:zh-dial-map/%E7%9D%A... , hide-and-seek -> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Template:zh-dial-map/%E6%8D%8...

p.s. I'm saying this because most of these terms that has a dial-map are common in daily conversation. The differences in written Chinese vocabulary aren't as significant; how scientific and technical terms are expressed is largely determined by your administrative region.

Ukrainian and russian words often use the same letters but are pronounced very differently due to distinct phonetics. On the other hand, some Polish and Czech words sound the same or very similar to Ukrainian but look quite different because of their different alphabets. Therefore, phonetic transcription would be a valuable improvement.

Perhaps of interest, the translation guesses things like age relations and genders. This is accurate when the word has that same meaning in English, like nun and monk have a gender, but e.g. the word hairdresser in English is translated to a specific gender in German and Dutch even though the original didn't have one. Similarly for diminutives: "brother" (broer) usually means "big brother" in Dutch because for a younger brother you'd add a diminutive suffix. It's hard to define, but maybe: words that are not synonyms, yet all translate back to your input. (The reverse also exists, of course: insulation and isolation isn't differentiated in Dutch)

The map would be more complete with this information because it may be very similar or completely different and can be interesting to compare, for example:

- EN: receptionist for both, NL: receptionist and receptioniste, DE: rezeptionist and empfangsdame. The map currently just shows the female version for German, without indication that they also use a transliteration of the English.

- EN: little brother, NL: broertje (the submission shows a doubled up version of kleine broertje), DE: kleiner Bruder. Although German has the diminutive suffix to make Brüderchen, they don't use it the way that we do, which I find interesting to see.

Google Translate's API can output multiple options, <https://cloud.google.com/translate/docs/reference/rest/v3bet...>, and Google's own website seems to indeed provide these different variants, but there is no label to say what the different array entries mean the way that Google's own website shows

I got curious which gender it guesses that you might mean. It seems to assume a male unless it's also very heavily female-connotated in English. In Dutch and German, it outputs male for hairdresser and doctor, female for nurse and receptionist (German translations mean "sick-sister" and "reception lady", respectively), and mixed for secretary (female in Dutch, male in German) because Dutch doesn't have a male word for it anymore (only workarounds)

I can mostly speak for German. It seems to mix them all into one general language. But there are a lot of local differences between north and south of Germany, Switzerland and Austria. And it’s not just dialect, but really different words that might not be understood everywhere. If you look at the english part it has at least three different words. Similar in Spanish.

You immediately see the difference (or similarly) of languages when using words that are very old, such as "iron", or "stone", which are words that have existed from the origins of that language.

Huh, the example "she runs" is not correct in Polish. Currently translates to "ona działa" = "she functions."

She runs, as in the form of locomotion, is "ona biega."

There are examples from five language families shown here: Indo-European, Basque, Uralic, Turkic, and Afro-Asiatic.

The words for bridge split neatly into language subfamilies. The only exception appears to be Welsh.

You are coloring it by 4 colors like map but you should color countries phonetically (speex, levenshtein or something similar)

Love that the numbers in Catalan are represented as numerals, not as words.

EDIT: playing with it, it's a bit sad that large numbers do not work at all (in any language); and that not all common forms of a word are shown. For example, I tried to see how "ninety six" is said in french in France, Belgium and Switzerland, but it does not work.