Language

At sign in 208 languages

208 languages

The name spoken for the “@” symbol — which varies wildly by language, often a playful animal (snail, monkey's tail, dog) or food (strudel, rollmops), and elsewhere simply a borrowing of English “at”.

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Major languages

English

/æt/

5 readings of the same spelling

Chinese

艾特

/aɪ̯˥˩ tʰɤ˥˩/

3 different spellings

艾特

/aɪ̯˥˩ tʰɤ˥˩/

Mandarin Chinese Northeastern Mandarin

/ɛːt̚˥/

Cantonese

小老鼠

/ɕi̯ɑʊ̯˨˩˦ lɑʊ̯˨˩˦ ʂu˨˩˦/

Taiwan Mandarin

Hindi

एट

/eːʈ/

Modern Standard Arabic

آت

/ʔaːt/

said the same in 12 places

/ʔaːt/

Modern Standard Arabic Egyptian Arabic Iraqi Arabic Moroccan Arabic Levantine Arabic Sudanese Arabic Tunisian Arabic Gulf Arabic Lebanese Arabic Najdi Arabic Syrian Arabic Yemeni Arabic

French

arobase

/aʁɔbaz/

2 different spellings

arobase

/aʁɔbaz/

French African French Belgian French Swiss French Haitian French Ivorian French Senegalese French

a commercial

/a kɔmɛʁsjal/

Québec French

Bengali

অ্যাট

/æʈ/

Urdu

ایٹ

/ɛːʈ/

Portuguese

arroba

/aˈʁɔbɐ/

2 readings of the same spelling

/aˈʁɔbɐ/

Brazilian Portuguese

/ɐˈʁɔβɐ/

Portuguese Angolan Portuguese Cape Verdean Portuguese Mozambican Portuguese

Russian

собака

/sɐˈbakə/

Indonesian

/ɛt/

Punjabi

ਐਟ

/ɛːʈ/

Spanish

arroba

/aˈroβa/

said the same in 14 places

/aˈroβa/

Mexican Spanish Colombian Spanish Spanish Argentine Spanish Peruvian Spanish Chilean Spanish Cuban Spanish Andalusian Spanish Dominican Spanish Ecuadorian Spanish Guatemalan Spanish Puerto Rican Spanish Uruguayan Spanish Venezuelan Spanish

German

Klammeraffe

/ˈklamɐʔˌafə/

said the same in 2 places

/ˈklamɐʔˌafə/

German Austrian German

Japanese

アットマーク

/atːomaːkɯ/

2 readings of the same spelling

/atːomaːkɯ/

Japanese Osaka Japanese Hiroshima Japanese Hakata Japanese Kagoshima Japanese Kyoto Japanese

/atːomaːɡɯ/

Sendai Japanese Aomori Japanese

Persian

ات

/ʔæt/

Swahili

/at/

Vietnamese

a còng

/aː˧ kɔŋ͡m˨˩/

2 readings of the same spelling

/aː˧ kɔŋ͡m˨˩/

Vietnamese Southern Vietnamese

/aː˥ kɔŋ͡m˦˨/

Central Vietnamese

Turkish

/et/

Marathi

ॲट

/æʈ/

Telugu

ఎట్

/eʈ/

Tagalog

/ʔat/

Korean

골뱅이

/kolbɛŋi/

said the same in 6 places

/kolbɛŋi/

Korean North Korean Busan Korean Jeolla Korean Hamgyong Korean Yanbian Korean

Tamil

அட்

/aʈ/

Malay

/di/

East Asia (3)

Macanese Portuguese

arroba

/ɐˈʁɔβɐ/

Mongolian

эт

/et/

Jeju

골뱅이

/kolbɛŋi/

Southeast Asia (5)

Khmer

អាត

/ʔaːt/

Malaysian English

/æt/

Burmese

အက်

/ʔɛʔ/

Thai

แอท

/ʔɛːt̚˨˩/

2 readings of the same spelling

/ʔɛːt̚˨˩/

Thai Northern Thai

/ʔɛːt˨˩/

Southern Thai

Isan

แอท

/ʔɛːt̚˨˩/

South Asia (8)

Pashto

اېټ

/eːʈ/

Dari

ات

/at/

Gujarati

ઍટ

/æʈ/

Kannada

ಎಟ್

/eʈ/

Malayalam

അറ്റ്

/atːɨ/

Odia

ଆଟ୍

/aʈ/

Nepali

एट

/eʈ/

Sinhala

ඇට්

/æʈ/

Middle East & Central Asia (17)

Armenian

շնիկ

/ʃəˈnik/

Azerbaijani

ət

/æt/

Bahrani Arabic

آت

/ʔaːt/

Georgian

ეთ-ი

/etʰi/

Sorani Kurdish

ئەت

/ʔɛt/

Hebrew

שטרודל

/ˈʃtʁudel/

Ladino

arroba

/aˈroba/

Jordanian Arabic

آت

/ʔaːt/

Kazakh

айқұлақ

/ɑjqʊlɑq/

Kyrgyz

маймылча

/mɑjmɯlˈtʃɑ/

Western Armenian

շնիկ

/ʃəˈniɡ/

Palestinian Arabic

آت

/ʔaːt/

Qatari Arabic

آت

/ʔaːt/

Hijazi Arabic

آت

/ʔaːt/

Tajik

ат

/at/

Kurdish

/ɑːt/

Uzbek

kuchukcha

/kutʃukˈtʃa/

Europe (52)

Albanian

/ɛt/

Gheg Albanian

/ɛt/

Algerian Arabic

آت

/ʔaːt/

Belarusian

слімак

/ˈslʲimak/

Walloon

arobasse

/aʁɔˈbas/

Bosnian

/ɛt/

Bulgarian

маймунка

/mɐjˈmunkɐ/

Croatian

manki

/ˈmaŋki/

Czech

zavináč

/ˈzavɪnaːtʃ/

Danish

snabel-a

/ˈsneˀbl̩æˀ/

Estonian

ätt

/ætː/

Faroese

kurla

/ˈkʰʊɭa/

Finnish

kissanhäntä

/ˈkisːɑnhæntæ/

Occitan

arròba

/aˈrɔβɔ/

Corsican

ciuvodda

/tʃuˈvɔɖɖa/

Greek

παπάκι

/paˈpaci/

Hungarian

kukac

/ˈkukɒts/

Icelandic

atmerki

/ˈaːtmɛrcɪ/

Irish

/aɡ/

Italian

chiocciola

/ˈkjɔttʃola/

Latvian

/et/

Lithuanian

eta

/ɛˈtaː/

Luxembourg French

arobase

/aʁɔbaz/

Luxembourgish German

Klammeraffe

/ˈklamɐˌʔafə/

Dutch

apenstaartje

/ˈaːpənstaːrtjə/

said the same in 2 places

/ˈaːpənstaːrtjə/

Dutch Belgian Dutch

Macedonian

мајмунче

/ˈmajmuntʃɛ/

Norwegian

krøllalfa

/ˈkrœlːɑlfɑ/

Norwegian Nynorsk

krøllalfa

/ˈkrœlːɑlfɑ/

Polish

małpa

/ˈmawpa/

Silesian

afa

/ˈafa/

Kashubian

smôrzcz

Romanian

coadă de maimuță

/ˈko̯adə de majˈmutsə/

Kalmyk

эт

/et/

Serbian

мајмунче

/ˈmajmuntʃe/

Slovak

zavináč

/ˈzavɪnaːtʃ/

Slovenian

afna

/ˈaːfna/

Catalan

arrova

/əˈrɔβə/

2 readings of the same spelling

/əˈrɔβə/

Catalan

/aˈrɔva/

Valencian

Galician

arroba

/aˈrɔβɐ/

Basque

a bildua

/a βilˈdua/

Extremaduran

arroba

/aˈroβa/

Asturian

arroba

/aˈroβa/

Aragonese

arroba

/aˈroβa/

Swedish

snabel-a

/ˈsnɑːbɛlɑː/

Meänkieli

häntä-aa

/ˈhæntæˌɑː/

Swiss German

Affenschwanz

/ˈafənʃvants/

Norman

/a/

Ukrainian

равлик

/ˈrɑu̯lɪk/

Scots

/at/

Welsh

malwen

/ˈmalwɛn/

Jèrriais

/a/

Esperanto

heliko

/heˈliko/

Ido

arobo

/aˈrobo/

Africa (6)

Cameroonian French

arobase

/aʁɔbaz/

Amharic

አት

/ʔat/

Ghanaian English

/æt/

Libyan Arabic

آت

/ʔaːt/

Western Maninkakan

arobaasi

/aɾobaːsi/

Afrikaans

aapstert

/ˈɑːpstɛrt/

North America (2)

Greenlandic

aajusaq

/aːjusaq/

Honduran Spanish

arroba

/aˈroβa/

Latin America (7)

Bolivian Spanish

arroba

/aˈroβa/

Wayuu

aroowa

/aroːwa/

Costa Rican Spanish

arroba

/aˈroβa/

Salvadoran Spanish

arroba

/aˈroβa/

Nicaraguan Spanish

arroba

/aˈroβa/

Panamanian Spanish

arroba

/aˈroβa/

Paraguayan Spanish

arroba

/aˈroβa/

Ancient & historical (2)

Old Spanish

10–15c

arroba

/aˈroba/

Golden Age Spanish

15–17c

arroba

/aˈroβa/

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