Tea in 662 languages

662 languages

Tea — the hot beverage brewed from the leaves of Camellia sinensis, and the world's second most-drunk drink after water. Its name almost everywhere traces to one of two routes out of China: the overland Silk Road spread northern-Chinese chá (giving chai, chay, çay, shāy), while Dutch ships carrying Fujianese tê by sea spread it as tea, thé, Tee. A few languages (Polish herbata, Lithuanian arbata) keep a third, Latin-derived root.

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Major languages

Chinese

茶

/ʈʂʰä˧˥/

2 different spellings

茶

/ʈʂʰä˧˥/

Mandarin Chinese

/tsʰa˨˩/

Sichuan Mandarin Chengdu Mandarin Chongqing Mandarin

/tsʰaː˨˩/

Cantonese Cantonese Classical Chinese

/zo˨˧/

Shanghai Wu

/tsʰa˧˥/

Jianghuai Mandarin

/tsʰa˩/

Jin

/te˨˦/

Taiwanese Quanzhou Hokkien Philippine Hokkien Xiamen Hokkien

/tsʰa˩˩/

Hakka Chinese Taiwanese Hakka Jiʼan Gan

/tsa˩˧/

Xiang

/tsʰa˨˦/

Gan Fuzhou Gan Xi'an Mandarin

/tʂʰa˧˥/

Northeastern Mandarin

/te˥˥/

Teochew

/ta˥˧/

Eastern Min

/ta˧˧/

Northern Min

/tsʰɑ˦˥/

Tianjin Mandarin

/tsʰa˨˩˧/

Wuhan Mandarin

/tʂʰa˦˨/

Zhongyuan Mandarin Jinan Mandarin Kaifeng Mandarin

/zu˨˨˧/

Suzhou Wu

/ɗɛ˧˩/

Hainanese

/tʂʰa˥˧/

Lanyin Mandarin

/dzo˧˩/

Wenzhou Wu

/tsʰa˨˨/

Taishanese

/tsɔ˦˦/

Hui Chinese

/tɒ˩˧/

Pu-Xian Min

/tsʰaː˨˩˦/

Huazhou Yue

/tsʰa˥˥/

Hailu Hakka

/tɛ˨˧/

Penang Hokkien

/tʃʰa˧˩/

Dongguan Yue

/tʂʰa/

Early Mandarin (Zhongyuan Yinyun)

/dzɑ˨˩˧/

Hangzhou Wu

/tʂʰa˥˥/

Hefei Mandarin

/tsua˩˩˨/

Hengyang Xiang

/zo˧˩/

Jiaxing Wu

/dzuɑ˧˩˧/

Jinhua Wu

/tʂʰᴀ˧˩/

Kunming Mandarin

/tsʰa˦˦/

Lüliang Jin

/tʂʰa˨˦/

Nanjing Mandarin

/tʃʰa˨˩/

Nanning Yue

/ʈʂʰa˧˥/

Taiwan Mandarin

/ɖaɨ/

Middle Chinese

/ʈaː˨˩/

Vietnamese Hán văn

/tsʰo˩˩/

Wuyuan Hui

/tsʰɑ˧˩/

Xinzhou Jin

/tsʰa˧˧/

Yichun Gan

/za˩˩˨/

Yongzhou Xiang

/tɛ˩˧/

Zhangzhou Hokkien

/tsʰa˥˩/

Zhongshan Yue

ца

/tsʰa˨˦/

Dungan

Urdu

چائے

/tʃaːeː/

Tamil

தேநீர்

/t̪eːniːɾ/

East Asia (25)

Yi

ꆿꒉ

/la˥˥ʑɿ˧˧/

Southeast Asia (45)

Mizo

thingpui

/tʰiŋpui/

Lao

ຊາ

/saː˧˥/

Burmese

လက်ဖက်ရည်

/ləpʰɛʔ jè/

Shan

ၼမ်ႉၼဵင်ႈ

/nam˦˨ˀ neŋ˧˨/

Rakhine

လက်ဖက်

/ləpʰɔʔ/

Wa

chax

/tɕʰaʔ/

Mon

ဍာ်လက်ဖက်

/ɗaik ləpʰɛk/

Jingpo

hpa lap

/pʰaʔ˧˩ lap˧˩/

Thai

ชา

/tɕʰaː˧/

2 readings of the same spelling

/tɕʰaː˧/

Thai

/tɕʰaː˥/

Southern Thai

Kuy

tɛː

/tɛː/

South Asia (41)

Dari

چای

/tʃɑːj/

Bodo

साहा

/saha/

Ho

chaa

/tʃaː/

Middle East & Central Asia (50)

Afar

shaahí

/ʃaːhi/

Svan

ჩაი

/tʃʰai/

Lak

чяй

/tʃjaj/

Laz

ჩაჲი

/tʃʰaji/

Europe (111)

Africa (94)

Ga

tii

/tiː/

North America (56)

Cree

ᓂᐦᑎᕀ

/nihtij/

Cheyenne

véhpotséhohpe

/véhpotséhohpe/

Aleut

chaayux́

/tʃaːjuχ/

Latin America (21)

Oceania & the Pacific (28)

Siberia & North Asia (20)

Ket

сяʼй

/sʲaʔj/

Ancient & historical (7)

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