Workers of the World, in various languages

Copyright © 1998 by Hugo S. Cunningham and other comrades
E-mail: hcunn@tiac.net
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The last sentence of Karl Marx's "Communist Manifesto" (originally written in German, 1848) reads, "Workers of all nations, unite!" It was adopted as a motto of Communist parties everywhere. (And, of course, it lends itself readily to parody.)

I list translations by English alphabetical order of the language's name. Words I am unsure of are followed by question marks; letters I am unsure of are replaced by question marks. Corrections (or additional languages) are welcome.

Late notice! (20040525)
Comrade Coba Steel (E-address), a linguist, has provided a list of translations in the original alphabets, rather than the Latin transcriptions used on this page.
workers.doc

Apart from contributions by readers, my principal sources have been (1) seals of the former Soviet Union and its constituent union republics, and (2) a commemorative website with links to translations of the "Communist Manifesto" in various languages.

language"Workers of all nations, unite!"source or comment
Albanian?
Arabic
Ya 'umaal al-'aalam itahedu!
D.F.
Armenian [Eastern]Proletarner bolor yerkrneri, miahek!HSC
Bahasa (Malay/Indonesian)?
Basque (Euskara)Herri guztietako langilleak, elkar zaitezte!Basque Red Net
BelarussianProletar'ii wsix krain, zluchajcesya!
Bengali?
BulgarianProletarii ot vsichki strani, syedinyavajte se! AG
CatalanProletaris de tots els paďsos, uniu-vos!Catalan C.P.
Chinese [Mandarin Pinyin, numbers for tones]: Quan shijie wuchanzhe, lianhe qilai!
(with tones, numbered 1-4: Quan2 shi4jie4 wu2chan3zhe3, lian2he2 qi3lai2!)
Gao
geming@gmx.net
CzechProletari všech zemí, spojte se! Geraint Jennings
geraint@societe-jersiaise.org
DanishProletarer i alle lande, foren jer!HSC
EnglishWorking men of all countries, unite!HSC
EsperantoProletoj de chiuj landoj, unuighu! Gao
geming@gmx.net
EstonianKoigi maade proletaarlased, uhinege!HSC
FinnishKaikkien maiden proletaarit, liittykää yhteen! Finnish Communist Youth
FrenchProletaires de tous les pays, unissez-vous!HSC
GeorgianProletarebo qvela k(h)veqnisa, sheert(h)p(h)it(h)!HSC
GermanProletarier aller länder, vereinigt euch!HSC
Hebrew
Po'alei kol ha'olam, hit'ahedu!
D.F.
Hindi?
HungarianVilág proletárjai, egyesüljetek! Matthias
ItalianProletari di tutti i paesi, unitevi!HSC
Japanese
Zen sekai no shokunin yo, danketsu shiro!

(another version):
Bankoku no rôdôsha, danketsu seyo!
(This is the translation used by the RCL/kaku-maru in Japan.)
The 2-Belo at the
Meowist International

Gao
geming@gmx.net
Jčrriais (Old Jerseyan,
from Norman French)
Prolétaithes dé touos les pays, euniss'-ous! Geraint Jennings
geraint@societe-jersiaise.org
Kannada?
Korean?
LatvianVisu zemju proletarieši savienojieties!HSC
LithuanianVisu šaliu proletarai, vienykites!HSC
MongolianOron bükhniy proletari nar negdegtün! Gao
geming@gmx.net
PolishProletarjusze wszystkich krajów,
l/asczcie sies!
Belorussian SSR seal, 1937
PortugueseProletários do mundo, uni-vos!HSC, PRW
RomanianProletari din toate târile, uniti-vâ! Geraint Jennings
geraint@societe-jersiaise.org
RussianProletarii vsex stran, soedinyajtes'!HSC
SpanishProletarios de todos los paises, unios!HSC
Swahili?
SwedishProletärer i alla länder, förena er!HSC
Tadjik [related to Farsi(Iranian)]Proletarkhoi khamai mamlakatkho, yak shaved! (?)HSC
Tamil?
TurkishBütün dünyanin proletarlari, birlišiniz! (?)HSC
UkrainianProletari vsix krain, ednaitesya!HSC
Uyghur
(spoken in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of NW China)
Pütün dunya puroletarliri, birlixinglar! Gao
geming@gmx.net
Vietnamese Vo san toan the gioi, lien hop lai!
(tones and other diacritics omitted)
Gao
geming@gmx.net
Yidish
Proletarier fun ale lender, fariinikt zikh!
Belorussian SSR seal, 1937
Script by D.F.

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