Home Forums Blogs Articles Photos Videos Contact FAQ

Palindrome - Palindromes in different languages

Palindrome - Palindromes in different languages: Encyclopedia II - Palindrome - Palindromes in different languages

Palindromes occur in many western languages, but they are particularly prevalent in English due to the wide variety of reversible letter pairs within words. Finnish, however, has been described as "the language of palindromes." Japanese palindromes, called kaibun, rely on the hiragana syllabary. An example is the word shinbunshi (in syllables shi-n-bu-n-shi), meaning "newspaper". The Japanes ...

Palindrome, Palindrome - History, Palindrome - Palindromes in different languages, Palindrome - Types of palindrome, Palindrome - Symmetry by characters, Palindrome - Symmetry by words, Palindrome - Symmetry by lines, Palindrome - Symmetry by sound, Palindrome - Numbers, Palindrome - Dates and times, Palindrome - In music, Palindrome - Computer programs, Palindrome - URLs, Palindrome - Long palindromes, Palindrome - Biological structures, Palindrome - Philosophy of nature, Palindrome - Computation Theory, Palindrome - Further examples

Palindrome, Palindrome - Biological structures, Palindrome - Computation Theory, Palindrome - Computer programs, Palindrome - Dates and times, Palindrome - Further examples, Palindrome - History, Palindrome - In music, Palindrome - Long palindromes, Palindrome - Numbers, Palindrome - Palindromes in different languages, Palindrome - Philosophy of nature, Palindrome - Symmetry by characters, Palindrome - Symmetry by lines, Palindrome - Symmetry by sound, Palindrome - Symmetry by words, Palindrome - Types of palindrome, Palindrome - URLs, ambigram, anagram, Aoxomoxoa by the Grateful Dead, "Bob" (from the album Poodle Hat) by "Weird Al" Yankovic, crab canon, holorhyme, pangram, palindromic number, semordnilap, transcription (linguistics), word games, word play

Palindrome: Encyclopedia II - Palindrome - Palindromes in different languages

Palindrome - Palindromes in different languages

Japanese palindromes, called kaibun, rely on the hiragana syllabary. An example is the word shinbunshi (in syllables shi-n-bu-n-shi), meaning "newspaper". The Japanese syllabary makes it possible to construct very long palindromes.

Chinese palindromes are relatively easy to create due to the structure of written Chinese. For example: 我愛媽媽,媽媽愛我 ("I love Mom; Mom loves me") — usually the first palindrome learned by Chinese children. Numerous palindromes can be created by replacing "媽媽"(Mom) with any person. As a result, only very special palindromes are worth mentioning.

Other related archives

"Weird Al" Yankovic, Alban Berg, Aoxomoxoa, Automata Theory, Baby Gramps, Bill Bryson, Bob Dylan, Béla Bartók, C, Caml, Chinese, DNA, December, Doppelganger, Douglas Hofstadter, English, February, Finnish, Grateful Dead, Greek, Gödel, Escher, Bach, I Palindrome I, Icelandic, International Obfuscated C Code Contest, J. S. Bach, James Tenney, Japanese, Lulu, MC Paul Barman, Nerdcore, October, Palindromes (movie), Palindromic number, Palindromic phrases, Palindromic words, Peter Norvig, Poodle Hat, Sator Arepo Tenet Opera Rotas, Sigur Rós, Steve Reich, Subterranean Homesick Blues, They Might be Giants, URLs, alphabet, ambigram, anagram, arch form, astrophysical-biological, axiological, bacterial, band, biocentric, canon, cell, classical music, constrained writing, context-free, crab canon, downloaded, ecofeminism, ecology, entropize, environmental, ethics, evolution, genetic, genomes, hairpin, hiragana, holorhyme, kaibun, language, nucleotides, number, palindromic number, pangram, philosophy, proteins, psi, pushdown automaton, rapper, regular, see separate article, semordnilap, set, syllabary, tartrates, transcription (linguistics), website, word games, word play, word square, Ágætis byrjun

Adapted from the Wikipedia article "Palindromes in different languages", under the G.N U Free Docmentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

More material related to Palindrome can be found here:

Main Page
for
Palindrome Index of Articles
related to
Palindrome