COVID-19 Myth Busters in World Languages
Information in many languages
New languages are added every Monday as we receive more translations!
Adapted from the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) advice for the public: Myth busters compiled by the World Health Organization (WHO)
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As of February 14, 2022, available in 125 languages. (updated with 10 new versions on Feb. 14)
Acehnese بهسا اچيه (Indonesia)
Angami, Tenyidie (Nagaland, India) [sound available]
Bamum – Şûpǎmə̀m (Cameroon) [sound available]
Bodo बर’/बड़ (India) [sound available]
Burmese မြန်မာစာ (Myanmar) [sound available]
Catalan Català [sound available]
Drenjongke Bhutia འབྲས་ལྗོངས་ སྐད། (Sikkim, India) [sound available]
Dutch (The Netherlands, Belgium)
English (adapted text from WHO)
Finnish suomen kieli (Finland)
German Deutsch (Germany, Austria, Switzerland)
Indonesian bahasa Indonesia (Indonesia)
Iraqw Kángw Iraqw (Tanzania) [sound available]
Japanese, Osaka 大阪弁(日本語摂津方言) (Japan)
Japanese Sign Language 日本手話 (Japan)
Kam Gaeml (China) [sound available]
Kiribati Taetae ni Kiribati (Kiribati)
Korean – Gyeongsang Dialect (Korea)
Kurumba (India) [sound available]
Lepcha ᰛᰩᰵᰛᰧᰵᰶ (India) [sound available]
Likpakpaln (Ghana) [sound available]
Malay Bahasa Melayu (Malaysia)
Malapulaya – Malayalam (India)
Mapudungun (Chile) [sound available]
Meeteilon ꯃꯤꯇꯩꯂꯣꯟ (Manipur, India)
Mixtec, Tlahuapa-Guerrero (Mexico)
Mixtec, Mixtepec / Yucunani Sàꞌán Sàvǐ (Mexico)
Mizo Mizo ṭawng (Mizoram India) [sound available]
isiNdebele, Southern (South Africa)
Northern Sotho Sesotho sa Leboa (South Africa)
Nuosu Yi ꆈꌠꉙ (China) [sound available]
Plattdüütsch, Low German (Germany) [sound available]
Rejang (Indonesia) [sound available]
Romanian limba română (Romania)
Sesotho (Lesotho, South Africa)
Tagalog Wikang Tagalog (the Philippines)
Tshiluba (République Démocratique du Congo)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt (Vietnam)
Zamboangueño Chabacano (Philippines, Zamboanga del Sur)
Igbo (Nigeria) [in preparation]
Madurese (Indonesia) [in preparation]
Marathi (India) [in preparation]
Minangkabau (Indonesia) [in preparation]
Odia (India) [in preparation]
South African Sign Language (South Africa) [in preparation]
Tok Pisin (Papua New Guinea) [in preparation]
[coming soon] means that a translation has been received.
[in preparation] means that a translation is being prepared.
We thank our volunteer translators: Triya Mutia and Zulfadli A. Aziz (Acehnese), Anjusha C. M.* (Aḍiya), Engela de Villiers (Afrikaans), Jyoti Kumari (Angika), Mona Hassan Ahmed Sawy and Dr. Thajudeen A.S.(Arabic), Bidisha Buragohain (Assamese অসমীয়া), Dr. Solange Pawou Molu (Bamum – Şûpǎmə̀m), Mamta Yadav (Banarasi Bhojpuriv), Makasso Emmanuel-Moselly (Basaá), Anwesha Roy (Bengali), Manoj Baro (Bodo), Ne Myo Aung (Burmese), Michelle Man-Long Pang (Cantonese), Guillem Belmar Viernes (Catalan), Byunggyu Kang & Hsu Chun Hua (Chinese 繁體), Alexander Angsongna (Dàgáárè), Kunzang Namgyal (Drenjongke/Bhutia), Josephine Matser (Dutch), Fuminobu Nishida (Dzongkha), Pascal Kpodo (Ewe), Tommi A. Pirinen (Finnish), Céleste Guillemot (French), Markus Pöchtrager (German), Pocket Theatre Cyprus Θέατρο Τσέπης (Greek), Samuel Awinkene Atintono (Gurenɛ), Dr. Muhammad Sulaiman Abdullahi (Hausa), Keao NeSmith, PhD (Hawaiian), Sophie Srishti Richa (Hindi), Vixay Vue (White Hmong), Judit Katalin Hollos (Hungarian), Zulfadli A. Aziz (Indonesian), Chrispina Alphonce (Iraqw), Rami Attappady (Iruḷa*), Giuseppe Magistro (Italian), Kunihiko Kuroki 黒木邦彦 (Japanese), So Miyagawa (Japanese, Osaka) Ai Minakawa 皆川 愛 (Japanese Sign Language 日本手話), Keita Kurabe & Lu Aung (Jinghpaw), Daniel TY Yang (Kam), Dr. B.S.Shivakumar, Dravidian University (Kannada), Tomás Alberto Méndez López (K’iche’), Juan Ajsivinac (Kaqchikel), Tekonnang Timee (Kiribati), M. Rajakrishna and K. Maruthi Rao, Dravidian University (Kolami), Kyoungwon Jeong 정경원 (Korean), Choi Hyeon Ae (Korean, Gyeongsang), K.Suryanarayana, Dravidian University (Koya), Hemn Mahmood Aghabawa (Kurdish/Sorani), Valli Chinnaraj, Paloor (Kurumba*), Pushpa Thomas Choden Lepcha (Lepcha), Kwesi Abraham Bisilki (Likpakpaln), Marc Real (Low Franconian, Neerfränkesch), Awandu Dorice Awino & Turfim Oyugi Osongo (Luo), Linda Fitria (Madurese), Nihal Kumar (Maithili), Vanitha V.* (Malapulaya – Malayalam), Dr. Arul Dayanand* (Malapulaya – Tamil), Le Xuan Chan (Malay), Lt Dr P Sreekumar CPeDL, Dravidian University (Malayalam), Tajriani Thalib (Mandar), Rob Teare (Manx / Gaelg), Juan Héctor Painqueo Paillán (Mapudungun), Dev Virahsawmy (Mauritian Creole), Yaibeelen Mangang (Meeteilon), Ramzy Mualiawan & Arjuna Fikrillah (Minangkabau), Griselda Reyes and Simon Peters (Mixtec, Tlahuapa-Guerrero), Jeremías Salazar, Esperanza Salazar, Griselda Reyes Basurto, Guillem Belmar Viernes (Mixtec, Mixtepec / Yucunani Sàꞌán Sàvǐ), O. Kherlen (Mongolian), Valli Chinnaraj* (Muḍuga), Suseela A, Marayoor* (Muthuva), Piet Jan Masilela (Ndebele), Anugrah No’inötö Göri (Nias), ML Matheere (Northern Sotho), Siril E.H. Tronseth (Norwegian), LAMA Ziwo, DAXI Aqie, and WUNI Muji(Nuosu Yi), Mendem Bapuji & Bhimasen Bhol & Raju Oyal (Ollari Gadaba), Prajitha C, Mananthavady for CELK* (Paniya), Simon Stuevel (Plattdüütsch), Nihal Kumar, Banaras Hindu Univ. (Punjabi), Janett Vengoa (Quechua), Bakul Ray (Rajbongshi), M. Fikri Ansori and Mifta Huljanna (Rejang), Marilena Craciunescu (Romanian), Cherubin MUGISHA (KiRundi), anonymous and Elena Koulidobrova (Russian), Marija SAVIĆ (Serbian), Maseanakoena Amina Mokoaleli (Sesotho), Solomon Gwerevende (Shona), Li Sui Gwee (Singlish), Nyambi Bongane (Siswati), Yuk Ki Baldoria Wu & Daniela Mena (Spanish), Keerthi Priya, Dravidian University (Sugali), Daisuke Shinagawa & Chrispina Alphonse (Swahili), Alexis Andrea Dimen Tamayo (Tagalog), Dr. M.C. Kesava Murty & M. Rajakrishna, Dravidian University (Telugu), Sugunya Ruangjaroon (Thai), Charles Tshiunza wa Tshiunza (Tshiluba), Salphina Mbedzi (Tshivenda), Dr. Sayeegeetha (Tulu), Dr. Zeynep Erdil-Moody (Turkish), Freda Asante-Kumi (Twi), Nadeem Ahmad & Zaigham Ullah Khosa (Urdu), Tomás Alberto Méndez López (Uspanteko), Elmurod Kuriyozov (Uzbek O’zbekcha), Crous Hlungwani (Xitsonga), Toyib Babátúndé Musa (Yoruba), Eliezer Niborski and Shlomo Lermanv (Yiddish), Robin Atilano De Los Reyes (Zamboangueño Chabacano) and anonymous translators for Angami Tenyidie, Aragonés, Asturiano, Bulgarian, Simplified Chinese 简体, Liangmai, Mizo, Nepali, Português Brasileiro, Serbian, Swedish, Taiwanese, Tamil, Turkmen, Vietnamese, and isiXhosa.
*CELK = Centre for Endangered Languages of Kerala
All sharable files and images are created by Daehan Won of Design Studio C-clef. The French google form is prepared by Céleste Guillemot, and the Spanish google form by Daniela Mena. This website is co-maintained by ICU Linguistics Lab and Dr. Seunghun J. Lee in Tokyo, Japan.
Citation:
Lee, Seunghun J. & Daehan Won (2020) COVID-19 Myth Busters from WHO in World Languages: [Insert Language Name] URL: https://covid-no-mb.org. Retrieved on [DATE].
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International Christian University,
Establishment of a Research Network for Exploring the Linguistic Diversity and Linguistic Dynamism in Africa (ReNeLDA),
MER Mathivha Centre for African Languages, Arts and Culture,
University of Venda,
Dr. Shigeto Kawahara (the Keio Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies),
Dr P. Sreekumar, and Dr. M. C. Kesva Murty, (CPeDL) Centre for Preservation of Endangered Dravidian Languages, Dravidian University,
Centre for Endangered Languages of Kerala (CeLK) @ University of Kerala,
Dr. G. Praveen (Banaras Hindu University)
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This translation was not created by the World Health Organization (WHO). WHO is not responsible for the content or accuracy of this translation. The original edition “Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) advice for the public: Myth busters. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2020. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO” shall be the binding and authentic edition.
This is an adaptation of an original work “Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) advice for the public: Myth busters. Geneva: World Health Organization (WHO); [2020]. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO”. This adaptation was not created by WHO. WHO is not responsible for the content or accuracy of this adaptation. The original edition shall be the binding and authentic edition.