Emma
by J McCombie
Title
Emma
Artist
J McCombie
Medium
Digital Art - Typography
Description
This piece is good for any person - be it a child or an adult - interested in seeing their name in various languages. I have created this version in a format so you can personalize it even more, on whichever product you choose, with your choice of background colour showing through between the translations. If you wish me to create a piece with a particular name or if you have additional or different translations for what is here, drop me a line using the contact button.
The name Emma is presented with its interpretation in 112 languages atop a world map. This list of languages in alphabetical order are as follows: Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bangla, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Cantonese (Traditional), Catalan, Cebuano, Chichewa, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Estonian, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Frisian, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong Daw, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Kiswahili, Korean, Kurdish (Kurmanji), Kyrgyz, Lao, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malagasy, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Maori, Marathi, Mongolian, Myanmar (Burmese), Nepali, Norwegian, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Queretaro Otomi, Romanian, Russian, Samoan, Scots Gaelic, Serbian (Cyrillic), Serbian (Latin), Sesotho, Shona, Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Sudanese, Swahili, Swedish, Tahitian, Tajik, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Tongan, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Yucatec Maya and Zulu. However, the translations are not presented in alphabetical order as are listed here. The Name of the piece is the English version and the final entry is a meaning of the Name.
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January 24th, 2013
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Mahir Abrar
I do not understand why would you write Emma in hindi, tamil, but not urdu or bangla
J McCombie replied:
When I created this piece, Mahir, I included the translations I had available. So, the translation available to me for Urdu at that time is there … and my resources do not include translations for Bangla. I have not included most of the languages which more often than not translate the name into the same as the English version. These language pieces are made with the information I have at hand and cannot be made to reflect every language because the print or script would be so tiny the viewer would not be able to read any translation, especially at the smaller print, greeting card and iphone scales. That is why I usually place a note on each piece as well as in the description of my "Art of Language" Gallery which indicates if you wish a specific phrase, name, translation or certain background information included in your piece ... to drop me a line - that can be done through my e-mail link. ...J.