Google Translate Translates “Pergola” as “Pergola” in Almost Every Language

Why “Mama” and “Papa” Are the Comparison

To give somewhat of an idea of how truly fascinating this phenomenon is, consider this: “papa” and “mama” are studied by specialists of language for their close resemblance to each other and for remaining so much the same over time.

Mama, for example, is: mama, haha, māma, mamá, ma, mamã, maa, and mamī, in the top ten most spoken languages. In some circles of linguists, this is attributed in part to the early babbling of babies but is still considered amazing for the similarities. And yet the orthography of pergola is not only a carbon copy of each other but has also remained identical in almost every language.

The Sound Held, Too, Not Just the Spelling

The unaltered spelling of pergola is not the only fascinating fact. With so many languages, words are inevitably prone to be altered in the pronunciation. The word “business” for example, once rhymed with “dizziness,” having three syllables instead of two. The pronunciation of pergola from language to language is in most cases either identical or very similar.

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Why the Word Held

In almost every language pergola translates as pergola without variation in writing, spelling, hyphenation, emphasis or punctuation. A person could conclude that words like “papa” and “mama” cause people to hold tighter to words that carry a deeper meaning. By design, pergolas have always been happy places for family and communities to draw closer to each other.

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Written in Cyrillic, still spoken as pergola

Bulgarian, Macedonian and Russian are written in the Cyrillic alphabet but are still articulated as pergola:

Where it finally starts to bend

From here, the remaining languages taper to a relatively close resemblance in either spelling, emphasis, punctuation or pronunciation: