Words for Stuttering from Around the World

Although there are many different words for stuttering all around the world, stuttering is a universal disorder. Below are the flags of countries of people who have who have used the Internet to find information about stuttering and have found the Stuttering Home Page since October 15, 2014.

The following words for stuttering is from a list collected by Richard Kitchens and Van Riper's The Nature of Stuttering, 1982, p.4 with additions/corrections by Gustaf Liljegren, Marc Maes, Atila Akay, Cecelia, Sim Hyun-Sub, Jonathan Bishop, Katie Zaman, Benny Ravid, George Petrentzev, Lou Heite, Manuel Rubin, Francisco Javier Sangorrin Garcia, Anita Makri, P.P. Kini, Erki Suurjaak, Stefan Wessels, Jesus Chavez, Leela Ahmed, J Ponjit, Taiwo Adeoye, Dr. Firouzi, Isabel O'Leary, Smilja Majevic, Alice Smith, Adele Ghamedei, Emma Shah, Smilja Majevic, Katarzyna Węsierska, Luigi Long, Hana Laciková, Selma

• The Collins German to English online dictionary has several audio links to words for stutter/stammer in several different languages (about half-way down the page).

EUROPEAN

• Albanian: belbëzimi
• Danish: stammen
• Dutch: stotteren
• Finnish: ankyttaa
• French: begaiement (when speaking about the disorder), begue (person who stutters)
• Norweigan: stamming
• Swedish: stamning
• Spanish: "tartamudez" (when speaking about the disorder) or "tartamudeo" (when speaking about a single block). The verb "to stutter" is "tartamudear." In "Galician," spoken in northern Spain, the noun for stuttering is "tatexo" and the verb "to stutter" is "tatexar." In Cataluua (North-east of Spain) "stuttering" is "caqueig," and the person who stutter is called "quec"
• Estonian: kogelemine (stuttering), kogelema (to stutter) and kogeleja (stutterer)
• Czech: koktani
• Russian: zaikatsia; zaikanie
• German: stottern
• European Portuguese: gaguez
• Italian: balbuzie
• Latvian: stostisanas
• Hungarian: dadogo
• Esperanto: babuti
• Yugoslavia (Slovenic): jeclijati
• Bulgaria: zaekvane (n. stutterer) zaekvam (v. stuttering)
• Croatia: mucanje
• Iceland: stama
• Greek/Greek Cypriot - "travlisma" (stutter); "travlizo" (I stutter)
• Serbia: mucanje
• Slovenia: jecljati
• Slovak: zajakavos' - Stuttering, zajakavý, osoba so zajakavos'ou - person who stutters
• Polish: jąkanie

EASTERN

• India, where many languages are spoken:
  • English: Stammering/Stuttering
  • Hindi: Hakalaanaa
  • Marathi: Totarepanaa
  • Konkani: Tadasuche
  • Kannada: Tadavarisudu
  • Tulu: Godde
  • Tamil: Konnay/Thikku Vai
  • Malayalam: Vickal
  • Sanskrit: Jivha Jarata
  • Bangali: Totalaano
  • Oriya: Khana
  • Punjabi: Totalaanaa
• Persian: locknatezaban or LOKNA`T'
  (in IRAN, Persian is 100% first spoken language; in Afghanistan it is the first spoken language, and it is also spoken In central Asian Countries like Tajikistan , Turkmenistan , Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan)
• Turkish: kekeme - the person who stutters
  kekelemek - the verb stutter
• Arabic: yutamtem; rattat; Al-ta'ta'a
• Cambodian (Khmer language): niyiey drawdut (the 'u' is a schwa sound)
• Chinese (Cantonese): hau hick; kong'-tak-lak-kak
• Chinese (Mandarin): kou chi, as written in Pinyin, the official romanized alphabet for transcribing Chinese. ("Kou" rhymes with "hoe" and "chi" rhymes with "her")
• Hebrew: gimgum
• Hindustani: larbaraha
• Vietnamese: su noi lap
• Japanese: domori; kitsuon
• Tagalog: patalutal
• Korean: maldeodum
• Bangladesh: totla
• Dhivehi (spoken in Maldives which is a group of islands in the Indian Ocean): aagathun
• Thailand: Tid Ang
• Mirpuri (a version of Punjabi spoken by many of the immigrant population from Pakistan who are living in Sheffield UK): tata (with dentalised t)

AFRICAN

• Kiswahili: Kikugumizi
• Xhosa: ukuthititha
• Nigeria (Ibo): nsu
• Somali: wuu haghaglayya or hag hago
• Egyptian: tuhuhtuhuh; nit-nit
• Ghana (Twi): howdodo
• Shangaan: manghanghamela
• Lugnada: okukunanaagira
• Ga: haamuala
• Zula: Amalimi
• Afrikaans (spoken in South Africa - related to Dutch and Flemish) to stutter is to "hakkel" or "stotter" - "hakkel" is a lot more common.
• The Yoruba people of Western Nigeria refer to stuttering as KALOLO
• Shona: (spoken by some people in Zimbabwe): kundandamma

SOUTH AMERICA

• Brasilian Portuguese: gagueira

NORTH and CENTRAL AMERICA

• United States: stuttering
• Native American:
  
  • Salish: sutsuts
  • Tlahoose: ha'ak'ok
  • Chocktaw: isunash illi
  • Dakota: eye-hda-sna-sna
  • Cherokee: a-da-nv-te-hi-lo-squi
  • Nanaimo: skeykulskwels
  • Haida: kilekwigu'ung
  • Asage: the'-ce u-ba-ci-ge
  • Eskimo: iptogetok
  • Acoma people, New Mexico (Keresan language): tunu tunu kadz'i
• Cuba: a person who stutters is called "Gago."

PACIFIC

• British Isles: stammering
• Fiji: kaka
• Hawaiian: uu uus
• Mau Mau: kuhindahinda