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Here’s today’s date in over 250 languages. I’m favoring those that are at least a bit off the beaten track, and/or have names for the months that depart substantially from your run-of-the-mill neo-Roman. Accordingly you won’t find French, Chinese, or Greek, say, but rather Picard, Manipuri, and Pontic. (Cool looking numerals are, naturally, an added plus.)

Sliding your mouse over each language’s name will reveal its pedigree. Brown terms in parentheses ( ) are alternate names for them, while those in brackets [ ] specify a particular subdivision or dialect shown.

For those languages that expired before the advent of modern place-value numerals I’m using Roman. For Etruscan I’m using Etruscan numerals (basically Roman except that they used a lambda for 5) while pretending that those serene, elbow-lounging folks used the Gregorian calendar and reckoned dates sequentially as we do. Traditional Chuvash numerals follow a similar scheme, but with the smaller units to the left of the larger ones, a slash for 5, and a star for 1000. Mokshan resembles Chavash but uses that lambda for 10 and a kind of reflected sawhorse for 1000.

The only non-Gregorian date I’m showing is an estimate for the Gaulish, whose calendar was offset by about half a month from that used by their Roman contemporaries and whose months alternated between 29 and 30 days as opposed to 30 and 31.

For the sake of uniformity the program writes everything out in the continental fashion of date, month name, and year. (Classical Latin, a special case at least by modern standards, is here.) It’s likely some languages might require inflectional modifications on the month names or other refinements, so just let me know and I’ll incorporate them.

Peter

In Abaza it is 12 гӀапынхъамыз (ɂapənqaməz) 2010
In Abkhaz it is 12 хәажәкыр (hãažãkyr) 2010
In Afar it is 12 Ciggilta Kudo 2010
In Agul it is 12 суьл варз (sul varz) 2010

In Ahom it is

(din sam)

2010

In Ainu it is 12 ハプラプチユㇷ゚ (haprapčup) 2010
In Akan it is 12 Ebɔw-Ɔbenem 2010
In Alabama it is 12 hasiholtina istatótchìina 2010
In Albanian it is 12 mars 2010
In Amharic it is 12 mäggabit 2010
In Apatani (Tanii) it is 12 myoko piilo 2010

In Arabic [Levantine] it is

آذار (āðar)

In Arabic [Libyan] it is

الربيع (al rabī)

In Aragonese it is 12 marzo 2010
In Aromanian it is 12 martsu 2010
In Asturian (Bable) it is 12 marzu 2010
In Atikamekw it is 12 nikikw pisimw 2010
In Aymara it is 12 chuqa 2010

In Bambara it is 12 Marsi 2010
In Bariai it is 12 amarere 2010
In Bashkir it is 12 Буранай (Buranai) 2010
In Basque it is 12 martxo 2010
In Batak it is 12 sipaha hurung 2010
In Bats (Tsova-Tush) it is 12 mart 2010
In Bena it is 12 pa mwedzi gwa wudatu 2010
In Blackfoot (Siksika) it is 12 sa’aiki’somm 2010
In Blin it is 12 kbla 2010
In Breton (Armoric) it is 12 Mis Meurzh 2010

In Bukhari (Judaeo-Tajik) it is

(mart)

2010

In Bulgar it is XII nauruz MMX

In Burmese it is

ma‘

In Carrier [Stuart-Trembleur Lake] it is 12 tɕ07ztɕo uzʔ 2010
In Catalan it is 12 març 2010

In Cham [Eastern] it is

kluw

In Chamorro it is 12 marcha 2010
In Chechen it is 12 ибне (ybne) 2010

In Cherokee it is

(Anayilisv)

2010

In Cheyenne it is 12 Ponoma’a’êhaseneeše’he 2010
In Chippewa (Anishinaabe) it is 12 onaabani giizis 2010

In Chuvash it is

IIX

puš

In Circassian (Adyghe) it is 12 гъатхэпэ (gatkhepe) 2010
In Clackamas (Wasco-Wishram) it is 12 witcala’myxun 2010
In Comorian [Shimaore] it is 12 marsi 2010
In Cornish it is 12 mys Merth 2010
In Corsican it is 12 marzu 2010
In Cree it is 12 migisupizum 2010
In Creek it is 12 tasahcucee 2010
In Crimean Tatar it is 12 saban ayı 2010
In Cuman it is 12 ilyaz ay 2010

In Dagaare it is 12 MyuuraatasobO 2010
In Denaakk’e (Koyukon) it is 12 Yeggets’e Nen’ Loyet 2010

In Dhivehi (Maldivian) it is

(māč)

2010

In Dinka [Northwestern] it is 12 aduoŋ 2010
In Dogrib it is 12 Det’ôtso Zaà 2010

In Dzongkha (Bhutanese) it is

(spyi.zlaw.gsum.pa)

2010

In Edo it is 12 uki egbo 2010
In Emiliano-Romagnolo [Bolognese] it is 12 mèrz 2010
In Erzyan it is 12 kolmotsekov 2010
In Eskayan it is 12 maso 2010
In Estonian it is 12 paastukuu 2010

In Etruscan it is

XII (“zalshar”)

(velcitna)

In Even it is 12 ėvri ječėn 2010
In Ewe it is 12 Tedoxe 2010
In Extremaduran it is 12 marçu 2010

In Fe’fe’ it is 12 mbakngofat 2010
In Foochow (Fuzhou) it is 12 dâ̤ săng nguŏk 2010
In Franco-Provençal [Stéphenois] it is 12 mâ 2010
In Franco-Provençal [Savoyard] it is 12 mârs 2010
In Frankish it is XII Lenzimanoþ MMX
In Frisian [Schiermonnikoog] it is 12 Feurjiersmond 2010
In Frisian [West Lauwer] it is 12 Foarjiersmoanne 2010
In Friulian it is 12 març 2010
In Futunan it is 12 malesio 2010

In Ga it is 12 Ochokrikri 2010
In Gaelic [Irish] it is 12 Mí Márta 2010
In Gaelic [Scottish] it is 12 Am Màrt 2010
In Gagauz it is 12 Baba marta 2010
In Gallo it is 12 martz 2010
In Gallong [Lare] it is 12 lumái 2010
In Garifuna it is 12 ürüwa hati 2010
In Gaulish it is approximately XXIIII rivri MMX

In Georgian it is

(mart’i)

2010

In Georgian [Old] it is

igrik’isay

In Gothic it is

XII

(Austramenoþs)

MMX

In Griko it is 12 marti 2010
In Guaraní it is 12 jasyapy 2010
In Guernésiais it is 12 mar 2010
In Guhu-Samane it is 12 Maasi 2010
In Gwich’in it is 12 Ch’izhin Zhrii 2010

In Haitian Creole it is 12 mas 2010
In Haida it is 12 Xitgáas Kungáay 2010
In Hakka it is 12 sam ŋiet 2010
In Harari it is 12 shíshtí-khá warhay 2010

In Hiligaynon (Ilonggo) it is

(dagangbulan)

2010

In Hmong it is 12 Peb hlis ntuj 2010
In Hungarian [Reform Era] it is 12 Tavaszelő 2010

In Igbo it is 12 ónwa áto n’áfò 2010
In Ingush it is 12 ğalğay-marxy butt 2010

In Inuktitut it is

(natsialiut)

2010

In Inupiaq [North Slope] it is 12 paniqsiqsiivik 2010
In Istriot [Rovignese] it is 12 màrso 2010

In Jèrriais it is 12 mâr 2010
In Jju it is 12 Hywan Atat 2010

In Kabyle (Taqbaylit) it is 12 Meɣres 2010
In Kainji [Piti-Atsam] it is 12 pen atat 2010
In Kalapuya it is 12 Atcha-uyu 2010
In Kalmyk it is 12 moġa 2010
In Karelian it is 12 kevätkuu 2010

In Karen [Sgaw] it is

In Kashubian it is 12 strëmiannik 2010
In Kazakh it is 12 Наурыз (naurız) 2010
In Keresan it is 12 Shch’ami daawaatra 2010
In Khakas [Koybal] it is 12 kâñ 2010
In Khakas [Sagay] it is 12 ulugh körîk ayï 2010
In Khasi it is 12 Lyber 2010

In Khmer (Cambodian) it is

meeneea

In Khowar it is 12 aliyan 2010
In Kiribati it is 12 Maati 2010
In Komi it is 12 рака (raka) 2010
In Kumeyaay (Southern Diegueño) it is 12 halakwol 2010
In Kurdish [Sorani] it is 12 نەورۆز (newroz) 2010
In Kyrgyz it is 12 Calğan Kuran 2010

In Ladin it is 12 merz 2010
In Ladino (Judaeo-Spanish) it is 12 מארסו (marso) 2010
In Lango it is 12 Kʉkeenda 2010

In Lao it is

deuan meena

In Laz it is 12 marthi 2010
In Lezgian it is 12 ибне (ibne) 2010
In Ligurian it is 12 marsu 2010
In Limburgish it is 12 Miert 2010
In Lingala it is 12 sánzá ya mísáto 2010
In Livonian it is 12 kievádkú 2010
In Lombard (Insubric) [Western] it is 12 marz 2010
In Luo it is 12 Dwe mar adek 2010
In Luxembourgish it is 12 Lenzmount 2010

In Maasai it is 12 oeníoiŋok 2010
In Malecite-Passamaquoddy it is 12 siqoni-kisuhs 2010

In Manchu it is

(ilan biya)

In Manipuri it is

(inga)

In Manx it is 12 Mayrnt 2010
In Mapudungun it is 12 Glor-cújen 2010
In Mari [Meadow] it is 12 ӱйарнятылзе (üyarnyatylze) 2010
In Maori it is 12 Poutū te rangi 2010
In Menominee it is 12 Wanäëw-kësoq 2010
In Micmac it is 12 Si’ko’ku’s 2010
In Mirandese it is 12 márcio 2010
In Mizo (Lushai) it is 12 vau thla 2010
In Mohawk it is 12 Ennisko:wa 2010

In Mokshan it is

IIΛ

martkov

In Monégasque it is 12 marsu 2010

In Mongolian it is

guravdugaar sar

In Nāhuatl it is 12 tlayeti 2010
In Nakhi (Naxi) it is 12 salwa 2010
In Nàmá (Khoekhoe) it is 12 !hoaǂgais 2010
In Ndebele it is 12 Ntakana 2010
In Neapolitan it is 12 marz 2010
In Nenets it is 12 sye nits’ yriy 2010
In Nganasan it is 12 señi 2010
In Nisga’a it is 12 Xsaak 2010
In Nivkh (Gilyak) it is 12 chrad long 2010

In Occitan [Aranese] it is 12 març 2010
In Occitan [Provençal] it is 12 mars 2010
In Old Church Hungarian it is 12 Böjt második hava 2010
In Old Church Romanian it is 12 mărţişor 2010

In Old Church Slavonic it is

(mart)

In Old Dutch it is

XII

(Lentemaand)

MMX

In Old English it is

XII

(Hrēþmōnað)

MMX

In Old High German it is XII Lenzinmānōd MMX
In Old Japanese it is 12 弥生 (yayoi) 2010
In Old Macedonian it is 12 tsutar 2010
In Oromo it is 12 bitooteessa 2010
In Ossetian [Digor] it is 12 marti 2010
In Ossetian [Iron] it is 12 tærgæytti mæy 2010
In Ös (Chulym) it is 12 kučugen ai 2010

In Papago (O’odham) it is 12 Chehthagi Mashath 2010
In Pashto [Eastern] it is 12 rumbey chor 2010
In Pennsylvania “Dutch” it is 12 Marz 2010
In Picard it is 12 mars 2010
In Picard [Medieval] it is XII march MMX
In Piedmontese it is 12 mars 2010
In Pitcairn-Norfolk it is 12 Maach 2010
In Plautdietsch it is 12 Moaz 2010
In Poitevin-Saintongeais it is 12 mar 2010
In Pökoot it is 12 Pokokwo 2010
In Polabian it is 12 zürmôn 2010
In Pontic it is 12 Μάρ’τς (Marts) 2010
In Proto-Germanic it is XII Lenþamenoþ MMX
In Prussian it is 12 Pūlis 2010

In Qiang [Horpa or Ergong] it is 12 ɦɛ səm pa 2010
In Qiang [Máwō] it is 12 khsiʂ 2010
In Qiang [Taoping] it is 12 tshi⁵⁵ʂı³³ 2010
In Quechua it is 12 pawqar waray killa 2010

In Rapa Nui it is 12 Vahine 2010
In Rennell-Bellona (Rennellese) it is 12 maose 2010
In Ripuarian it is 12 Määz 2010
In Rohingya it is 12 Zer 2010
In Romansh [Standard] it is 12 mars 2010
In Romansh [Puter] it is 12 marz 2010
In Romani (“Gypsy”) it is 12 Kirdaré 2010
In Rotokas it is 12 vo pevapa kekira 2010
In Rukiga it is 12 Okwakashatu 2010
In Ruthenian (Carpatho-Rusyn) it is 12 марец (marets) 2010

In Salish [North Straits] it is 12 wəx̣əs 2010
In Salish [Klallam] it is 12 waʔxwəxɬcítəŋ̕ 2010
In Sami (“Lapp”) [Northern] it is 12 njukčamánu 2010
In Sami (“Lapp”) [Skolt] it is 12 pâ’zzlâšttammannu 2010
In Sami (“Lapp”) [Southern] it is 12 njoktjen 2010
In Samogitian it is 12 kuovs 2010
In Sango it is 12 mbängü 2010

In Sanskrit it is

(tṛtīyamāsa)

In Saramaccan it is 12 gaánlíba 2010
In Sardinian it is 12 màltu 2010
In Sercquiais (Sarkese) it is 12 mar 2010
In Seri it is 12 cayajáacoj 2010
In Sicilian it is 12 màrzu 2010
In Silesian it is 12 mařec 2010
In Slovene it is 12 sušec 2010
In Somali it is 12 bisha saddexaad 2010
In Sorbian (Wend) [Lower] it is 12 pózymski 2010
In Sorbian (Wend) [Upper] it is 12 nalĕtnik 2010
In Sotho it is 12 Hlakubele 2010
In Sotho [Northern] it is 12 Pherekgong 2010

In South Arabian [Himyarite] it is

XII

(ðū ma‘un)

MMX

In Southern Min (Bân-lâm-gú) it is 12 sa.gay 2010
In Sudovian (Yotvingian) it is 12 Martis 2010

In Syriac Aramaic it is

ādār

In Tachelhit it is

(mars)

2010

In Tamil it is

(mārč)

In Tatar [Kazan] it is 12 Mart 2010

In Telugu it is

In Tetum (Tetun) it is 12 marsu 2010

In Thai it is

(miinakhom)

In Tibetan [Dégé] it is

da¹³wa⁵³suŋ⁵⁵ba⁵³

In Tigrinya it is

(megabit)

In Tlingit it is 12 Héentáanáx Kayaan’i Dís 2010
In Tongan it is 12 Ma’asi 2010
In Tsonga it is 12 Nyenyankulu 2010
In Tswana it is 12 Mopitlwe 2010

In Tuareg [Tamasheq] it is

(mars)

2010

In Tumbuka it is 12 Marichi 2010
In Turkish it is 12 mart or kuzu ayı or dol tökümü 2010
In Turkmen [Pre-Niyazov] it is 12 Mart 2010
In Turkmen [Post-Niyazov] it is 12 Nowruz 2010
In Turkmen [Post-Post-Niyazov] it is 12 Mart 2010
In Tyap it is 12 Zwat Tsat 2010
In Tzotzil it is 12 marso 2010

In Uab Meto it is 12 fun-tenu’ 2010
In Ubykh it is 12 psəbəʁʷ 2010
In Ukrainian it is 12 березень (berezen') 2010
In Unami (Lenape) it is 12 xamokhwite kishux 2010
In Upland Yuman [Havasupai] it is 12 Mu thaw gyo 2010
In Uyghur it is 12 üchinchi ay 2010

In Vai it is 12 vɔɔ 2010
In Venda it is 12 Ṱhafamuhwe 2010
In Venetan it is 12 marso 2010
In Veps it is 12 kevä 2010
In Vietnamese it is 12 tháng ba 2010
In Võro it is 12 urbõkuu 2010
In Vosgien [La Bresse] it is 12 mars 2010
In Vosgien [La Haye] it is 12 mars 2010
In Vosgien [Ville sur Illon] it is 12 mars 2010

In Walloon it is 12 måss 2010

In Wáray-Wáray it is

(karayapanhon)

2010

In Welsh (Cymric) it is 12 Mawrth 2010
In Wolof it is 12 gamou 2010
In Wymysorys (Wilamowicean) it is 12 Mieca 2010

In Xhosa it is 12 uKwindla 2010

In Yakut (Sakha) it is 12 kolun tutar 2010
In Yuchi it is 12 Wadasine 2010
In Yupi’k [Central Alaskan] it is 12 Kepnerciq 2010
In Yupik [St. Lawrence Island] it is 12 Teghiglugsiq 2010

In Zarma (Dyerma) it is 12 gani 2010
In Zazaki it is 12 adare 2010
In Zhuang it is 12 nin sam 2010
In Zulu it is 12 uNdasa 2010

Special thanks to: Can Dai Quang (Cham), Ansuharijaz (Frankish and Proto-Germanic reconstructions), George Saliba (Himyarite South Arabian for Jan-Apr and Sep-Dec), Qinglian Zhao (Naxi), and Le Projet Babel (Vosgien)

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