Bureaucratese
Translations of "bureaucratese" (9 languages)
| Language | Translation | Romanization | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bulgarian | канцеларски стил(pejorative term for language typically used by bureaucrats) | kancelarski stil | |
| Chinese Mandarin | 官腔(pejorative term for language typically used by bureaucrats), 官話 /官话(pejorative term for language typically used by bureaucrats) | guānqiāng, guānhuà | |
| Finnish | (viranomaisten) kapulakieli(pejorative term for language typically used by bureaucrats), kapulakieli(pejorative term for language resembling that used by bureaucrats) | — | |
| French | baratin(pejorative term for language resembling that used by bureaucrats), charabia(pejorative term for language resembling that used by bureaucrats), langue de bois(pejorative term for language typically used by bureaucrats) | — | |
| German | Amtsdeutsch(pejorative term for language typically used by bureaucrats), Amtsdeutsch(pejorative term for language resembling that used by bureaucrats), Beamtendeutsch(pejorative term for language typically used by bureaucrats), Beamtendeutsch(pejorative term for language resembling that used by bureaucrats), Behördendeutsch(pejorative term for language typically used by bureaucrats), Behördensprache(pejorative term for language typically used by bureaucrats), Behördensprache(pejorative term for language resembling that used by bureaucrats), Bürokratensprache(pejorative term for language typically used by bureaucrats), Kanzleistil(pejorative term for language resembling that used by bureaucrats), Papierdeutsch(pejorative term for language resembling that used by bureaucrats), Verwaltungsjargon(pejorative term for language typically used by bureaucrats) | — | |
| Italian | burocratese(pejorative term for language typically used by bureaucrats) | — | |
| Russian | канцеляри́т(pejorative term for language typically used by bureaucrats) | kanceljarít | |
| Swedish | kanslisvenska(pejorative term for language typically used by bureaucrats) | — | |
| Ukrainian | канцеля́рська мо́ва(pejorative term for language typically used by bureaucrats), канцеля́рська мо́ва(pejorative term for language resembling that used by bureaucrats) | kanceljársʹka móva, kanceljársʹka móva |
(viranomaisten) kapulakieli, kapulakieli
baratin, charabia, langue de bois
Amtsdeutsch, Amtsdeutsch, Beamtendeutsch, Beamtendeutsch, Behördendeutsch, Behördensprache, Behördensprache, Bürokratensprache, Kanzleistil, Papierdeutsch, Verwaltungsjargon
burocratese
kanslisvenska
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.