illiteracy

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• /ɪˈlɪtəɹəsi/
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• /ɪˈlɪt͡ʃɹəsi/
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From il- + literacy.

50 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: أُمِّيَّة (ʔummiyya) — inability to read and write
• Bulgarian: неграмотност (negramotnost) — inability to read and write
• Catalan: analfabetisme — inability to read and write
• Eastern Min Chinese: 青盲牛 (chăng-màng-ngù) — inability to read and write
• Chinese Mandarin: 文盲 (wénmáng) — inability to read and write
• Chukchi: айгоԓяткэгыргын (ajgoḷjatkėgyrgyn) — inability to read and write
• Cornish: anlettryseth — inability to read and write
• Czech: negramotnost — inability to read and write
• Danish: analfabetisme — inability to read and write
• Dutch: analfabetisme — inability to read and write
• Esperanto: analfabeteco — inability to read and write
• Faroese: ólesi — inability to read and write
• Finnish: lukutaidottomuus — inability to read and write
• French: analphabétisme — inability to read and write
• French: illettrisme — inability to read and write
• French: illittérature — inability to read and write
• Galician: analfabetismo — inability to read and write
• Georgian: წერა-კითხვის უცოდინრობა (c̣era-ḳitxvis ucodinroba) — inability to read and write
• German: Analphabetismus — inability to read and write
• Hindi: निरक्षरता (nirakṣartā) — inability to read and write
• Hungarian: írástudatlanság — inability to read and write
• Hungarian: analfabetizmus — inability to read and write
• Indonesian: buta aksara — inability to read and write
• Irish: neamhlitearthacht — inability to read and write
• Italian: analfabetismo — inability to read and write
• Japanese: 非識字 (hi-shikiji) — inability to read and write
• Japanese: 文盲 (mon'mō) — inability to read and write
• Kazakh: сауатсыздық (sauatsyzdyq) — inability to read and write
• Central Kurdish: نەخوێندەواری (nexwêndewarî) — inability to read and write
• Northern Kurdish: nexwendewarî — inability to read and write
• Lao: ຄວາມບໍ່ຮູ້ຫນັງສື (khuām bǭ hū nang sư̄) — inability to read and write
• Latin: analphabētismus — inability to read and write
• Macedonian: неписменост (nepismenost) — inability to read and write
• Norwegian Bokmål: analfabetisme — inability to read and write
• Norwegian Nynorsk: analfabetisme — inability to read and write
• Polish: analfabetyzm — inability to read and write
• Polish: niepiśmienność — inability to read and write
• Portuguese: analfabetismo — inability to read and write
• Portuguese: iliteracia — inability to read and write
• Russian: негра́мотность (negrámotnostʹ) — inability to read and write
• Russian: безгра́мотность (bezgrámotnostʹ) — inability to read and write
• Serbo-Croatian: неписменост — inability to read and write
• Serbo-Croatian: nepismenost — inability to read and write
• Spanish: analfabetismo — inability to read and write
• Spanish: agrafia — inability to read and write
• Spanish: agrafía — inability to read and write
• Swedish: analfabetism — inability to read and write
• Tagalog: dikanulatan — inability to read and write
• Tagalog: kamaangan — inability to read and write
• Telugu: నిరక్షరాస్యత (nirakṣarāsyata) — inability to read and write