The Languages of Fermilab

To get a better sense of the nationalities represented in modern physics experiments, FermiNews recently conducted a thoroughly unscientific and completely unofficial survey of the laboratory's two largest collaborations, CDF and DZero. We asked the collaborators to tell us by email what languages they speak. We figured that the languages that turned up would give us a pretty good idea of the diversity of the experimenters' nationalities. So far, we have compiled a list of 63 different languages.

If you are a Fermilab experimenter and you speak a language that isn't listed, we would very much like to hear from you. Send us an email at ferminews@fnal.gov with your name, your experiment, and the languages you speak. We'll keep an updated tally on this webpage.

CDF Assyrian Belorussian Bengali Cantonese Catalan Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Finnish Flemish French Gaelic German Georgian Greek Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Italian Japanese Korean Leccese Luxembourgish Mandarin Marathi Persian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Serbian Slovak Spanish Swedish Tagalog Taiwanese Turkish Urdu

DZero Afrikaans Arabic Armenian Assyrian Bangla Bengali Cantonese Croatian Chinese Czech Danish Dutch English French Georgian German Greek Gujarati Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Indonesian Italian Japanese Kannada Korean Latvian Limburgs Malayalam Mandarin Marathi Megrelian Polish Portuguese Punjabi Russian Romanian Serbian Spanish Swedish Tamil The Queen's English Tulugu Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Vietnamese Welsh Wolof

Theoretical Astrophysics Group

American Sign Language