Do countries that speak Arabic, Khmer, and Chinese use the Latin names with the Latin alphabet when talking about biology? Do they insert these into their language despite the different alphabet? 2601:644:907E:A70:5020:3050:C038:F1A3 (talk) 18:44, 26 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It is more appropriate to call these names binomial or scientific names because that makes it clear that these are internationally agreed and accepted names that are not restricted to any particular language. Another clue can be obtained by checking articles on some species in other wikipedias. Here are the equivalents to Human in Chinese, Khmer, Farsi and Arabic. All have scientific names (for various taxonomic levels) sprinkled in the text, indicating that it is quite common not to transcribe (or transliterate?) those names (I cannot exclude, however, that they give the Latin script in addition to a transcription). --Wrongfilter (talk) 19:15, 26 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

As above and as the article indicates they are pretty universal. That someone might call them "Latin" names shows they are as "foreign" to English speakers as to speakers of other languages. And they are respectful of other countries' scientific endeavours in that names are based on first discovery of the species. So there's e.g. Zhuchengtyrannus named after Zhucheng, a place in China. --2A04:4A43:909F:F990:55A5:C8A2:87C3:73CF (talk) 00:27, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

ar:أيل الماء and zh:獐 both include the text Hydropotes inermis when talking about the water deer. Can't cite a Khmer article, since the Khmer Wikipedia is rather small, and it's hard to find articles about any specific subject in a completely alien language. Nyttend (talk) 05:37, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A few examples of pages on the Khmer Wikipedia with binomial names in the Latin alphabet: កណ្ដុរ, គោព្រៃ, ទន្សោង, កន្ថឹក, ស្វាកន្ទុយស.  --Lambiam 10:03, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]