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Alternative spellings
Pangea Primary spelling in American English

Pronunciation
IPAchar|p�nj�'�, /pæn�d�i��/, /<tt>p{n"dZi:@</tt>/

Etymology
Latin Pangaea from Greek Παγγαία (pangaía), from �άν (pán) "all" + �α�α (gaia) "earth"; coined by w:Alfred Wegener|Alfred Wegener in 1915.

Hyphenation
pan·gae·a

Proper noun
en-proper noun

1. A supercontinent that included all the landmasses of the earth before the Triassic Period and that broke up into Laurasia and Gondwana.

Translations
trans-top|supercontinent prior to Triassic
Arabic: ARchar|با�ج�ا� (banjíya) f
Bulgarian: �анге� (Pangeya) f
Catalan: Pangea f
Chinese: ��大� (Páng� dàlù)
Czech: Pangea f
Danish: Pangæa
Dutch: Pangaea f, Pangea f (popularly written)
Esperanto: Pangeo
French: Pangée f
German: Pangäa f
Greek: Παγγαία (Pangaía) f
Hebrew: פנ���� (Pangía) f
Italian: Pangea f
Japanese: ����大� (Pangea-tairikú)
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Korean: ��� �� (Pangea daeryuk)
Latin: Pangaea f
Letzeburgesh: Pangäa
Lithuanian: Pang�ja
Persian: FAchar|پا�ج��آ (Panj��)
Polish: Pangea f
Portuguese: Pangéia f
Russian: �анге� (Pangéja) f
Slovak: Pangea f
Slovene: Pangea f
Spanish: Pangea f
Swedish: Pangea
Vietnamese: Pangaea
Walloon: Pandjêye
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See also
Gondwanaland, Gondwana
Laurasia
Rodinia

Category:Greek derivations

el:Pangaea

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