[magicsmoke]

Astronaut: English

Cosmonaut: Russian

Taikonaut: Chinese

Spationaut: French

Vyomanaut: Indian

Based on their entries on wikitionary it looks like most phonetically written languages are able to express all these terms. Whether they commonly use them is a different question. From a cursory glance most of these are European languages such as English, German, French, etc. Languages like Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Vietnamese, Thai, will use a term that's semantically correct but doesn't try to imitate phonetically.

I'll go out on a limb and say this bullshit gives English a small bonus in being a global franca lingua (if you discount historical factors). It would be hard to communicate and discuss foreign ideas and words when you can't even express them concisely in your own language.

Insert comments about programming languages and their pros/cons here for hacker news flavor.

[fuzzfactor]

In Italian they sometimes use an English term: Specimen ;)