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Afrikaans Hallo (hello) pronounced Hu-llo Alibamu (Southeastern Native American) chkma Amharic "tena yistelegn," which is very formal.

You can also say "Selam." Albanian Tungjatjeta (pronounced To-ngyat-yeta)means have a long life, or c'kemi (hi)

A'Leamona Tel ndo (good day), pronounced tehl-neye-doe

Arabic (good morning) pronounced

sabahou e l kheir , (good evening) pronounced

masaou el kheir; note that Kh- is pronounced from the

back of the throat. mArHAbAN-

(Hello) pronouncedMar-ha-ban Other common greetings are Ahalan andMarhaba

American Sign Language (ASL) To say "hello,"squeeze the fingers in your right hand together, touch thetips of your fingers to your forehead, palm facing outward,and move your hand away from your forehead in a sort ofsaluting motion.

Armenian barevorparev

Austrian Grgott(formal, pronouncedgree'assgott)/ Servus (Informal, said See-ahh-vass, not likethe Latin word)

Azerbaijani salam (hello) pronounced Sa-lam Bahamian English hello (formal), hi or heyello

(informal), what you sayin', Bui/Bey? (very informal -slang)

Basque kaixo (pronounced kai-show), egun on(morning; .pronounced egg-un own), gau on (night;

pronounced gow own) Belarusian pryvitanie (pronouncedpree-vee-tun-nie)

Bengali namaskar(In West Bengal, India) Bodo Wai or Oi or Oye Informal saying of hello to

someone. Like wife saying wai to husband. But formallyadd title after wai...e.g, to call sister wai binanao beofwi (meaning: come here sister).

Bremnian koali (pronounced kowalee) Breton - Degemer Mad British Sign Language (BSL) Dominant hand
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wave, from core to outside with the palm facing towardsrecipient as the hand moves bring it into a thumbs upgesture (Formal 'Hello'), Give two thumbs up (InformalLiteral Translation 'well?')

Bulgarian zdravei,zdraveite (to many),zdrasti(informal), Dobro utro (morning), Dobar den (day), Dobarvecher(evening)

Bosnian Hej? (Hey) "Dobar dan" (Good Afternoon)"Cao" (Hi) "Laku noc" (Good night)

Burmese mingalarba Cambodian (Khmer) Sua s'dei (informal),Jum

Reap Sour(formal) good morning,Arun Sua s'dei goodafternoon, Tivea Sua s'dei good evening, Sayoan Sua s'dei

good night, Reatrey Sua s'dei good bye, Lea Hoy(informal),Jum Reap Lea (formal) Cape-Verdean Creole oi, ol, Entao or Bon dia Catalan hola (pronounced o-la), bon dia

(pronounced bon dee-ah) good morning, bona tarda (bonatahr-dah) good afternoon, bona nit(bona neet)good night.

You can also say just bones (bo-nahs) to make it informal. Cayuga (Northern Iroquois) sga-noh Chamorro hafa adai (hello/what's up?), hafa?

(informal), howzzit bro/bran/prim/che'lu? (informal), sup(informal) and all other English greetings Chichewa moni bambo! (to a male), moni mayi!

(to a female), Muribwanji (moori-bwanji) is used often as ageneralized greeting to everyone.

Chubby Shabe Yabebabe Yeshe Chinese In both Cantonese and Mandarin, it is

written as . Cantonese is nei* ho or lei ho (pronouncedne ho or lay ho) and Mandarin is n ho (pronounced, neehow) (remember the tones). In Mandarin you can also say (zo shng ho) for "Good Morning" (pronounced dsaoshung haw). In Taiwan, this is not common and peopleinformally use the shorter (zo, pronounced dsao).

Congolese mambo Cook Islands Maori Kia orana (hello) Cree Tansi (pronounced Tawnsay) Croatian - bok(informal), dobro jutro (morning),

dobar dan (day), dobra veer(evening), laku no(night) Czech dobr rno (until about 8 or 9 a.m.), dobr

den (formal), dobr veer(evening), ahoj (informal;
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pronounced ahoy) Danish hej (informal; pronounced hi), goddag

(formal), godaften (evening; formal), hey, hejsa, hallj(very informal).

Dioula (Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso) in-i-che D'ni shorah (also goodbye or peace) Double Dutch hutch-e-lul-lul-o (hello), gug-o-o-

dud mum-o-rug-nun-i-nun-gug (good morning; formal),gug-o-o-dud a-fuf-tut-e-rug-nun-o-o-nun (good afternoon;formal), gug-o-o-dud e-vuv-e-nun-i-nun-gug (goodevening; formal)

Dutch hoi (very informal), hallo (informal),goedendag (formal)

Dzongkha (Bhutan) kuzu-zangpo Edo (Nigeria) Kyo English - American hello (formal), hi (informal),

hey(informal,)yo (informal) English - England How do you do? (formal), Good

Morning (formal), Good Afternoon (formal), Good Evening(formal) hello (less formal), HowDo? (informal), Watchya(informal),Alright(informal) hi (informal), Hiya (informal)

English - Ireland hello (formal), hi (informal), hey

(informal,)yo (informal), Hiya (informal) English - Scotland hello (formal), hi (informal),hey(informal,)yo (informal), Hiya (informal), howzitgaun(informal, means "Hello, how are you?")

Esperanto saluton (formal), sal (informal) Estonian tere pevast" (good day), Tere

hommikust (morning), Tere htust (evening) Tere/tervist Egyptian Arabic Salaam Alekum (sulam

ulakume) (Goodbye), Ma Salaama (ma sulama) the "U" ispronounced its usual way (Example:up)

Fijian Bula Uro (Informal Hello) and Bula Vinaka(Formal Hello) is pronounced 'Buh-la Vina-kah'

Finnish hyv piv (formal), moi, terve or hei(informal), moro (Tamperensis)

French salut(informal; silent 't'), allo,bonjour(formal, for daytime use; 'n' as a nasal vowel, pronounced"bon-shore"), bonsoir(good evening; 'n' is a nasal vowel),bonne nuit(good night)

Frisian (A Language from northern Netherland, stillspoken by many people) Goeie dei (Formal), Goeie (A
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bit more informal but still correct). Gaelic dia duit(informal; pronounced dee-ah whu-

it; literally "God be with you") Georgian gamardjoba

German - Traditional hallo (informal), Guten Tag(formal; pronounced gootan taag), Tag (very informal;pronounced tahg).

German - Austrian and Bavarian - gr Gott(pronounced gruess got), servus (informal; also means"goodbye"; pronounced zair-voos)

German - Northern moin or moin moin(pronounced moyn), also moinsen

German - Swiss hallo (informal), grezi (formal,

pronounced kind of like grew-tsi), gressech (formal, usedin the Canton of Berne, pronounced grewe-thech) Gibberish huthegelluthego, h-idiguh-el l-idiguh-o

(formal), h-diguh-i (informal), h-idiguh-ow a-diguh-re y-idigah-ou? (meaning "how are you?")

Greek (pronounced YAH-soo; singular togreet a friend, informal), (plural to be polite,formal) (meaning "health to you"), (pronouncedkalee-ME-ra; good morning; formal),

(pronounced ka-LOH a-PO-yevma; good afternoon; formal), (pronounced kalee-SPE-rah; good evening;formal)

Gujarati - Namaste,Namaskar,Kemcho Haida (Queen Elizabeth Island Canada) Kii-te-daas

a Hausa Ina kwaana? (How did you sleep? -

informal) or Ina uni? (how's the day? - informal); Inakwaanan ku? (formal) or Ina unin Ku (formal)

Hawaiian aloha (pronounced ah-low-ha) Hebrew shalom (means "hello", "goodbye" and

"peace"), hi (informal), ma korae? (very informal, literallymeans "whats happening" or "whats up")

Hindi , namaste (nah-mah-STAY) Hopi ha'u (sounds like hah-uh) means "hello" but

it's not used as often as we use it in English. It's moretraditional to greet someone by saying Um waynuma?(you're around?)

Hungarian, Magyar j napot(pronounced yohnaput; daytime; formal), szervusz(pronounced sairvoose;
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informal), szia (pronounced seeya; informal), or even hel,like English hello but a longer "o"

Icelandic gan dag (formal; pronounced gothandahg), h (informal; pronounced hai)

Igbo nde-ewo (pronounced enday aywo), nna-ewo(pronounced enna wo), ke-du (informal, pronounced keh-du).

Indonesian halo (hello), selamat pagi (morning),selamat siang (afternoon), selamat malam (evening)

Irish Dia duit(pronounced "Dee-ah ghwit"; alsomeans "God Be With You")

Islamic Greeting (peace be upon you)pronounced Assalamou Alykoum.

Italian cio (pronounced chow; informal; alsomeans "goodbye"), buon giorno (pronounced bwohngeeornoh; good morning; formal), buon pomeriggio(pronounced bwohn pohmehreejeeoh; good afternoon;formal), buona sera (pronounced bbwoonah sehrah; goodevening; formal)

Japanese ohayoou (gozaimasu)(pronounced o-ha-yo (go-zai-mass); good morning), konnichi ha (pronounced kon-nee-chee-wa; daytime or

afternoon), konbanha (pronounced kon-ban-wa;evening); moshi moshi (pronounced mo-shee mo-shee; when calling/answering the phone); doumo(pronounced doh-moh; informal way of thanking/greeting,but means countless other things as well so only use whencontext makes sense)

Jamaican Patois Yow Wah gwaan (pronouncedwa-gwaan)

Kanien'kha (Mohawk) kwe kwe (pronounced

gway gway) Kannada namaskara Kazakh Salem (hello), Kalay zhagday(How are

you?) Klingon nuqneH? [nook-neck] (literally: "what do

you want?") Konkani Namaskar, Namaskaru (I bow to thee,

formal)', Dev baro dis div(may God bless you with a goodday, informal)

Korean

ahn nyeong ha se yo (formal),

ahn nyeong (informal; can also be used to mean
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"goodbye")(when calling/answering the phone"; yeo-bo-sae-yo (prounounced "yuh-boh-say-yoe")

Kurdish choni, roj bahsh (day; pronounced rohzjbahsh)

Lao sabaidee (pronounced sa-bai-dee) Latin (Classical) salve (pronounced sal-way; when

talking to one person), salvete (pronounced sal-way-tay;when talking to more than one person), ave (pronouncedar-way; when talking to one person; when talking tosomeone respected), avete (pronounced ar-way-tay; whentalking to more than one respected person)

Latvian labdien, sveiki, chau (informal;pronounced chow).

Lingala mbote Lithuanian laba diena (formal), labas, sveikas

(informal; when speaking to a male), sveika (informal;when speaking to a female), sveiki (informal; whenspeaking to more than one person).

Lojban coi Luxembourgish moen (pronounced MOY-en) Slavomacedonian (Zdravo; meaning

Hello), (Dobro utro; meaning Good morning),

(Dobar den; meaning Good day), (Dobro vecher; meaning Good evening) Malayalam namaskkaram Malaysian Selamat datang, which can also mean

welcome (pronounced seh-la-mat dah-tan; the g is silent)or you could say apa khabar, which can also mean "howare you" (pronounced a-pa ka-bar)

Maldivian (Dhivehi) kihineth (meaning "how" -the common way of greeting)

Maltese merba (meaning "welcome"), bonu(morning), bonswa or il-lejl it-tajjeb (evening)

Maori kia ora (kia o ra) (literally "be well/healthy"and is translated as an informal "hi." This term has alsobeen adopted by English speakers in New Zealand), tenakoe, ata marie, morena (good morning)

Marathi namaskar Marshallese iakwe (pronounced YAH kway) Mongolian sain baina uu? (pronounced saa-yen

baya-nu; formal), sain uu? (pronounced say-noo; informal),ugluunii mend (morning; pronounced ohglohny mend),
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udriin mend (afternoon, pronounced ohdriin mend), oroinmend (evening; pronounced or-oh-in mend)

Nahuatl niltze, hao Naokien Atetgrealot(formal), atetel (informal)

Navajo ya'at'eeh (Hello or Good) (pronunciationdependant upon the tribe, or area of the reservation youare on)

Na'vi kaltx (informal) (pronounced kal-T- with anemphasis on the T), Oel ngati kameie (formal)(pronounced o-el nga-ti kamei-e)

Niuean faka lofa lahi atu (formal), fakalofa(informal)

Neapolitan cia, cha

Nepalbhasha Jwajalapa, Nepali namaskar, namaste, k cha (informal),

kasto cha Northern Sami "Buorre beaivi", "Bures" Northern Sotho dumelang Norwegian hei ("hi"), hallo ("hello"), heisann ("hi

there"), god morgen ("good morning"), god dag ("goodday"), god kveld ("good evening").

Oshikwanyama wa uhala po, meme? (to a

female; response is ee), wa uhala po, tate? (to a male;response is ee) nawa tuu? (response is ee; formal),ongaipi? (meaning "how is it?"; informal)

Oromo (Afan Oromo) asham (hi)akkam? (howare you?), nagaa (peace, peace be with you)

Palauan alii (pronounced Ah-Lee) Pirate arrrguh (pronounced are-g-uh with

emphasis on the are, usually with rolled r)Ahoy Matey(pronounced Ah-hoi mate-ey, is usually to another crew

member) Persian salaam or do-rood (salaam is an

abbreviation, the full version being as-salaam-o-aleykumin all Islamic societies)

Pig Latin eyhay(informal), ellohay(formal),atswhay upay? ("what's up?")

Polish dzie dobry(formal), witaj (hello) cze(hi,pronounced, "cheshch")

Portuguese oi, boas, ol or al (informal); bom

dia or bons dias (good morning, good day, used beforenoon or before the noon meal); boa tarde or boas tardes
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(good afternoon, used after noon or after the noon meal,until twilight); boa noite or boas noites (good evening andgood night, used after twilight).

Punjabi sat sri akal

Rajasthani (Marwari) Khamma Ghani sa, RamRam sa Romanian salut, buna dimineata (formal;

morning), buna ziua (formal; daytime), buna seara (formal;evening), buna (usually when speaking to a femalepronounced boo-nah or bu-nah)

Russian Privet! (pronounced as pree-vyet;informal),zdravstvuyte (formal; pronounced ZDRA-stvooy-tyeh)

Samoan - talofa (formal), malo (informal) Scanian haja (universal), hall (informal), go'da

(formal), go'maren (morning), go'aften (evening) Senegal salamaleikum Serbian zdravo, ao (informal), dobro jutro

(morning, pronounced dobro yutro), dobar dan (afternoon),dobro vee (pronounced dobro vetcheah; evening), lakuno(night), do vienja (see you soon)

Sinhala a`yubowan (pronounced au-bo-wan;

meaning "long live")kohomada? (ko-ho-ma-da; meaninghow are you?) Slovak dobr de (formal), ahoj (pronounced

ahoy), au (pronounced chow) and dobr(informalabbreviation)

Slovenian ivjo (informal; pronounced zhivyo),zdravo (informal), dobro jutro (morning), dober dan(afternoon), dober veer(evening; pronounced doh-bearvetch-air)

South African English hoezit(pronouncedhowzit; informal)

Southern Sami "buaregh" Spanish hola (pronounced with a silent 'h': o-la),

alo, qu onda (South America; very informal, like "what'sup"; pronounced keh ondah), qu hay, (South America;very informal), qu pasa (Spain, informal), buenos das("good morning"), buenas tardes (afternoon and earlyevening), buenas noches (late evening and night). Thesethree forms can be made informal by saying "buenas".Also Qu Transa (Mexico; very informal, like "what's up",
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pronounced keh trahansa). Qu tl (meaning "what's up",pronounced kay tal)

Sulka marot(morning; pronounced mah-rote[rolled r and lengthened o], mavlemas (afternoon; v is

pronounced as a fricative b), masegin (evening; g ispronounced as a fricative) Swahili jambo? or hujambo?, which loosely

translates as 'how are you?', are commonly used but youmay also say Habari gani? (What is the news?)

Swedish tja (very informal; pronounced sha), hej(informal; pronounced hey), god dag (formal)

Tagalog (Pilipino - Philippines) Kumusta pokayo? (formal, means "How are you, sir or madam",

pronounced "kuh-muh-stah poh kah-yoh"), Kumusta ka?(informal, means "how are you?", "kuh-muh-stah kah").You can also add na when talking to someone you haven'tsee in a while, Kumusta na po kayo? or Kumusta ka na?.Magandang umaga po (Good morning, pronounced "mah-gan-dang oo-mah-gah poh"), Magandang hapon po (Goodafternoon, "mah-gan-dang ha-pon poh"), Magandang gabi

po (Good evening or night, "mah-gan-dang gah-beh poh"),Magandang tanghali po (good day, literally midday or

noon, "mah-gan-dang tang-ha-leh poh"). NOTE: to makethese informal greetings, droppo from the end and addthe person's first name. Still, some people use words likemare orpare (very informal greeting, mare (pronounced"mah-reh") for a close female friend;pare (pronounced"pah-reh") for a close male friend). You may add it eitherbefore or after the greeting. Example, Mare, kumusta kana? or Kumusta ka na, pare?

Tahitian ia orana Taiwanese (Hokkien) Li-ho Tamil vanakkam Telugu namaskaram, baagunnara (means "how

are you?"; formal) Tetum (Timor-Leste) bondia (morning), botarde

(afternoon), bonite (evening) Thai sawa dee-ka (said by a female), sawa dee-

krap (said by a male) Tibetan - Lhasa Dialect Tashi delek Tibetan - Amdo Dialect Cho demo Tigrinya (Ethiopia and Eritrea) selam (peace be
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with you); Haderkum (Good morning); T'ena yehabeley(May good health be upon you)

Tongan malo e lelei Tshiluba moyo

Tsonga (South Africa) minjhani (when greetingadults), kunjhani (when greeting your peer group or yourjuniors)

Turkish merhaba (formal), selam (Informal) Ukrainian dobriy ranok(formal; morning), dobriy

den (formal; afternoon), dobriy vechir(formal; evening),pryvit(informal)

UzbekAssalomu Alaykum (Formal)Salom(Informal) YM

Ung Tongue Hello (This is a made-up language,like Pig latin. In it 'hello' is pronounced Hung-ee-lung-lung-oh.)

Urdu - adaab or salam or as salam alei kum (the fullform, to which the reply would be waa lay kum assalaamin most cases)

Vietnamese xin cho (pronounced sin CHOW) Welsh shwmae (South Wales; pronounced "shoe-

my"), "Sut Mae" North Wales (pronounced "sit my"), or

S'mae (pronounced "S' my"), or simply Helo Yiddish sholem aleikhem (literally "may peace beunto you"), borokhim aboyem or gut morgn (morning),gutn ovnt(evening), gutn tog (day), gut shabbos (onlyused on the Sabbath)

Yoruba E kaaro (Good morning), E kaasan (Goodafternoon), E kaaale (Good evening,) O da aaro (goodnight)

Zulu sawubona for one person, sanibonani formultiple people. Sawubona translates to mean 'we see you' andyou should respond by sayingyebo, meaning 'yes
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