“Hello” is a common greeting
widely prevalent across the world. In one of my blog I had compiled about How “I Love you” is expressed in various language. In this blog, I have compiled about how
Hello is greeted in various language that too from various source.
The following list is of
language and how hello is greeted in that language. In case you find language not in list and you know, please put it in comment section. I will incorporate
as update to push the list toward completion.
Language Greeting
Hindi
Namaste
Albanian Mirëdita
Arabic Ahalan
Armenian Parev
Bulgarian Zdravei
/ Zdrasti
Danish Goddag
Dutch Goede dag, Hallo
English Hello
Finnish Hei
French Bonjour
German Guten Tag
Greek Gia'sou
Hebrew Shalom
Hungarian Jó napot
Icelandic Halló / Góðan daginn
Indonesian Halo
Irish Dia dhuit
Italian Salve / Ciao
Japanese Kon-nichiwa
Korean An-nyong
Ha-se-yo
Norwegian Hallo
Polish Dzien' dobry
Portuguese Olá
Romanian Bunã ziua
Russian Zdravstvuyte
Spanish Hola
Swahili Jambo / Hujambo
Swedish Hej
Thai Sa-wat-dee
Turkish Merhaba / Selam
Ukrainian Vitayu
Vietnamese Xin chào
Welsh Hylo; Sut Mae?
Yiddish Sholem Aleychem
Zulu Sawubona
Chinese Nei Ho/Ni hao
“We almost always only greet strangers when we need something from them (time, directions, etc.).” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Thank You!
Satender Kumar Mall
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