How To: Say ‘Hello’ in 30 different Languages

Before I tell you how to say ‘Hello’ in 30 languages, let me tell you that ‘Alexander Graham Bell‘, the inventor of Telephone initially used ‘Ahoy‘ which later became ‘Hullo‘ and then ‘Hello‘. An interesting myth states that Mr. Bell had a girl friend named ‘Margaret Hello‘ after whom the word ‘Hello‘ came up. Interesting to read though, it still remains a myth.
So, here it is in the world’s 30 most common languages (except English of course):
      1.       Spanish (Espanol): Hola
      2.       Dutch (Nederlands): Hallo
      3.       French (Francaise): Bonjour, Salut (Pronounced as ‘Saleoo’), Allo
      4.       German (Deutsche): Guten Tag, Hallo
      5.       Hungarian (Magyar): Hello, Szia, Hallo, Szervusz
      6.       Icelandic: Hello
      7.       Indonesian (Indonesia): Halo, Salam
      8.       Irish (Gaeilge): Dia duit
      9.       Italian (Italiano): Ciao, salve, pronto, piacere
     10.   Latin (Latina): Salve, ave, avete
     11.   Latvian (Latvijas): Sveiki, hallo, sveicinati
     12.   Lithuanian (Lietuvos): Sveiki, sveikas, alio
     13.   Norwegian (Norsk): Hallo
     14.   Polish (Polski): Halo, czesc
     15.   Portugese (Portugues): Ola, oi, alo
     16.   Romanian (Roman): Alo, Buna ziua, hei
     17.   Slovak (Slovencina): Ahoj (pronounced as ‘ahoy’), Halo
     18.   Slovenian (Slovenski jezik): Pozdravlijeni
     19.   Swahili (Kiswahili): Wapendwa
     20.   Swedish (Svenska): Halla (pronounced a ‘alloa’), hej, hejsan
     21.   Turkish (Turk): Merhaba, Selam, Alo
     22.   Vietnamese (Viet): Chao, cau chao, tieng chao
     23.   Welsh (Cymraeg): Helo
     24.   Albanian (Shqiptar): Pershendetje
           25.   Hindi (हिंदी): नमस्ते (Pronounced as ‘Namaste’)
           26.   Chinese (Simplified): 你好 (Pronouned as ‘Ni Hao’)
     27.   Estonian (Eesti): Tere, Halloo
     28.   Danish (Dansk): Hej
     29.   Japanese:もしもし(Pronounced as ‘Moshi Moshi’)
     30.   Thai: สวัสดี (Pronounced as ‘Sawadee’)

Gaurav Bhatnagar
Gaurav Bhatnagar
Travel Writer, Photographer, Public Speaker, Entrepreneur @ www.thefolktales.com

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