How to Say "Hello" in 100+ Languages

Saying "Hi"

Here are some ways to greet people around the world, formally and informally, at different times of the day.

Languages: A–K

Languages: L–T

Languages: U–Z

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Comments

jaiden on November 01, 2019:

in samoa we say talofa

mosiddiqui@nccsk12.org on October 31, 2019:

assalam alaykum

issa anastariastopulos on September 28, 2019:

in wolof we say saalamalikum

Jennifer on May 27, 2019:

In Spanish, u don't say "que pasa" in the sense of "what's up" u say "que pasa" in the sense of "What happened or what's the matter". I'm Spanish so don't hate!!!!!

Tenzin Sangpo on February 01, 2019:

Tibetan say ( TASHI DELEK )

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Steve on January 31, 2019:

So, the Vietnamese say Vietnamese to say hello?

CorrectionGuy on December 07, 2018:

Salam isn't a Persian word. It's Dorud for and only that.

Nancy Hall on October 02, 2018:

Thank you for the different ways to say hello. Can you add how to pronounce them?

Each day our K-! class learns one word that means hello from a different country. Then we go around the group, shake hands and say it, one at a time.

I wanted to show them your site on the Smartboard, but beside it, it says, "How to Use Chinese Curse Words and Phrases.

Brentweaver8861 on June 09, 2017:

What language is the word salut from?

katy on May 17, 2017:

amazing and very helpful thanks for making it yay

donna marie marmol on November 05, 2016:

bonjour

-- on July 06, 2016:

Nice, but to pronounce in Zulu they should put "sow-bon-a" bcoz it's not pronounced how it's spelt ;)

Fun fact for ya on March 15, 2016:

Did you know that the average person walks the same distance as walking around the equator 5 times in their lifetime. Amazing right!? Yeah nobody cares :)

mary on March 24, 2015:

In thai for male it makes me say crap instead of what im supposed to say. Someone might think that instead of sa wad dee krap it is sa wad dee crap

If someone said that, it would be kindof funny

SCLADYBUG on January 28, 2015:

Salute '

Hello

Aloha

Mambo

Jambo

Sally richmin on November 01, 2014:

Hõla mí llámo Sally

CJR on June 14, 2014:

Best page for greetings:-)

Johnb709 on May 10, 2014:

Because here is a list of multiplayer games is that the leave was asked for more. bckecfcecdce

somalia on May 05, 2014:

nabad soomaaha?

Nathanial Blake on May 02, 2014:

I love this website because it helps me

katy on March 31, 2014:

I love different languages

Ryan Joe on March 27, 2014:

Ito na ang pinaka best page!! (This is the best page everr!! :-)

Jemma on March 08, 2014:

hola thanks this helped a lot

Girly on February 26, 2014:

Ummmm... This was really useful, but it only had like 92 things... so i need to find 8 more languages for my 100 day of school thing. Just warning u guys... Only 92/100... Thx anyway!

Abcde on December 23, 2013:

Nice. It helps me with shool project.

Nubaira on December 04, 2013:

um @paige diskin... irish is gaelic. there is no such thing as the irish language

Brandon on November 25, 2013:

It is coooooooooooooooooooollllllll

Seepthymnprem on November 19, 2013:

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Jenny on November 19, 2013:

Yolo. Swag hash tag is hello for teens lol

Paige Diskin on November 07, 2013:

can't believe irish isn't here!!! dia duit (gee-a gwitch) is hello in irsh! :)

VnGirl on October 07, 2013:

Xin chào to the world!

ghj on October 03, 2013:

bohot maj

ghj on October 03, 2013:

wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Guy jhhk on March 20, 2013:

night

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Owen Brown on December 29, 2012:

English French Turkish and Russian Romainan Epio and Spannish Arabic

Rocky Turkish English Musical Arabic Musical French Musical Tamil

Swedish lie Russian English French Turkish and Russain Epio and Spannish Arabic Rocky Turkish English Musical Arabic Musical French

Musical Tamil Swedish lie Russian English French

Nick on December 12, 2012:

Ayubowan. :)

vssf on November 05, 2012:

awESOME!!! i DIN'T KNOW HARDLY KNOW THAT

Vincent on October 18, 2012:

SoSoSoSoSoSoSoSo that's good to know

pengy on May 06, 2012:

u guys are funny x] xD

violet on April 30, 2012:

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TreeHugger on April 24, 2012:

A-L-O-H-A! A little aloha in our day! :) Lets spread a little aloha around the world! :) Hawaii is my favorite state! :')

hello on April 13, 2012:

this is wrong

virgina on March 31, 2012:

Wowers this here website did not help yall should make it better yall here me now

darkpinkjubud on March 20, 2012:

Salut je

krishna on March 19, 2012:

chem che

oscar on February 24, 2012:

lalalalalalalala i am very stupid just like this website

klla on February 21, 2012:

this lame

misty on February 20, 2012:

hello

poopo heaf on February 14, 2012:

this is not helpful

owl on February 06, 2012:

zdravstvuyte! dobry' den! bonjour!

mswahili on February 02, 2012:

najua hakuna mtu anaelewa kenye na sema...NYINYI WOTE NI MARASA SANA KWANZA HAWA WA "ppppddhffd".....qwendeni huko!! translation.....u guys rock!!!

fluke on February 01, 2012:

salut bout bouadimineata

Dzmitry on February 01, 2012:

*Belarusian - pryvita?nie (hello), dzie? dobry (good afternoon), dobry viechar (good evening), dobraj ranitsy (good evening)

alice on January 29, 2012:

great website

asalamulakum on January 09, 2012:

asalamulakum

hillary on December 24, 2011:

wats sup in english and hela in spanghlish

eee on December 18, 2011:

lol ya i do

MAJ on December 11, 2011:

Konichiwa everyone! I like this website...

except...in some languages that i know...it is how are you instead of hello...anyone agree?

Niki on November 15, 2011:

Hello.. May Life Bless you All

bignes_wio on November 02, 2011:

algerian arabic, "salam elykom" to all ppl

Sloth on September 12, 2011:

thanks this helped a lot i draw a comic and on the cover of every issue there is a picture of the main character saying "Hello" and I never repeat a phrase. Check out my comic's site at http://bobtheguy.yolasite.com/

Rinor on May 15, 2011:

albanian: qysh je (how are you), mirmengjesi (goodmorning)

Caroline on April 12, 2011:

Bonjour!

omty on February 10, 2011:

alsalam ua laikum wa rahmatuh lahi u barakatuh

henok on February 02, 2011:

best website ever

Noah on January 08, 2011:

Sup, in English

arab on November 27, 2010:

salam u alakum ya 7mara

shabalaba on September 14, 2010:

baitulfalah dhemkana

TIM on September 02, 2010:

H E L L O ,

Madisen on July 08, 2010:

In Punjab the language is Punjabi and they say Sat Sri Akal (:

brittnie on June 18, 2010:

saying hello is stupid.

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poop on April 03, 2010:

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Nandy on February 17, 2010:

Hi and Hola i love this web

and i like it, me gusta mucho, i know to say hello in Hangu, cuz where are inkorea for a lol while heheh

ramzee on February 01, 2010:

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DUTCH KID!! on May 28, 2009:

luv made my dadproud by partners by saying hello to tons of different languaged people!

cory the welsh guy on April 06, 2009:

hey shwmae is the welsh for hi, but it isn't just used in north wales, im from south wales and we use it

naz on February 18, 2009:

okay , in bengali we do not mother effing say namashkar , only the hindu's do. we say salamwalikum rahmuthullah nir barakathi.

pooh on February 17, 2009:

yall hush

noral on February 05, 2009:

i like to say sexy i 100 languages

sweeooth555 on June 12, 2008:

Like not kk lova anymore like go on this site and hello leave me a message!

sweetooth on May 24, 2008:

so like save this website on my favs 4 me kk

MERIAMSAYS on May 22, 2008:

oh very very sweet it is.

little m came up with this

meriamsays and kklova

kklova on May 19, 2008:

hi this is english for my friends from weird land

kklova

kklova on May 19, 2008:

i like kevin k

kklova on May 17, 2008:

hi sweetooth, mollycutie1248, and yodivarox.

kklova on May 17, 2008:

yo in english

dutch84 on May 15, 2008:

Ndewo! ;-)

Rudra on February 19, 2008:

Namaste to all