100 ways to say "hello"

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* Arabic - sabbah-el-khair (good morning), masaa-el-khair (good evening), Marhaba (Hello)

* Armenian - barev or parev

* Bahamas – hello (formal), hi or heyello (informal)

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

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

* Bengali — namaskar

* Bulgarian - zdraveite, zdrasti (informal)

* Burmese - mingalarbar

* Catalan - hola (pronounced o-la), bon dia (pronounced bon dee-ah)good morning, bona tarda (bona tahr-dah) good afternoon, bona nit (bona neet)good night

* 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)

* Chinese - Cantonese nei ho (pronounced nay ho) Mandarin (pronounced ni hao)

* Congo - mambo

* Croatian - boke (informal), dobro jutro (morning), dobar dan (day), dobra većer (evening), laku noć (night)

* Czech - dobré ráno (until about 8 or 9 a.m.), dobrý den (formal), dobrý večer (evening), ahoj (informal; pronounced ahoy)

* Danish - hej (informal; pronounced hey), god dag (formal), god aften (evening; formal), hejsa (very informal).

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

* English - hello (formal), hi (informal)

* Esperanto - saluton

* Finnish - hyvää päivää (formal), moi or hei (informal), moro (Tamperensis)

* French - salut (informal; silent 't'), bonjour (formal, for daytime use; 'n' as a nasal vowel), bonsoir (good evening; 'n' is a nasal vowel), bonne nuit (good night). There is also "ça va", but this is more often used to mean "how are you?"

* Gaeilge - dia duit (informal; pronounced dee-ah gwitch; literally "God be with you")

* Georgian - gamardjoba

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

* Gujarathi - kem che

* Greek - yia sou (pronounced yah-soo; informal), yia sas (formal)

* Hawaiian - aloha

* Hebrew - shalom (means "hello", "goodbye" and "peace"), hi (informal), ma kore? (very informal, literally means "whats happening" or "whats up")

* Hindi - namaste (pronounced na-mus-thei), kaise hain (a little formal), kaise ho (more informal, familiar)

* Hindustani - namaste

* Hungarian, Magyar - jo napot (pronounced yoh naput; daytime; formal), szervusz (pronounced sairvoose; informal)

* Icelandic - góðan dag (formal; pronounced gothan dagg), hæ (informal)

* Igbo - nde-ewo (pronounced enday aywo), nna-ewo (pronounced enna wo)

* Indonesian - selamat pagi (morning), selamat siang (afternoon), selamat malam (evening)

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