163 languages with a detailed card

Selected languages of the world with a greeting, approximate pronunciation, number of speakers, distribution, relatives and a note. All 7,967 languages are on the interactive globe.

• Бзиара!Abkhaz
• Hallo!Afrikaans
• Irankarapte!Ainu
• Ɛte sɛn?Akan (Twi)
• Tungjatjeta!Albanian
• ሰላም!Amharic
• مرحبا!Arabic
• Բարև!Armenian
• নমস্কাৰ!Assamese
• Kamisaraki!Aymara
• Salam!Azerbaijani
• I ni ce!Bambara
• Kaixo!Basque
• Servus!Bavarian
• Вітаю!Belarusian
• নমস্কার!Bengali
• Demat!Breton
• Здравей!Bulgarian
• မင်္ဂလာပါ!Burmese
• 你好!Cantonese
• Hola!Catalan
• Kumusta!Cebuano
• Håfa adai!Chamorro
• Салам!Chechen
• ᎣᏏᏲ!Cherokee
• Moni!Chichewa
• ᑖᓂᓯ!Cree
• Bok!Croatian
• Ahoj!Czech
• Hej!Danish
• ސަލާމް!Dhivehi
• Hallo!Dutch
• སྐུ་གཟུགས་བཟང་པོ་ལགས།Dzongkha
• Hello!English
• Tere!Estonian
• Woezɔ!Ewe
• Halló!Faroese
• Bula!Fijian
• Hei!Finnish
• Bonjour!French
• Jam tan!Fula
• Ola!Galician
• გამარჯობა!Georgian
• Hallo!German
• Γειά σου!Greek
• Aluu!Greenlandic
• Mbaʼéichapa!Guarani
• કેમ છો!Gujarati
• Bonjou!Haitian Creole
• 你好!Hakka
• Sannu!Hausa
• Aloha!Hawaiian
• שלום!Hebrew
• नमस्ते!Hindi
• Nyob zoo!Hmong
• 你好!Hokkien
• Szia!Hungarian
• Halló!Icelandic
• Ndewo!Igbo
• Halo!Indonesian
• ᐊᐃᓐᖓᐃ!Inuktitut
• Dia duit!Irish
• Ciao!Italian
• こんにちは!Japanese
• Sugeng enjing!Javanese
• Saqarik!K'iche'
• ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ!Kannada
• Naa daa?Kanuri
• Сәлем!Kazakh
• សួស្ដី!Khmer
• Mbote!Kikongo
• Muraho!Kinyarwanda
• 안녕하세요!Korean
• Silav!Kurdish
• Háu!Lakota
• ສະບາຍດີ!Lao
• Sveiki!Latvian
• Mbote!Lingala
• Labas!Lithuanian
• Ki kati!Luganda
• Moien!Luxembourgish
• Здраво!Macedonian
• प्रणाम!Maithili
• Salama!Malagasy
• Selamat!Malay
• നമസ്കാരം!Malayalam
• Bonġu!Maltese
• 你好!Mandarin Chinese
• Kia ora!Māori
• Mari mari!Mapudungun
• नमस्कार!Marathi
• ꯈꯨꯔꯨꯝꯖꯔꯤ!Meitei (Manipuri)
• Сайн байна уу!Mongolian
• Ne y windga!Mooré
• Niltze!Nahuatl
• Yáʼátʼééh!Navajo
• नमस्ते!Nepali
• Bures!Northern Sami
• Hei!Norwegian
• Bonjorn!Occitan
• ନମସ୍କାର!Odia
• Boozhoo!Ojibwe
• Akkam!Oromo
• Салам!Ossetian
• Bon dia!Papiamento
• سلام!Pashto
• سلام!Persian
• Cześć!Polish
• Olá!Portuguese
• ਸਤਿ ਸ੍ਰੀ ਅਕਾਲ!Punjabi
• Rimaykullayki!Quechua
• Iorana!Rapa Nui
• Sar san?Romani
• Bună!Romanian
• Привет!Russian
• Talofa!Samoan
• ᱡᱚᱦᱟᱨ!Santali
• Salude!Sardinian
• Halò!Scottish Gaelic
• Здраво!Serbian
• Lumela!Sesotho
• Dumela!Setswana
• မႂ်ႇသုင်ၶႃႈ!Shan
• Mhoro!Shona
• سلام!Sindhi
• ආයුබෝවන්!Sinhala
• Ahoj!Slovak
• Živjo!Slovene
• Iska warran!Somali
• ¡Hola!Spanish
• Wilujeng!Sundanese
• Jambo!Swahili
• Hej!Swedish
• Kumusta!Tagalog (Filipino)
• Ia ora na!Tahitian
• ⴰⵣⵓⵍ!Tamazight (Berber)
• வணக்கம்!Tamil
• Исәнмесез!Tatar
• నమస్కారం!Telugu
• Bondia!Tetum
• สวัสดี!Thai
• བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས!Tibetan
• ሰላም!Tigrinya
• Gude!Tok Pisin
• Mālō e lelei!Tongan
• Merhaba!Turkish
• Привіт!Ukrainian
• السلام علیکم!Urdu
• ياخشىمۇسىز!Uyghur
• Salom!Uzbek
• Xin chào!Vietnamese
• Shwmae!Welsh
• Goeie dei!West Frisian
• Nanga def!Wolof
• 侬好!Wu (Shanghainese)
• Molo!Xhosa
• Дорообо!Yakut (Sakha)
• שלום־עליכם!Yiddish
• Báwo ni!Yoruba
• Baʼax ka waʼalik?Yucatec Maya
• Padiuxi!Zapotec
• Mwngz ndei!Zhuang
• Sawubona!Zulu

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ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ!

say it: “nuh-mus-KAH-rah”

Kannada

in its own words: ಕನ್ನಡ

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Speakers

59 million (estimate)

Family

Dravidian

Vitality

Safe

Where it is spoken

India

Script

Kannada

Official language

India (regional)

Fun fact

The earliest Kannada inscriptions date from around the 5th century. India granted Kannada the status of a classical language in 2008.

Relatives in the atlas

• നമസ്കാരം!Malayalam
• வணக்கம்!Tamil
• నమస్కారం!Telugu