Goeie dei!
say it: “GOO-yeh day”
West Frisian
in its own words: Frysk
- Speakers
- 500 thousand
- Family
- Indo-European – Germanic
- Vitality
- Safe
- Where it is spoken
- Netherlands
Fun fact
Of all the languages in the world, Frisian is the closest to English.
162 languages with a greeting
How to say hello in languages from all over the world: greeting, pronunciation, a painted landscape and a fun fact for children. Every language on Earth is on the spinning 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
- 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
- བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས!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