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

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Sveiki!

say it: “SVAY-kee”

Latvian

in its own words: latviešu

ListenFind it on the globe

Speakers

1.7 million

Family

Indo-European – Baltic

Vitality

Vulnerable

Where it is spoken

Belarus, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Russian Federation

Fun fact

Together with Lithuanian it is the last living Baltic language. The others have died out.

Relatives in the atlas

• Labas!Lithuanian
• Вітаю!Belarusian
• Здравей!Bulgarian
• Ahoj!Czech
• Bok!Croatian
• Здраво!Macedonian