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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Kia ora!

say it: “kee-ah OH-rah”

Māori

in its own words: te reo Māori

Play pronunciationFind it on the globe

Speakers

190 thousand (estimate)

Family

Austronesian

Vitality

Definitely endangered

Where it is spoken

New Zealand

Script

Latin

Official language

New Zealand

Fun fact

“Kia ora”, literally “be well”, is widely used in New Zealand English too. Māori has been an official language since 1987.

Relatives in the atlas

• Ia ora na!Tahitian
• Aloha!Hawaiian
• Iorana!Rapa Nui
• Talofa!Samoan
• Mālō e lelei!Tongan
• Bula!Fijian