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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བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས!

say it: “TAH-shee DEH-lek”

Tibetan

in its own words: བོད་སྐད

ListenFind it on the globe

Speakers

6 million

Family

Sino-Tibetan

Vitality

Safe

Where it is spoken

Bhutan, People's Republic of China, India, Nepal

Fun fact

Tibetan writes many letters that are no longer pronounced, as if it remembered how it sounded a thousand years ago.

Relatives in the atlas

• བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས!Dzongkha
• မင်္ဂလာပါ!Burmese
• 你好!Mandarin Chinese
• 你好!Hakka
• 你好!Cantonese
• ꯈꯨꯔꯨꯝꯖꯔꯤ!Meitei (Manipuri)