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How to Say “Merry Christmas” in 75 of the World’s Languages*
Language |
Merry Christmas |
Afrikaans |
Gesëende Kersfees |
Albanian |
Gezur Krislinjden |
Arabic |
Idah Saidan Wa Sanah Jadidah |
Argentine |
Feliz Navidad |
Armenian |
Shenoraavor Nor Dari yev Pari Gaghand |
Basque |
Zorionak eta Urte Berri On! |
Bengali |
Shuvo Naba Barsha |
Bohemian |
Vesele Vanoce |
Brazilian |
Boas Festas e Feliz Ano Novo |
Breton |
Nedeleg laouen na bloavezh mat |
Bulgarian |
Tchestita Koleda; Tchestito Rojdestvo Hristovo |
Catalan |
Bon Nadal i un Bon Any Nou! |
Chile |
Feliz Navidad |
Chinese |
(Cantonese) Gun Tso Sun Tan'Gung Haw Sun |
Chinese |
(Mandarin) Kung His Hsin Nien bing Chu Shen Tan |
Cornish |
Nadelik looan na looan blethen noweth |
Corsian |
Pace e salute |
Croatian |
Sretan Bozic |
Czech |
Prejeme Vam Vesele Vanoce a stastny Novy Rok |
Danish |
Glædelig Jul |
Dutch |
Vrolijk Kerstfeest en een Gelukkig Nieuwjaar! |
English |
Merry Christmas |
Eskimo |
(inupik) Jutdlime pivdluarit ukiortame pivdluaritlo! |
Esperanto |
Gajan Kristnaskon |
Estonian |
Ruumsaid juulup|hi |
Finnish |
Hyvaa joulua |
Flemish |
Zalig Kerstfeest en Gelukkig nieuw jaar |
French |
Joyeux Noel |
Frisian |
Noflike Krystdagen en in protte Lok en Seine yn it Nije Jier! |
Gaelic |
Nollaig chridheil agus Bliadhna mhath ùr! |
German |
Froehliche Weihnachten |
Greek |
Kala Christouyenna! |
Hawaiian |
Mele Kalikimaka |
Hebrew |
Mo'adim Lesimkha. Chena tova |
Hindi |
Shub Naya Baras |
Hawaiian |
Mele Kalikimaka ame Hauoli Makahiki Hou! |
Hungarian |
Kellemes Karacsonyi unnepeket |
Icelandic |
Gledileg Jol |
Indonesian |
Selamat Hari Natal |
Iraqi |
Idah Saidan Wa Sanah Jadidah |
Irish |
Nollaig Shona Dhuit, or Nodlaig mhaith chugnat |
Italian |
Buone Feste Natalizie |
Japanese |
Shinnen omedeto. Kurisumasu Omedeto |
Korean |
Sung Tan Chuk Ha |
Latin |
Natale hilare et Annum Faustum! |
Latvian |
Prieci'gus Ziemsve'tkus un Laimi'gu Jauno Gadu! |
Lithuanian |
Linksmu Kaledu |
Maltese |
LL Milied Lt-tajjeb |
Manx |
Nollick ghennal as blein vie noa |
Maori |
Meri Kirihimete |
Norwegian |
God Jul, or Gledelig Jul |
Papua New Guinea |
Bikpela hamamas blong dispela Krismas na Nupela yia i go long yu |
Peru |
Feliz Navidad y un Venturoso Año Nuevo |
Philippines |
Maligayang Pasko! |
Polish |
Wesolych Swiat Bozego Narodzenia or Boze Narodzenie |
Portuguese |
Feliz Natal |
Romanian |
Sarbatori fericite & La multi ani |
Russian |
Pozdrevlyayu s prazdnikom Rozhdestva is Novim Godom |
Samoan |
La Maunia Le Kilisimasi Ma Le Tausaga Fou |
Serbian |
Hristos se rodi |
Slovakian |
Sretan Bozic or Vesele vianoce |
Samoan |
La Maunia Le Kilisimasi Ma Le Tausaga Fou |
Scots Gaelic |
Nollaig chridheil huibh |
Serbian |
Hristos se rodi. |
Slovak |
Vesele Vianoce. A stastlivy Novy Rok |
Spanish |
Feliz Navidad |
Swedish |
God Jul and (Och) Ett Gott Nytt Ã...r |
Thai |
Sawadee Pee Mai |
Tongan |
Mele Kalisimasi |
Turkish |
Noeliniz Ve Yeni Yiliniz Kutlu Olsun |
Ukrainian |
Srozhdestvom Kristovym |
Urdu |
Naya Saal Mubarak Ho |
Vietnamese |
Chung Mung Giang Sinh |
Welsh |
Nadolig Llawen |
Yugoslavian |
Cestitamo Bozic |
Will and Guy |
Funny Merry Christmas |
—From Will and Guy’s Funny and Clean Jokes
*NOTE TO FORUM MEMBERS:
If you speak or are conversant with any of the languages in the listing above, please let us know if the phonetic translation of “Merry Christmas” in that particular language is correct and precise. Otherwise, please drop me a line so I can make the necessary correction. Merry Christmas!
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