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General Category => Lounge => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on December 23, 2011, 02:16:11 PM
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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
(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 (http://www.guy-sports.com/humor/christmas/christmas_funny_quotes.htm)
*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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Merry Christmas to you Joe and your family! Merry Christmas to the forum members here, too. Have a great Noche Buena! :) :)