Greeting someone in (almost) every language!

If you didn't know, I LOVE LANGUAGES!!!! I love the idea of connecting with a person that lives far away from you and that only thinks in that language. I love the sounds of languages, their origin, their culture, OMG it just makes me so happy when I encounter someone that speaks a different language!

When I grow up, I wanna be a polyglot (someone that speaks lots of languages); I wanna speak at least seven languages. I'm already in a good point: at the moment I speak Italian (native speaker), English, Spanish, Portuguese and even a little French (although I'm still learning all these languages - even my own.) I don't actually have any certification for foreign langauages since I'm self-taught; I believe that you can learn a language even if you're broke asf. Internet has lots of resources for language learning, including but not limited to:

  • Youtube videos in foreign languages made by native speakers, like gameplays, vlogs or tutorials (usually it's better to start watching native speaker videos after you get the gist of the language; I did this for Spanish)
  • Flashcard apps for vocabulary like Anki (both for PC and mobile)
  • PDFs that include basic grammar rules (you can find them if you simply search "[language name] grammar pdf")
  • Apps like Language transfer that give you basic grammar courses
  • Other grammar apps (except Glossika, which is paid, and Duolingo which is just AI slop now)

Anyway, here are some ways to say "hello" and "goodmorning" in a lot of languages! Obviously I cannot add every single language that exists (there are more than 7000 languages in the world!!) but I added some of the most known ones.

HI! Goeie môre(Afrikaans)
Hi Mirmengjesi(albanese)
ԲԱՐԵՎ (read Baren) MԲարի լույս(Bari luys) Armenia
أهلاً (Read ahlaan) صباح الخير ( sabah alkhayr) arabic
নমস্কাৰ (read nomoskar) ( Assamese)
Kaixo Egun on(basc)
হাই (read ha’i)শুভ সকাল (Śubha sakāla) Bengali
Kumusta Marhay na aga (bicol)
здрасти (read zdrasti) добро утро (dobro utro) (bulgarian)
你好 (read nei hou) 早晨 (zou san) (cantonese)
Hola Bon dia (catalan)
Hi Maayong buntag (cebuano)
你好(read nihao) standard/traditional Chinese 早上好 (Zǎoshang hǎo - standard ) 早安 (Zǎo ān - traditional )
Salute Bonghjornu (Corsican)
Bok Dobro jutro (croatian)
Ahoj Dobré ráno (czech)
Hej Godmorgen (danish)
Hoi Goedemorgen (dutch)
Tere Tere hommikust (estonian)
HI Magandang umaga po (filipino)
HI Hyvää huomenta (finlandese)
Salut Bonjour (French)
Hallo Guten Morgen (German)
ΓΕΙΑ (read geia) Καλημέρα (Kaliméra) (greek)
Aluu Iterluarit (Greenlandic )
Hi શુભ સવા (Śubha savāra) (gujrati)
Hi Barka da safiya (hausa)
Hi Aloha kakahiaka (hawaiian)
היי (Read hai) בוקר טוב boker tov (Hebrew)
नमस्ते (read namaste) शुभ प्रभात (shubh prabhaat) (hindi)
Szia Jó reggelt (Hungarian)
HÆ ( I’m not sure but I think it’s read he) Góðan daginn (icelandic)
Hai Selamat pagi(Indonesian)
Haigh Maidin mhaith (irish)
Ciao Buongiorno (italian)
(Japanese has lots of ways to greet a person, most of the time konnichiwa is used, but you can also use YAA in very informal situations) おはようございます (read ohayougozaimasu, "u" at the end is semimute)
HI sugeng enjang (Javanese)
ನಮಸ್ತೆ (read namaste) kannada ಶುಭೋದಯ (Śubhōdaya) kannada
안녕 ( read annyeong ) 좋은 아침이에요 (joh-eun achim-ieyo)
ຮິ (read hi) ສະບາຍດີຕອນເຊົ້າ (sabaiditonsao) lao
Sveiki! Labrīt (Latvian)
UELA Bondì (Lombardian dialect, spoken in the Lombardia region of Italy)
Sveiki Labas rytas(Lithuanian)
Amosi Oyawore(luo)
Здраво (read Zdravo) Добро утро (Dobro utro) Macedonian
Hi Ata pai(maori)
Сайн уу read (Sain uu) Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend) Mongolian
Piali Tonalt (nahuatl)
Lotjha same as hello(Southern Ndebele)
HI God morgen (norwegian)
ДАЕ РАЙСОМ ХОРЗ same as hello (read DAE RAJSOM HORZ) Osetian
سلام (Read Salam) صبح بخیر (sobh bakhir) Persian
CZEŚĆ Dzień dobry (polish)
Olá (mostly used in European Portuguese) Oi (mostly used in Brazilian Portuguese) Bom dia (everywhere)
Hi ਸ਼ੁਭ ਸਵੇਰ (Śubha savēra) (punjabi)
Allinllachu Rimaykullayki(quechua)
HI Bună dimineaţa(romanian)
ПРИВЕТ (read PRIVET) Доброе утро (Dobroye utro) (Russian)
ХИ (read HI) Добро јутро (Dobro jutro) Serbian
Mhoro Mangwanani akanaka(shona)
Salutamu Bonjornu (sicilian dialect spoken in Sicily, Italy)
Ahoj Dobré ráno(slovak)
Hi Dobro jutro(slovene)
Hola Buenos dias (Spanish, remember to use upside down “!” at the start of the word If you want to add an exclamation mark)
Hii Habari za asubuhi (swahili)
Hej God morgon(Swedish)
Ia ora na (same as hello) (Tahitian)
Hi காலை வணக்கம் (Kālai vaṇakkam) (tamil)
Hi శుభోదయం (Śubhōdayaṁ) (telugu)
Merhaba Günaydın(Turkish)
ПРИВІТ (read PRYVIT) доброго ранку (dobroho ranku) (Ukrainian)
HI صبح بخیر (sabah bakhair) (urdu)
CHÀO Chào buổi sáng (vietnamese)
Helo Bore da (welsh)
הי (Read hi) גוט מאָרגן (gut morgn) (Yiddish)
Hi Sawubona (zulu)