Language around the World

[JohnM]

Originally Posted by Tapcho

Romani - Latcho nastero divvus
Tappi

Oh so many years since I heard that one, as a young chavver at my Grandmother's knee, , but she also always told me "The Romani language is never written Yiannis ... T'is bad luck to do as such."

[JohnM]

Originally Posted by Kevin WS

Missed the beer somehow Rick. Think someone else must have drunk it when I was not looking!

Can't help wiv the beer Kevin (Wasn't me what nicked it right!), but if you look in our Google box, I've left yer a few fowsan' dollars, mate.

[Tapcho]

Originally Posted by JohnM

"The Romani language is never written Yiannis ... T'is bad luck to do as such."

I know and I had some trouble to find a transcription.

Tappi

[draccus]

In Poland we say ''Wszystkiego najlepszego z okazji urodzin"

[Paper Kosmonaut]

Oh, and to add some more from the Netherlands; as some of you might know, we have a second official language in the Netherlands called Friesian. It is spoken in the uppermost north east part of the country and the wadden sea islands. It has its roots in the same family of languages as celtic.
- fan herte lokwinske mei dyn jierdei (Cordial best wishes with your birthday (literally it saysyearday- which actually is how to pronounce it: fahn hairte lock-winske mai deen yearday.)
- lokkige jierdei (happy birthday (lockigah yearday))

I personally think Friesian is a very pretty sounding language. It is as melodic as Swedish can be and it has a certain poetic quality that I cannot find in Dutch.
Of course the Dutch language has a truckload of different dialects, like Gronings, which is spoken where I live.
We Grunnegers say Filesetaaierd mit dien verjoardag. (Feel-a-set-tired mit deen vejore-dahg)
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[Loui]

In Sundanese /sʌndəˈniːz/ .....Wilujeng tepang taun... (The Sundanese are an ethnic group native to the western part of the Indonesian island of Java)

[herky]

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Originally Posted by rickstef

Well, seeing that South Africa was a Dutch Colony for years, it would stand to figure

well america was a british colony for years!!you will be telling me they speak english in the US next

[Miles Linnabery]

Dear Friends:
This is so cool, as we grow older we still learn. Henry Higgins move over.
Thanks So Much,
Miles

[sgoti]

Originally Posted by herky

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well america was a british colony for years!!you will be telling me they speak english in the US next

We speak American. Any resemblance to actual English is accidental.

[CDR]

In Spanish we say feliz cumpleaños, and in Costa Rica we use the word mae, that is the equivalent to buddy or dude, but depending of your relationship with that person, you say te estás volviendo roco, that means you're getting older
Costa Rican Spanish is very interesting, and Latin Spanish is in some ways different from the original Spanish
PD: you can see in this post that English is not my native language
CDR