I've lived and visited many other countries and I'm always fascinated by language. Here is a fun list of how to say Merry Christmas in other countries around the world!
- Afrikaans - "Geseënde Kersfees en ‘n Voorspoedige Nuwe Jaar."
- Arabic - "I'd Miilad Said Oua Sana Saida"
- Argentine - "Felices Pasquas Y felices ano Nuevo"
- Armenian - "Shenoraavor Nor Dari yev Pari Gaghand"
- Basque - Eguberri on
- Bohemian - "Vesele Vanoce"
- Brazilian: Feliz Natal
- Breton - "Nedeleg laouen na bloavezh mat"
- Bulgarian - "Tchestita Koleda; Tchestito Rojdestvo Hristovo"
- Chinese - [Mandarin] - "Kung His Hsin Nien bing Chu Shen Tan"
- Chinese - [Catonese] - "Saint Dan Fai Lok"
- Cornish - "Nadelik looan na looan blethen noweth"
- Croatian - "Sretan Bozic i Nova Godina" (Merry Christmas & Happy New Year)
- Czech - "Prejeme Vam Vesele Vanoce a stastny Novy Rok"
- Danish - "Glædelig Jul"
- Dutch - "Vrolijk Kerstfeest en een Gelukkig Nieuwjaar"
- Inupiaq Eskimo (Kotzebue area in NW Alaska)-
- Quvianagli Anaiyyuniqpaliqsi suli Nakuuluni Ukiutqiutiqsi-
- (Merry Christmas) (and) (Happy New Year)
- Estonian - "Haid joule ja head uut aastat"
- Farsi - "Cristmas-e-shoma mobarak bashad"
- Filipino-"Maligayang Pasko"
- Finnish - "Hyvaa joulua"
- French - "Joyeux Noël"
- German - "Froehliche Weihnachten"
- Greek - "Kala Christouyenna"
- Hawaiian - "Mele Kalikimaka"
- Hebrew - "Mo'adim Lesimkha. Chena tova"
- Hindi - "Shub Naya Baras"
- Hungarian - "Kellemes Karacsonyi unnepeket"
- Icelandic - "Gledileg Jol"
- Indonesian - "Selamat Hari Natal"
- Irish - "Nollaig Shona Dhuit"
- Italian - "Buone Feste Natalizie"
- Japanese -" Shinnen omedeto, kurisumasu omedeto" The first part is translated "Happy New Year" Kurisumasu omedeto means Merry Christmas. Japanese people generally add the expression gozaimasu to indicate humility.
- Korean - "Sung Tan Chuk Ha"
- Latvian - "Prieci'gus Ziemsve'tkus un Laimi'gu Jauno Gadu"
- Lithuanian - "Linksmu Kaledu"
- Navajo - "Merry Keshmish"
- Norwegian - "God Jul"
- Pennsylvania German - "En frehlicher Grischtdaag un en hallich Nei Yaahr"
- Polish - "Wesolych Swiat Bozego Narodzenia"
- Portuguese - "Feliz Natal" "Boas Festas"(Good Holidays.)
- Romanian - "Craciun fericit" (Merry Christmas)
- Russian - "Pozdrevlyayu s prazdnikom Rozhdestva s Novim Godom"
- Serbian - "Hristos se rodi"
- Slovakian - "Sretan Bozic or Vesele vianoce"
- Samoan - "La Maunia Le Kilisimasi Ma Le Tausaga Fou"
- Scots Gaelic - "Nollaig chridheil huibh"
- Serb-Croatian - "Sretam Bozic. Vesela Nova Godina"
- Slovak - "Vesele Vianoce. A stastlivy Novy Rok"
- Slovene - "Vesele Bozicne. Screcno Novo Leto"
- Spanish - "Feliz Navidad"
- Swedish - "God Jul and (Och) Ett Gott Nytt År"
- Tahitian -Merry Chrismas :" Ia orana te Noera" and Happy new year is "Ia orana i te mata iti api"
- Thai - "Sawadee Pee Mai"
- Turkish - "Noeliniz Ve Yeni Yiliniz Kutlu Olsun"
- Ukrainian - "Z Rizdvom Khrystovym !" - "Merry Christmas"
- Vietnamese - "Chuc Mung Giang Sinh"
- Welsh - "Nadolig Llawen"
- Yugoslavian - "Cestitamo Bozic"
How every you say it and how ever you spend your day, have a beautiful one!
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