Useful foreign phrases

Hello in several languages A collection of useful phrases suitable for a variety of situations in many different languages with sound files for quite a few of them.

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Index of phrases by language family


Afroasiatic languages

Berber languages
Kabyle, Tamasheq
Chadic languages
Hausa
Cushitic languages
Oromo, Somali
Semitic languages
Amharic, Arabic (Egyptian), Arabic (Lebanese), Arabic (Modern Standard), Arabic (Moroccan), Aramaic, Assyrian, Hausa, Hebrew, Maltese

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Algonquian languages

Arapaho, Atikamekw, Cheyenne, Cree (Plains), Innu, Míkmaq, Ojibwe, Sauk, Shawnee

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Arawakan languages

Garifuna, Taíno-Quisqueyanaíqui, Wayuu

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Athabaskan languages

Chipewyan, Navajo

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Austroasiatic languages

Khmer, Vietnamese

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Austronesian languages

Land Dayak languages
Biatah
Malay-Polynesian languages
Balinese, Banjar, Central Dusun, Chamorro (Guam dialect), Chamorro (North Marianas dialect), Coastal Kadazan, Fijian, Iban, Indonesian, Javanese, Malagasy, Malay, Māori, Palauan, Tetum, Yapese
Micronesian languages
Chuukese, Kiribati, Marshallese, Pohnpeian
Philippine languages
Aklan, Bikol, Blaan, Capiznon, Cebuano, Cuyonon, Hiligaynon, Iloko, Tagalog
Polynesian languages
Hawaiian, Māori, Niuean, Rapa Nui, Samoan, Tahitian, Tokelauan, Tongan, Tuvaluan

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Aymaran languages

Aymara

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Caucasian languages

North East Caucasian languages
Batsbi, Chechen, Lezgi, Tabassaran, Udi
North West Caucasian languages
Abkhaz, Adyghe
South Caucasian languages
Georgian, Laz

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Chumashan languages

Samala

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Dravidian languages

Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu

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Eskimo-Aleut

Aleut, Greenlandic, Inuktitut, Iñupiaq

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Hmong-Mien languages

White Hmong

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Indo-European languages

Albanian languages
Albanian (Gheg), Albanian (Tosk)
Armenian languages
Armenian (Eastern), Armenian (Western)
Baltic languages
Latvian, Lithuanian, Samogitian
Celtic languages
Breton, Cornish, Cumbric, Irish, Manx, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh, Welsh (Gwentian)
Germanic languages
Afrikaans, Alsatian, American Norwegian, Bavarian, Cimbrian, Danish, Dutch, Elfdalian, English (British), Faroese, Flemish (West), Frisian (North - Bökingharde), Frisian (North - Sylt), Frisian (Saterland), Frisian (West), German, Gothic, Icelandic, Limburgish, Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, Norwegian, Old English, Pennsylvania German/Dutch, Scots, Stellingwarfs, Swedish, Swiss German (Basel dialect), Swiss German (Chur dialect), Swiss German (Lucerne dialect), Värmlandic, West Jutlandic, Westrobothnian, Wymsorys, Yiddish
Hellenic languages
Greek (Modern), Greek (Ancient)
Indo-Iranian languages
Indo-Aryan languages
Assamese, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Dogri, Garhwali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kashmiri, Magahi, Maithili, Maldivian, Marathi, Nepali, Odia (Oriya), Punjabi, Romani, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sinhala, Sylheti, Urdu
Iranian languages
Dari, Kurdish (Kurmanji), Kurdish (Sorani), Mazandarani, Ossetian, Pashto, Persian (Farsi), Tajik, Zazaki
Romance languages
Aragonese, Aranese, Aromanian, Asturian, Catalan, Corsican, Extremaduran, French, Friulian, Galician, Gallo, Gascon, Guernésiais, Italian, Jèrriais, Ladino, Latin, Occitan, Mirandese, Monégasque, Mozarabic, Picard, Portuguese (Brazlian), Portuguese (European), Romanian, Romansh, Sardinian (Campidanese), Sardinian (Logodorese), Sicilian, Spanish, Venetian, Walloon
Slavic languages
Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Kashubian, Macedonian, Old East Slavic, Polish, Russian, Rusyn, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Sorbian (Lower), Sorbian (Upper), Ukrainian

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Iroquoian languages

Cherokee

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Koreanic languages

Korean

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Japonic / Japanese-Ryukyuan languages

Japanese, Okinawan

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Khoisan languages

Khoekhoe (Nama)

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Mande languages

Bambara, Loma, Vai

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Mayan languages

Kaqchikel, Mam, Tsotsil, Yucatec Maya

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Mongolic languages

Kalmyk, Mongolian

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Muskogean languages

Choctaw, Muscogee (Creek-Seminole)

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Niger-Congo languages

Bantoid languages
Bamum, Tiv
Bantu languages
Bemba, Chichewa, Chokwe, Duala, Herero, Ibinda, Kikuyu, Kinyarwanda, Lingala, Lozi, Luganda, Ndebele (Northern - South Africa), Ndebele (Northern - Zimbabwe), Ndebele (Southern) Ngoni, Nkore, Northern Sotho, Oshiwambo, Shona, Southern Sotho (seSotho), Swahili, Swati, Tsonga, Tswana, Tumbuka, Umbundu, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu
Benue-Congo languages
Efik
Gur languages
Kabiye, Mossi, Tem
Kru languages
Bassa, Bete (Daloa)
Kwa languages
Dangme, Twi
Senegambian languages
Fula, Wolof
Volta-Niger languages
Ewe, Igbo, Yorùbá

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Nilo-Saharan languages

Acholi, Dholuo, Tugen

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Pama-Nyungan languages

Yolngu

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Permic languages

Udmurt

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Quechuan languages

Cuzco Quechua, Kichwa

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Sino-Tibetan languages

Brahmaputran languages
Kokborok
Sinitic languages
Cantonese, Hakka, Mandarin, Shanghainese, Taiwanese, Teochew
Tani languages
Galo, Hill Miri, Mising
Tibeto-Burman languages
Burmese, Dzongkha, Manipuri, Newar, Tibetan

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Siouan languages

Crow, Lakota Sioux, Omaha

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Tai-Kadai languages

Kam, Lao, Thai, Yongbei Zhuang

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Tungusic languages

Ulch

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Tupí-Guaraní languages

Guaraní

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Turkic languages

Altay, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Chuvash, Kazakh, Kumyk, Kyrgyz, Nogai, Sakha (Yakut), Tatar, Turkish, Turkmen, Tuvan, Uyghur, Uzbek

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Uralic languages

Finnic languages
Estonian, Finnish, Kven, Livonian, Livvi-Karelian, Veps, Võro
Mordvinic languages
Erzya, Moksha
Permic languages
Udmurt
Sami languages
Lule Sámi, Northern Sámi, Southern Sámi
Ugaric languages
Hungarian

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Uto-Aztecan languages

Comanche, Nahuatl, Oʼodham, Serrano

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Isolates

Basque

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Pidgins and Creoles

Bislama, Cape Verdean Creole, Chabacano de Zamboanga, Chabacano de Cavite, Haitian Creole, Jamaican, Mauritian Creole, Norfuk, Papiamento, Réunion Creole, Sango, Sierra Leone Creole, Tok Pisin

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Constructed languages

Ishirkian, Iulji, Klingon, Laala, Lojban, Pig Latin, Quenya, Romániço, Solresol, Talossan, Toki Pona, Wightian

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