Good morning in many languages

These are phrases you use when you greet people in the morning. Exactly when you use these phrases varies from country to country.

Language	Phrase
Afrikaans	Goeiemôre, Môre
Albanian	Mirëmëngjes
Aleut	Qilachxizax̂
Alsatian	Güete Morge
Arabic (Modern Standard)	(ṣabāḥul kẖayr) صباح الخير
Arabic (Egyptian)	(ṣabā il kẖayr) صباح الخير response - (ṣabā in noor) صباح النّور
Arabic (Moroccan)	(ṣbah lkẖīr) صباح الخير
Armenian (Eastern)	Բարի' լույս: (Bari luys) Աստծո բարին: (Ast.tzo barin) - response
Aragonese	Buen diya
Asturian	Bonos díes
Azerbaijani	Sabahınız xeyir
Basque	Egun on
Belarusian	Добрай раніцы (Dobray ranitsy)
Bosnian	Dobro jutro
Breton	Demat
Bulgarian	Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Catalan	Bon dia
Cebuano	Maayong Buntag
Chamorro	Buenos dihas
Chinese (Cantonese)	早晨 (jousan)
Chinese (Hakka)	安早 (on¹-zo³)
Chinese (Mandarin)	早安 (zǎoān) 早上好 (zǎoshànghǎo) 早晨好 (zǎochénhǎo) 你早 (nǐzǎo)
Chinese (Shanghainese)	早安 (tsoa)
Chinese (Taiwanese)	爻早 (gau⁵-tsa²)
Chinese (Teochow)	早 (ja²)
Cimbrian	Guuten mòrgont
Cornish	Myttin da
Croatian	Dobro jutro
Czech	Dobré rano Dobrý den
Dalecarlian	Góðmorgun
Danish	God morgen
Dutch	Goede morgen
Esperanto	Bonan matenon
Estonian	Tere hommikust
Faroese	Góðan morgun
Fijian	Ni sa yadra
Finnish	Hyvää huomenta
French	Bonjour
Frisian (West)	Goemoarn
Friulian	Bundì
Gaelic (Irish)	Dia dhuit/dhaibh ar maidin, Maidin mhaith
Gaelic (Manx)	Moghrey mie
Gaelic (Scottish)	Madainn mhath
Galician	Bom día
Georgian	დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
German	Guten Morgen
Greek	Καλημέρα (Kaliméra)
Greenlandic	Iterluarit / Kumoorn
Haitian Creole	Bonjou, Bon maten
Hawaiian	E ʻôlelo mâlie
Hebrew	(boker tov) בוקר טוב
Hiligaynon (Ilonggo)	Maayong aga
Hindi	नमस्ते (Namaste), सुप्रभात (Suprabhāt), शुभ प्रभात (Śubh prabhāt)
Hungarian	Jó reggelt (kívánok)
Icelandic	Góðan daginn, Góðan dag
Ilocano	Naimbag a bigat
Indonesian	Selamat pagi
Inuktitut	ᐅᓪᓛᓴᒃᑯᑦ (Ublaahatkut/Ullaasakkut)
Iñupiaq	Uvlaasatkun / Uvlaalluataq
Italian	Buongiorno
Japanese	お早うございます (ohayō gozaimasu) お早う (ohayō)
Jèrriais	Bouônjour (à matîn)
Kashubian	Dzén dobri
Kazakh	Қайырлы таң (Qayırlı tañ)
Kinaray-a	Mayad nga aga
Korean	안녕하십니까 (annyeonghashimnikka)
Kurdish	Seba be kher
!Kung San	Tuwa
Ladino	(Buenos dias) בואינוס דיאס
Latvian	Labrīt
Limburgish	Gojemörge
Lithuanian	Labas rytas
Luxembourgish	Gudde Moien
Macedonian	Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Māori	Kia ora, Ata marie, Mōrena
Malay	Selamat pagi
Maltese	Bonġu / L-għodwa t-tajba / Bonġornu
Mauritian Creole	Bonzour
Mongolian	Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
Nepali	शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Norwegian	God morgen
Occitan	Bonjorn
Okinawan	Ukimi soo chii
Papiamentu	Bon dia
Persian	(sobh bekheir) صبح بخير
Polish	Dzień dobry
Portuguese	Bom dia
Romanian	Bună dimineaţa
Russian	Доброе утро (Dobroe utro)
Sardinian	Bonas dies
Scots	Guid mornin
Serbian	Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
Sesotho	Mmoro (to one person) Mmorong (to more than one person)
Shona	Mangwanani / Mangwanani, marara sei? (reply)
Slovak	Dobré ráno (used until 8am) Dobrý deň (used from 8am until dark)
Slovenian	Dobro jutro (used until 8am) Dober dan (used from 8am until sunset)
Spanish	Buenos días
Stellingwarfs	Goeiemorgen
Swahili	Habari ya asubuhi
Swedish	God morgon
Tagalog	Magandang umaga po (frm) Magandang umaga (inf)
Thai	สวัสดีครับ/ค่ะ (sawùt dee krúp/kâ)
Tok Pisin	Moning
Turkish	Günaydın
Ukrainian	Доброго ранку (Dobrogo ranku)
Urdu	(subha bākhair) صبح بخير
Uzbek	Hayirli tong
Venda	Avuxeni
Vietnamese	Chào buổi sáng
Welsh	Bore da
Yapese	Fal'e kadbul
Yiddish	(Gutn morgn) גוטן מאָרגן

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Links

Useful phrases in various European languages
http://www.geocities.com/mailjohan/

Other phrases