Useful phrases in many languages

Hello in several languages A collection of useful phrases suitable for a variety of situations in 407 languages with sound files for some of them.

The main index includes natural languages, and language used or intended to be used as International Auxiliary Languages. Phrases in constructed languages can be found at the bottom of the page.

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Index of phrases by language



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Phrases in constructed languages (conlangs)


  1. Abkhaz, Acholi, Adyghe, Afrikaans, Aklan, Albanian (Gheg), Albanian (Tosk), Aleut, Alsatian, Altay, American Norwegian, Amharic, Arabic (Egyptian), Arabic (Lebanese), Arabic (Modern Standard), Arabic (Moroccan), Aragonese, Aramaic, Aranese, Arapaho, Armenian (Eastern), Armenian (Western), Aromanian, Assamese, Assyrian, Asturian, Atikamekw, Aymara, Azerbaijani

  2. Balinese, Bambara, Bamum, Banjar, Bashkir, Basque, Bassa, Batsbi, Bavarian, Belarusian, Bemba, Bengali, Bete (Daloa), Bhojpuri, Biatah, Bikol, Bislama, Blaan, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Burmese

  3. Cape Verdean Creole, Capiznon. Catalan, Cebuano, Chabacano de Cavite, Chabacano de Zamboanga, Chamorro (Guam dialect), Chamorro (North Marianas dialect), Chechen, Cherokee, Cheyenne, Chichewa, Chinese (Cantonese), Chinese (Hakka), Chinese (Mandarin), Chinese (Shanghainese), Chinese (Taiwanese), Chinese (Teochew), Chipewyan, Choctaw, Chokwe, Chuukese, Chuvash , Cimbrian, Comanche, Cornish, Corsican, Cree (Plains), Croatian, Cumbric, Cuyonon, Czech

  4. Dangme, Danish, Dari, Dholuo, Dogri, Duala, Dusun (Central), Dutch, Dzongkha

  5. Efik, Elfdalian, English (British), Erzya, Esperanto, Estonian, Ewe, Extremaduran

  6. Faroese, Fijian, Finnish, Flemish (West), Folkspraak, French, Frisian (North - Bökingharde), Frisian (North - Sylt), Frisian (Saterland), Frisian (West), Friulian, Fula

  7. Galician, Galo, Gallo, Garhwali, Garifuna, Gascon, Georgian, German, Gothic, Greek (Ancient), Greek (Modern), Greenlandic, Guaraní, Guernésiais, Gujarati

  8. Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Herero, Hiligaynon, Hill Miri, Hindi, Hmong (White), Hungarian

  9. Iban, Ibinda. Icelandic, Ido, Igbo, Ilocano, Indonesian, Interlingua, Inuktitut, Iñupiaq, Irish (Gaelic), Italian

  10. Jamaican, Japanese, Javanese, Jenesch, Jèrriais

  11. Kabiye, Kabyle, Kadazan (Coastal), Kalmyk, Kam, Kannada, Kaqchikel, Karuk, Kashmiri, Kashubian, Kazakh, Khmer, Khoekhoe (Nama), Kichwa, Kikuyu, Kinyarwanda, Kiribati, Kokborok, Korean, Kumyk, Kurdish (Kurmanji), Kurdish (Sorani), Kven, Kyrgyz

  12. Ladino, Lakota (Sioux), Lao, Latin, Latvian, Laz, Lezgi, Limburgish, Lingala, Lingua Franca Nova, Lithuanian, Livonian, Livvi-Karelian, Loma, Low Saxon, Lozi, Luganda, Luxembourgish

  13. Macedonian, Magahi, Maithili, Malagasy, Malay, Malayalam, Maldivian, Maltese, Mam, Manipuri, Manx, Māori, Marathi, Marshallese, Mauritian Creole, Maya (Yucatec), Mazandarani, Míkmaq, Mini, Mirandese, Mising, Moksha, Monégasque, Mongolian, Mossi, Mozarabic Muscogee (Creek-Seminole),

  14. Nahuatl, Navajo, Ndebele (Northern - South Africa), Ndebele (Northern - Zimbabwe), Ndebele (Southern), Neolatin, Nepali, Newar, Ngoni, Niuean, Nkore, Nogai, Norfuk, Northern Sotho, Norwegian

  15. Occitan, Odia (Oriya), Ojibwe, Okinawan, Old East Slavic, Old English, Omaha, Oʼodham, Oromo, Oshiwambo, Ossetian

  16. Palauan, Papiamento, Pashto, Pennsylvania German/Dutch, Persian (Farsi), Picard, Pohnpeian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Portuguese (European), Punjabi

  17. Quechua (Cuzco)

  18. Rapa Nui, Réunion Creole, Romani, Romanian, Romanian Tatar, Romansh, Russian, Rusyn

  19. Samala, Sámi (Lule), Sámi (Northern), Sámi (Southern), Samoan, Samogitian, Sanskrit, Sardinian (Campidanese), Sardinian (Logodorese), Sauk, Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Serrano, Sesotho, Shona, Sicilian, Sierra Leone Creole, Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Sorbian (Lower), Sorbian (Upper), Spanish, Stellingwarfs, Sundanese, Swahili, Swati, Swedish, Swiss German (Basel dialect), Swiss German (Chur dialect), Swiss German (Lucerne dialect), Sylheti

  20. Tabassaran, Tagalog, Tahitian, Taíno-Quisqueyanaíqui, Tajik, Tamasheq, Tamil, Tatar, Telugu, Tem, Tetum, Thai, Tibetan, Tigrinya, Tiv, Tokelauan, Tok Pisin, Tongan, Tsez, Tsonga, Tsotsil, Tswana, Tumbuka, Turkish, Turkmen, Tuvaluan, Tuvan, Twi

  21. Udi, Udmurt, Ukrainian, Umbundu, Urdu, Uropi, Uyghur, Uzbek

  22. Vai, Venda, Venetian, Veps, Värmlandic, Vietnamese, Volapük, Võro

  23. Walloon, Wayuu, Welsh, Welsh (Gwentian), West Jutlandic, Westrobothnian, Wolof, Wymsorys

  24. Xhosa

  25. Yakut (Sakha), Yapese, Yiddish, Yolngu, Yoruba

  26. Zazaki, Zhuang (Yongbei), Zulu

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