Ziua mondială a salutului (World Hello Day) se sărbătorește în 21 noiembrie fiind iniţiată în 1973 de fraţii Brian şi Michael McCormack din Omaha, statul american Nebraska.
Serbată prima oară în contextul conflictului dintre Egipt şi Israel, din octombrie 1973, a reprezentat o formă de protest nonviolent la adresa războiului. Astăzi, sărbătoarea este recunoscută în aproximativ 180 de ţări. Peste 30 de laureaţi ai Premiului Nobel pentru pace au realizat importanţa acestei zile şi au susţinut semnificaţia ei,
Formule de salut in limbile pamatului:
Afrikaans – haai (Pronounced Ha-I)
Albanian – tungjatjeta (Pronounced Toon-jat-yeta)
Arabic – mArHAbAn (pronounced Mar-ha-ban)
Armenian – barev or parev
Azerbaijani – salam pronounced Sa-laam
Bahamas – hello (for.), hi or heyello (informal)
Basque – kaixo (Pronounced kai-show)
Bavarian and Austrian German – grüß Gott (Pronounced gruess gott),
Bengali — ‘aas salamu alaay kum’ (In Bangladesh) ‘namaskar (In West Bengal, India)
Bremnian – koali (Pronounced kowalee)
Bulgarian – zdraveite, zdrasti (informal)
Burmese – mingalarbar
Cape-Verdean Creole – oi, olá
Catalan – hola (Pronounced o-la),
Chichewa – moni bambo! (to a male), moni mayi! (to a female)
Chinese – 你好, Cantonese nei ho or lei ho (Pronounced nay ho or lay ho) Mandarin 你好 (pronounced ni hao), 早上好(pronounced zao shang hao; good morning!)
Congo – Mambo
Cree – Tansi (Pronounced Dawnsay)
Czech – dobré ráno (until about 8 or 9 a.m.), dobrý den (formal), dobrý večer (evening), ahoj (informal; pronounced ahoy)
Danish – hej (informal; pronounced hey),
Double Dutch – hutch-e-lul-lul-o (hello),
Dutch – hoi (very informal), hallo (informal)
English – hello (formal), hi (informal), hey (informal,)
Esperanto – saluton (formal), sal (informal)
Estonian – tere’
Fijian – bula uro
Finnish – hyvää päivää (formal), moi or hei (informal)
French – salut (informal; silent ‘t’), bonjour (formal, Pronounced Bonju; ‘n’ as a nasal vowel),
Gaelic – dia duit (informal; pronounced dee-ah gwitch; literally “God be with you”)
German – hallo (informal), Guten Tag (formal; pronounced gootan taag), Tag (very informal;
Greek – yia sou (pronounced yah-soo; informal), yia sas (formal)
Hawaiian – aloha
Hebrew – shalom (means “hello”, “goodbye” and “peace”), hi (informal),
Hindi and Nepali – नमस्ते, namaste, namaskar (pronounced na-mus-tei),
Hungarian, Magyar – jo napot (pronounced yoh naput; formal), szervusz (pronounced sairvoose; informal), szia (pronounced seeya; informal)
Icelandic – góðan dag (formal; pronounced gothan dagg), hæ (informal)
Igbo – nde-ewo (pronounced enday aywo), nna-ewo (pronounced enna wo)
Indonesian – selamat pagi (morning), selamat siang (afternoon), selamat malam (evening)
Italian – ciào (pronounced chow; informal; also means “goodbye”),
Japanese – ohayou gozaimasu (pronounced o-ha-yo go-zai-mass; good morning), konnichi wa (pronounced ko-nee-chee-wa; afternoon), konbawa (pronounced gong-ban-wa; evening); moshi moshi (pronounced moh-shee moh-shee; when answering the phone); doumo (pronounced doh-moh; informal way of greeting,
Jibberish – huthegelluthego, h-idiguh-el l-idiguh-o (formal), h-diguh-i (informal),
Jamaican(slang)- Yow Wah gwaan (pronounced wa-gwaan)
Kanien’kéha (Mohawk) – kwe kwe (pronounced gway gway)
Kannada – namaskaaram
Kazakh – Salem
Korean – ahn nyeong ha se yo (formal; pronouned ahn-yan-ha-say-yo), ahn nyeong (informal; can also be used to mean “goodbye”)
Kurdish — choni, roj bahsh (day; pronounced rohzj bahsh)
Lao – sabaidee (pronounced sa-bai-dee)
Latin (Classical) – salve (pronounced sal-way; to one person), salvete (pronounced sal-way-tay; to more than one person), ave (pronounced ar-way; to one respected person), avete (pronounced ar-way-tay; to more than one respected person)
Latvian – labdien, sveiki, chau (informal; pronounced chow).
Lingala – mbote
Lithuanian – laba diena (formal), labas, sveikas (informal; when speaking to a male), sveika (informal; when speaking to a female), sveiki (informal; when speaking to more than one person).
Luxembourgish – moïen (pronounced MOY-en)
Malayalam – namaskkaram
Maori – kia ora (kia o ra), tena koe, ata marie, morena (good morning)
Mexican – hola
Mongolian – sain baina uu? (pronounced saa-yen baya-nu; formal), sain uu? (pronounced say-noo; informal), ugluunii mend (morning; pronounced ohglohny mend), udriin mend (afternoon, pronounced ohdriin mend), oroin mend (evening; pronounced or-oh-in mend)
Nahuatl – niltze, hao
Navajo – ya’at’eeh
Niuean – faka lofa lahi atu (formal) fakalofa (informal)
Neapolitan – cia, cha
Northern German – moin moin
Northern Shoto – dumelang
Norwegian – hei (“hi”), hallo (“hello”)
Oshikwanyama – wa uhala po, meme? (to a female;), wa uhala po, tate? (to a male; response is ee) nawa tuu? (response is ee; formal)
Oromo(Afan Oromo) – asham (hi’)
Persian – salaam or do-rood (see note above – salaam is an abbreviation, the full version being as-salaam-o-aleykum in all Islamic societies)
Pig Latin – eyhay (informal), ellohay (formal)
Polish – dzień dobry (formal), witaj (hello) cześć (hi, pronounced, “cheshch”)
Portuguese – oi, boas, olá or alô (informal);
Romanian – salut, buna dimineata (formal; morning) buna ziua (formal; daytime) buna searaformal; evening), buna (usually when speaking to a female pronounced boo-nhuh)
Russian – pree-vyet (informal), zdravstvuyte (formal; pronounced ZDRA-stvooy-tyeh)
Samoan – talofa (formal), malo (informal)
Scanian – haja (universal), hallå (informal), go’da (formal), go’maren (morning), go’aften (evening)
Senegal – salamaleikum
Serbian – zdravo (informal), dobro jutro (morning, pronounced dobro yutro), dobar dan (afternoon), dobro veče (pronounced dobro vetchay evening), laku noć (night)
Sinhala – a`yubowan (pronounced ar-yu-bo-wan; meaning “long live”)
Slovak – dobrý deň (formal), ahoj (pronounced ahoy), čau (pronounced chow) and dobrý (informal abbreviation)
Slovenian — živjo (informal; pronounced zhivyo), dobro jutro (morning), dober dan (afternoon), dober večer (evening; pronounced doh-bear vetch-air)
South African English – hoezit (pronounced howzit; informal)
Spanish – hola (pronounced with a silent ‘h’: o-la),
Sulka – marot (morning; pronounced mah-rote [rolled r and lengthened o], mavlemas (afternoon; v is pronounced as a fricative b), masegin (evening; g is pronounced as a fricative)
Swahili – jambo, Habari (hello)
Swedish – tja (very informal; pronounced sha), hej (informal; pronounced hey), god dag (formal)
Swiss German – grüzi (pronounced grew-tsi)
Tahitian – ia orana
Tamil – vanakkam
Telugu- namaskaram
Tetum (Timor – Leste) – bondia (morning), botarde (afternoon), bonite (evening)
Thai – sawa dee-ka (said by a female), sawa dee-krap (said by a male)
Tongan – malo e lelei
Tsonga (South Africa) – minjhani (when greeting adults), kunjhani (when greeting your peer group or your juniors)
Turkish – merhaba (formal), nevar? (Informal)
Ukranian – dobriy ranok (formal; morning), dobriy den (formal; afternoon), dobriy vechir (formal; evening), pryvit (informal)
Uzbek – Assalomu Alay