I found this table on the website of Warsaw School of Economics. It lists a whole bunch of languages and how to say Happy Birthday - or something to that effect - in quite a few languages.
| Afrikaans | Gelukkige Verjaarsdag |
Albanian | Gëzuar Ditëlindjen |
Amharic | Melkam lidet
|
Arabic | Aid milad saeed  |
Armenian | Ierchanik Daretarts |
Aymara | Urupa muñasiñani |
Azeri | Ad Gunun Mubarek  |
Bahasa | Selamat Ulang Tahun |
Bambara | Ala ka san o san ké i kéné gnina |
Basque | Zorionak |
| Belarussian |  |
Bengali | Janmadivas mater Shubhkamona  |
Bhojpuri | Tohara janam din par bahut bahut mubarak ho |
| Brasilian Portugese | Feliz Aniversário |
Bulgarian |  Chestit Rojden Den |
Catalan | Per molts anys |
Chobacano | Compleanyo |
Chinese |  Shēng rì kuaì lè |
Croatian | Srećan rođendan |
Czech | Všechno nejlepši k narozeninám |
Danish | Tillykke med fødselsdagen |
Dhuo | Cham anyuola maber |
Dhivehi | ufaaveri ufandhuvaheh  |
Dolfin | Mayin bharatig |
Dutch | Hartelijk Gefeliciteerd met je verjaardag Prettige verjaardag Gefeliciteerd met je verjaardag |
English | Happy Birthday! |
Estonian | Palju õnne! |
Filipino | Maligayang Kaarawan |
Finnish | Hyvää Syntymäpäivää |
French | Bon anniversaire Joyeux anniversaire |
Galician | Feliz Cumpreanos |
Georgian | gilotsav dabadebis dges  |
German | Alles Gute zum Geburtstag Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag |
Greek |
|
Greenlandic | Inuuissiorninni pilluarit |
Gujurathi | Vadhdeevasanimate shubetsha  |
Hawaiian | Hauoli la hanau |
Hebrew | Yom Hooledet Samea'ach  |
Hindi | Varshaghat ki shubhakamana Janam Din Ki Subhkamana  |
Hungarian | Boldog születésnapot |
Icelandic | Til hamingju með afmælið |
| Indonesian | Selamat Hari Djadi |
Irish | Lá breithe shona dhuit (as corrected by Conan) |
Italian | Buon compleanno |
Japanese | Otanjoubi omedetou  |
Kalenjin | Baibaitu eng' betut ne kikisigin |
Kannada | janma dinada subhashayagalu |
Kashmiri | Voharvod Mubarak Chuy |
Kazak | Tugan kunumen kuttiktaem |
Kikuyu | muthenya waguciaruo muega |
Kiswahili | Heri ya siku yako ya kuzaliwa |
Korean | Saeng il Chuk ha hae  |
Latin | Boenos Anos |
Latvian |
|
Lithuanian | Su Gimimo diena |
in Luxemburg |
|
Macedonian | Среќен роденден |
Malay | Selamat Hari Jadi |
Maltese | Il festa it tajba L-isbaħ xewqat f-għeluq sninek |
Malyalam |  |
Marathi | Vadhdeevasachya shubetchha  |
Mongolian | Tursun udriin mend hurgey  |
Nepalese | janma din ko subhakamana |
Norwegian | Gratulerer med dagen |
Oriya | Shubah Janma Dina  |
Papiamento | Masha Pabien |
Persian | Tavalodat Mobarak  |
Polish | Wszystkiego najlepszego z okazji urodzin |
Portugese | Parabéns |
Punjabi | Sode janamdin diya lakh lakh badhaiya |
Quechua | cusicuy causayquimanta diayquipaj |
Romanian | La multi ani |
Russian |  |
Samoan | manuia le aso fanau |
Sanskrit |
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Schweizerdeutsch | schönä Geburtstag |
Serbian | Sretan rođendan  |
Sesotho | Mahlohonolo a letsatsi la matswalo |
Setswana | letsatsi la matsalo le le boitumelo |
Shona | makorokoto makore akoawande |
Sinhalese | Suba oopan dinayak vayva  |
Sindhi | Thuhinji zindagi mein hamesha khush-haali rahe |
Slovak | Vsetko najlepsie k Tvojim narodeninam |
Slovenian | Vse najboljse za rojstni dan Vse najboljše |
Spanish | Feliz cumpleaños |
in Swaziland | Lusuku Lwekutalwa Loluhle |
Swedish | Grattis på fodelsedagen |
in Taiwan |
|
Tamil | Pirandhanaal Vaazhththukal  |
Tagalog | Maligayang Bati sa iyong Kaarawan |
Telugu | Janma dhina shubhakankshalu  |
Thai | Suk Son one Gurt  |
in Togo | dzigbe za be dzogbe nyuie na wo |
Turkish | 1) Doğum günün kutlu olsun / 2) Nice yaşlara |
in Uganda | kulikka okutukka kumazalibwa |
Ukrainian |  |
Urdu | Saalgirah Mubarak |
Valencian | Feliç aniversari |
Vicaya | Malipayan Katawhan |
Vietnamese | Chuc Sinh Nhat Vui Ve |
Warlpiri | Yimi nguvrju |
Welsh | Penblwydd Hapus |
Xhosa | Ube nemini yokuzalwa emnandi |
Yiddish | freylekhn geburtstog |
Yoruba | E ku ajoyo ojo ibi |
Zulu | Usuku lokuzalwa olumnandi |
9 comments:
How wonderful I am going to start using these on birthday cards from now on :-)
I think Lá breithe shona dhuit! is the usual Irish.
Conor ~ Mine is on September 13th. I will e-mail you my address. :D
Conan ~ Changed accordingly. I actually had to modify/correct the Turkish section also, before posting the table. Well it's a start anyways, maybe more people will see it and let us know what the correct translation is in their language.
Go raibh mile maith agat Conan! (spelling?)
Hah! So Sneezy shares a birthday with our K8 the GR8? I wonder if they are related??
Wow it is K8's birthday, too!
I will have to pop in (well visit her blog I mean) and give her a birthday hug then.
G
Coolio! I have a Hungarian and a Finnish commenter so now I can wish them happy b'day too! I'm saving the list.
Very glad to be of service indeed.
Not sure exactly when I'd use the Latin unless I'm at a seance, some Roman Emperor turns up and it just happens to be his birthday. But some of the others could be very useful.
Ok, ok, I got it Nick! You don't think much of Latin anyways and yes no one speaks it today, so? I won't take it out of the list because of that trivial reason. Heads up, my next post will be verb conjugations in Latin. He he! :)
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