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| Language | Merry Christmas |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | Gelukkige Kersfeesen |
| Amharic | Enquine le gena adersashewu |
| Arabic | Eid-dok um-barak or Eidat Mubarak |
| Armenian | Shnorhavor Surb Tsnund or Bari Kaghand |
| Bantu (Kipare Dialect) | Luzihiro Lwa Krismas |
| Bantu (Chinayanja) | Kwa Beno Banso Bwanana |
| Bantu (Kikango) | Na Bino Banso Bonane |
| Basque | Nathibitate Alegara or Eguberri Alegara |
| Bulgarian | Chestita Koleda or Vesela Koleda |
| Catalan | Felicas Pasquas |
| Chinese | Kung Ho Shêng Tan or Shêng Tan K'uai Lo or Sheng dan kuai le |
| Croatian | Radostan Narodenje Kristovo |
| Czech | Veselé Vánoce |
| Danish | Glædelig Jul |
| Dutch | Vrolyk Derstfeest or Zalig Kerstfeest or Gezellige Kerstmis |
| Esperanto | Gajan Kristnaskon |
| Estonian | Roomsaid Joulu Puhi |
| Finnish | Hauska Joulua or Iloista Joulua |
| Flemish | Vrolijke Kerstmis |
| French | Joyeux Noël |
| German | Fröhliche Weihnachten |
| Greek | Kala Christouyenna |
| Gujarati | Shubh Diwali |
| Hawaiian | Mele Kalikimaka |
| Hebrew | Chag Ha-Molad Sameach |
| Hindi | Shubh Dipavali |
| Hungarian | Boldog Karácsonyi ünnepeket or Boldog Karácsonyt |
| Icelandic | Glediles Jol |
| Indonesian | Ria Hari Natal |
| Irish Gaelic | Nollaig Shona Dhuit |
| Italian | Buon Natále or Felice Natále |
| Japanese | Yoi Kurisumasu O Oinori Itashimasu |
| Korean | Koo Ju Syung Tarn |
| Latin | Felicem Diem Nativitatis Christi |
| Latvian | Priecigus Ziemasvetkus |
| Malayan | Selamat Mari Raja Natal |
| Norwegian | Gledelig Jul or God Jul |
| Persian | Eiddat Mobark |
| Portuguese | Feliz Natal or Boas Festas |
| Romanian | Sárbátori Fericite or Craciun Fericit |
| Russian | s Rozhdestvom Khristovym |
| Serbian | Hristos se rodi |
| Slovakian | Vesele Vanoce |
| Slovenian | Radosten Narodzenje Kristovo |
| Spanish | Feliz Navidad or Felices Pascuas |
| Swahili | Changamfu Krismas or Nawatakia Heri za Krismas |
| Swedish | God Jul |
| Tagalog | Maligyang Pasko |
| Turkish | Nevincli Noel or Noeliniz |
| Ukrainian | z Rozhestvom Khristovym or z Rizdvom Khristovim |
| Vietnamese | Lê Thiên-Chúa gian-sinh |
| Welsh | Nadolig Llawen |
| Yiddish | Frehliches Krismes |
Note: For languages that are not written in the Roman alphabet, transliterations are as given in the sources. Languages that use special characters not available in HTML are not included.
Sources: Del Re, Gerard. The Christmas
Almanack. Doubleday, NY. 1979.
Los Angeles Public Library SCAN/INFO v.4(2), November, 1991.
Verified by: CM, 5/00 & DS, 12/00
Disclaimer:
While the Library has verified the information presented in these files in what it considers to be reliable and authoritative sources, it cannot take responsibility for nor guarantee the accuracy of the information presented.