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As
we travel around Africa, we greet different people. I would like to assist with identifying some African greetings
that you can use. Feel free to add some more:
Kenya
Swahili: Habari/Jambo
English: Hello
Ethiopia
Amharic: teanastellen
English: Hello
Gabon
French: Bonjour
Ghana
Twi: ete-sen
Ga: meeng-gah-bou (spoken
in the capital Accra)
Dagbani: Kawula (good
morning - desibah,
good afternoon - anteray,
good evening -ana(w)ula
Hausa: sannu (spoken
in northern Ghana)
English: Hello
Lesotho
South
Sotho: Lumela
English: Hello
Libya
Arabic: salaam
aleikum
Madagascar
Malagasy: Salama
French: Bonjour
Malawi
Chichewa: Moni
English: Hello
Mali
French: Bonjour
Bambara: i-ni-cheh
Tamashek: met-al-ee-khah(Tuareg
language)
Mauritania
Arabic: salaam
aleikum
Hassaniya: sa-la-mah
ah-lay-kum
Morocco
Arabic: salaam
aleikum
French: Bonjour
Mozambique
Portuguese: Bom
Dia (Good
Morning), Boa
tarde (Good
afternoon), Boa
noite (Good
evening)
Namibia
Afrikaans: Hallo
Damara/Nama: !gai//oas (spoken
in the south and southeast)
Herero/Himba: Tjike (spoken
in the north central and northwest)
English: Hello
Nigeria
Hausa: sannu
Igbo: ee-bow-lah-chee(southeastern
Nigeria)
Yoruba: bah-oh
English: Hello
French: Bonjour
Rwanda
French: Bonjour
Senegal
French: Bonjour
Fulfulde: no
ngoolu daa
Wolof: na
nga def
Sierra
Leone
Krio: How
de body?
South
Africa
Zulu: Sawubona
Xhosa: Molo
Afrikaans: Hallo
English: Hello
Sudan
Arabic: salaam
aleikum
Swaziland
Swati: Sawubona
English: Hello
Tanzania
Swahili: Salama/Jambo
English: Hello
Togo
French: Bonjour
Tunisia
French: Bonjour
Arabic: salaam
aleikum
Uganda
Luganda: Oli
otya
Swahili: Salama/Jambo
English: Hello
Zambia
English: Hello
Bemba: Muli
shani
Zimbabwe
English: Hello
Shona: Mhoroi
Ndebele: Sawubona
Angola
Portuguese: Bom
Dia (Good
Morning), Boa
tarde (Good
afternoon), Boa
noite (Good
evening)
Botswana
Setswana: Dumela
mma/rra (to
woman/man)
English: Hello
Burkina
Faso
French: Bonjour
Dioula: in-i-che
Cameroon
French: Bonjour
English: Hello (in
the west of Cameroon)
Cote
d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
French: Bonjour
Dioula: in-i-che
Egypt
Arabic: salaam
aleikum
English: Hello
