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Modern Santa Claus is multilingual and physically fit. Merry Christmas in 100 languages!
Published on 23/12/09 at 23:45:59 GMT by admin

Modern Santa Claus is multilingual and physically fit. Merry Christmas in 100 languages!

Today's Santa is jolly and twinkly-eyed, but he also needs to be physically fit and multilingual.

There's no one bigger than Santa in a young childrensÂ’ eyes, he has the power to make kids feel like they are the most important persons in the world. Therefore Santa must have the correct presence, personality, voice and personal skills.

Nowadays, Santa must also be fit. Not only because the important task of climbing down chimneys but also because over 90% of the children who visit Santa these days sit on his knee. This season Santa needs also to deal with the swine flu threats and should remember to regularly sanitize his hands and change gloves often.

According to many Santa is seen rather as a cultural figure and not a religious one. These days with our globalizing world, many Santas often notice that their visitors are from all ethnic backgrounds and religions, and this also requires special multilingual skills. It has been reported of Santas who can wish children Merry Christmas in 20 languages.

To help with the ho-ho-ho task, we are enclosing a small list of Merry Christmas in nearly 100 languages, if we forgot some kindly add it by commenting the article. Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas in many languages:


Afrikaner [Afrikaans]   "Geseënde Kersfees"
Albansk   "Urime Krishtlindjet" OR "Urime Kërshëndellat" (Takk! Rrahim Jashari)
Amharic    "Enkwan laberhana ledat abaqqawot"
OR "Melkam amat ba‘al yehunellachihu"
Arabic    "Milad Majid" OR "Milad Saeed"
Argentine    "Feliz Navidad"
Armenian   "Shenoraavor Nor Dari yev Pari Gaghand"
Basque   "Zorionak eta Urte Berri On"
Bengali   "Shubho Barodin"
Bohemian   "Vesele Vanoce"
Bosnisk   "Sretan  Bozic (Sretan  Båsjitj)"
Brazilian Portuguese    "Feliz Natal"
Briton   "Nedeleg laouen na bloavezh mat"
Bulgarian   "Tchestita Koleda" OR "Tchestito Rojdestvo Hristovo"
Catalan   "Bon Nadal i un Bon Any Nou"
Cambodian   "Soursdey Noel"
Chinese [Mandarin]   "Sheng Dankuai Le"
Chinese [Cantonese]    "Sing Daan Faai Lok"
Cornish   "Nadelik looan na looan blethen noweth"
Corsican   "Pace e salute "
Croatian    "Sretan Bozic"
Czech   "Velike Vanoce"
Danish    "Glædelig Jul"
Dutch   "Vrolijk Kerstfeest"
Egyptian    "Colo sana wintom tiebeen"
English [American]   "Merry Christmas"
English [Australian]   "'Ave a bonza Chrissy, Mate"
English [United Kingdom]   "Happy Christmas"
Eskimo   "Jutdlime pivdluarit ukiortame pivdluaritlo "
Esperanto    "Gojan Kristnaskon"
Estonian    "Rõõmsaid jõulupühi" (Takk! Øyvind Rangøy)
Farsi    "Christmas-e-shoma mobarak bashad"
Faroese   "Gleðilig Jól"
Filipino    "Maligayang Pasko"
Finnish   "Hyvää Joulua or Hauskaa Joulua"
Flemish   "Zalig Kerstfeest en Gelukkig nieuw jaar"
French    "Joyeux Noël"
Frisian   "Noflike Krystdagen en in protte Lok en Seine yn it Nije Jier"
Gaelic   "Nollaig Shona Dhuit"
German   "Froehliche Weihnachten"
Greek   "Kala Christouyenna"
Hawaiian   "Mele Kalikimaka"
Hebrew   "Khag Molad Sameakh, Shana Tovva"
Hindi   "Shub Badadin"
Hungarian   "Kellemes Karacsonyi unnepeket"
Icelandic   "Gledileg Jol"
India   "Tamil Nadu - Christmas Vaazthukkal "
Indonesian    "Selamat Hari Natal"
Iraqi   "Idah Saidan Wa Sanah Jadidah"
Irish   "Nollaig Shona Duit"
Italian   "Buon Natale"
Japanese   "Meri Kurisumasu"
Klingon   "QISmaS Quch Daghajjaj"
Korean   "Sung Tan Jul Chuk Ha"
Latvian    "Prieci'gus Ziemsve'tkus un Laimi'gu Jauno Gadu"
Lithuanian   "Linksmu Kaledu"
Malay    "Selamat Hari Natal dan Tahun Baru"
Maltese   "Il-Milied it-tajjeb"
Maori   "Meri Kirihimete"
Navajo   "Merry Kashmis"
New Guinea Pidgin    "Meri Christmas"
New Zealand   "Happy Christmas"
Norwegian   "God Jul"
Pennsylvania German    "En frehlicher Grischtdaag"
Peru    "Felices Fiestas" OR "Feliz Navidad"
Polish   "Wesolych Swiat Bozego Narodzenia"
Portuguese    "Feliz Natal"
Punjabi   "Hacahi Ke Eide"
Rumanian    "Sarbatori Fericite"
Russian   "S Rozhdestvom Kristovym"
Serbian    "Hristos se rodi"
Slovakian   "Sretan Bozic" OR "Vesele vianoce"
Samoan    "Manuea le Karisimasi"
Scots Gaelic   "Nollaig chridheil huibh"
Slovak    "Vesele Vianoce. A stastlivy Novy Rok"
Slovene   "Srecen Bozic"
Spanish    "Feliz Navidad"
Swahili   "Heri ya Krismasi"
Swedish   "God Jul"
Tagalog [Philippines]   "Maligayang Pasko"
Tahitian    "Ia ora'na no te noere"
Telugu   "Santhasa Krismas"
Tamil   "Nathar Puthu Varuda Valthukkal"
Thai    "Suksan Christmas"
Turkish   "Noeliniz Ve Yeni Yiliniz Kutlu Olsun"
Ukrainian   "Z Rizdvom Krystovym" OR "Veselogo Rizdva""
Urdu [Pakistan]   "Shadae Christmas"
Uzbek    "Yangi Yiligiz Mubarak Bolsun"
Vanina   "Bon Natale a Tutti"
Vietnamese   "Chuc Mung Giang Sinh"
Welsh   "Nadolig Llawen"
 

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