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From: lmd@netcom.com (Lee Davidson)
Subject: Re: I need goodbye in 16 languages
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The following is taken from the responses I got as of a week or so ago. 
Someone requested that I post all of these. I only extracted the relevant 
lines, did not do anything further to make this look nice.

Afrikaans: Totsiens
armenian mnas parov (to one staying)
Armenian tsedesoutiun
armenian yertas parov (to one leaving)
Cantonese Joi Gin (don't remember tones)
Croatian  Dovidjenja (more like: See you again)
Croatian: Dovidenja [,dovi'dZen^a] (horizontal dash across second d)
Croatian: Zbogom.
CZECH:     Na shledanou /na 'zHledanOU/ --> OU = diphthong,
Danish Hej (is more colloqial and can be used as 'Hello!' too)
Danish Hej hej (same as above)	
Danish is "farvel".
Danish Paa gensyn (aa is a Danish letter a with a little cirkle over it)
Danish Ses (Colloquial) abbreviated form of 'vi ses' meaning 'see you'
DANISH:    Farvel /fa'vel/
DUTCH:     Tot ziens /tot 'zi:ns/
Dutch: "Vaarwel"
english cheerio
Esperanto it is "adiau" (place a breve over the u) or more common
French, "Adieus, mon amour"
FRENCH:    Au revoir /o: r@v'wa:r/ --> @=/schwa/
French: "Adieu"
GEORGIAN:  Shvidi /'SHvidi/ --> SH ~~== English /sh/
german Auf Wiedersehen
German auf wiedertschuss
GERMAN:    Auf Wiedersehen /AOf 'vi:der`ze:n/
GREEK:     Antio /an'dio/
Hebrew Le hitra'ot
irish gaelic slan agat (to one staying
Irish Gaelic slan leat (to one leaving)
Italian, "Ciao"
ITALIAN:   Arrivederci /ar:ive'derCZi/ --> CZ ~~== English /ch/
Italian: "Addio"
Japanese, "Sayonara"
Kahabu (an Austronesian language spoken in Taiwan) "Alu tapahadasi minang".
LETTISH:   Uz redzesanos /uz 'reDZe:SHanwos/ DZ = affricate,
mandarin Chinese, "Zai Jian"
Mandarin Zai4 Jian4 (4 indicates falling tone on each syllable)
Navajo: hagoone' (there should be a high tone mark - accent - over the first o.)
POLISH:    Do widzenia /do vi'DZeNa/ --> DZ =  affricate,
Portuguese, "Ate' logo"
RUMANIAN:  La revedere /la reve'dere/
Russian, "Do Svidaniya"
RUSSIAN:   Do svidanija /da svi'daNj@/
SERBIAN:   Do vidjenja /do vi'd3eNa/ --> N = palatal N (like Portuguese /nh/)
Slovenian: Na svidanje [na svi'danie]
Spanish, "Adios Amigos"
SPANISH:   Hasta la vista /'asta la 'Vista/ --> V=labial /v/
Spanish: "Adios"
Swahili: Kwa heri [kwa heri]
Swedish hej da* (* is a ring over 'a')
Swedish:   Hejda (with a circle over the last 'a')
Tagalog it is "paalam"
Tagalog paalam na (not just 'paalam' as someone else said)
UKRAINIAN: Do pobachennja /do po'baCZeN:a/ CZ ~~== English /ch/,
Ukranian:  do pobachenia (I can't do Cyrillic letters here :( )

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