Subject: Compilation - "I love you"

I have no idea of how the thread "How to say....", i.e. how to
say "I love you" in various languages, ended up in alt.sex since I
didn't post it on a.s. Anyways, since it did show up I might as well
post the compilation.

Enjoy!

Tom
rcs61423@zach.fit.edu

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Afrikaans       : Ek is lief vir jou 
                : Ek het jou liefe 
Amharic         : Afekrishalehou
Arabic          : Ana Behibak (to a male) 
                : Ana Behibek (to a female) 
Basc            : Nere Maitea
Bavarian        : I mog di narrisch gern
Bengali         : Ami tomAy bhAlobAshi
Berber          : Lakh tirikh
Bicol           : Namumutan ta ka 
Bulgarian       : Obicham te
Cambodian       : kh_nhaum soro_lahn nhee_ah
                : Bon sro lanh oon
Cantonese       : Ngo oi ney 
Catalan         : T'estim   (mallorcan)
                : T'estime  (valencian)
                : T'estimo  (catalonian)
                : T'estim molt (I love you a lot)
Chinese         : Wo ie ni      (Manderin, Cantonese)
Croatian        : LJUBim te
Czech           : miluji te
Danish          : Jeg elsker dig 
Dutch           : Ik houd van jou 
Estonian        : Mina armastan sind
Esperanto       : Mi amas vin
Farsi           : Tora dust midaram 
Flemish         : Ik zie oe geerne 
Finnish         : Mina" rakastan sinua 
French          : Je t'aime 
Friesian        : Ik hou fan dei (sp?)
Gaelic          : Ta gra agam ort
German          : Ich liebe Dich
Greek           : S' ayapo
Hausa           : Ina sonki
Hebrew          : aNEE oHEIVET oTKHA  (female to male)
                : aNEE oHEIV otAKH    (male to female) 
                : Ani ohev at (man to woman)
                : Ani ohevet atah (woman to man)
Hindi           : Mae tumko peyar kia
Hokkien         : Wa ai lu
Hopi            : Nu' umi unangwa'ta
Hungarian       : Szeretlek te'ged 
Indonesian      : Saya cinta padamu 
                : Saya Cinta Kamu
                : Aku tjinta padamu
                : Saja kasih saudari 
Italian         : Ti amo  
Irish           : taim i' ngra leat
Japanese        : Kimi o ai shiteru 
Kiswahili       : Nakupenda
Korean          : Tangsinul sarang ha yo
Kurdish         : Ez te hezdikhem (?)
Latin           : Te amo 
                : Vos amo 
Lao             : Khoi huk chau
Lingala         : Nalingi yo
Luo             : Aheri
Madrid lingo    : Me molas, tronca  
Malay/Indonesian: Sayah Chantikan Awah
                : Aku sayang enkow
Malay           : Saya cintamu 
                : Saya sayangmu 
Mandarin        : Wo ai ni
Mohawk          : Konoronhkwa
Navaho          : Ayor anosh'ni
Ndebele         : Niyakutanda
Norwegian       : Jeg elsker deg   (Bokmaal)
                : Eg elskar deg    (Nynorsk)
Pakistani       : Muje se mu habbat hai
Persian         : Tora dost daram
Pilipino        : Mahal Kita
                : Iniibig Kita
Polish          : Kocham Cie  
                : Yacha kocham
Portuguese      : Eu te amo
Romanian        : Te iu besc
Russian         : Ya lyublyu tebya 
                : Ya vas lyublyu
Scot Gaelic     : Tha gra\dh agam ort 
Serbian         : LUBim te.
Serbocroatian   : volim te 
Shona           : Ndinokuda
Sioux           : Techihhila
Slovak          : lubim ta 
Slovene         : ljubim te 
Spanish         : Te quiero 
Swahili         : Nakupenda
Swedish         : Jag a"lskar dig
Swiss-German    : Ch'ha di ga"rn 
Tagalog         : Mahal kita
Thai            : Phom Rak Khun 
                : Ch'an Rak Khun
Tunisian        : Ha eh bak
Turkish         : Seni seviyurum
Urdu            : Mujge tumae mahabbat hai
Vietnamese      : Anh ye^u em   (man to woman)
                : Em ye^u anh   (woman to man)
                : Toi yeu em
Vlaams          : Ik hue van ye
Welsh           : 'Rwy'n dy garu di.
                : Yr wyf i yn dy garu di (chwi) 
Yiddish         : Ikh hob dikh lib 
Yugoslavian     : Ya te volim
Zazi            : Ezhele hezdege (sp?)
Zuni            : Tom ho' ichema

Bicol           -> Philipin dialect 
Ndebele         -> Zimbabwe 
Vlaams          -> Belgian Dutch
Zazi            -> Kurdic dialect
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Shona           -> Zimbabwe
Luo             -> Kenya

a"              -> a with umlaut
e^              -> ^ above e