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| Language
of Love |
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Why not spice up your
relationship and get multilingual?
Below are
instructions on how to say 'I love you' in 40 obscure tongues.
Just tap them into an SMS and let Cupid's arrow fly! (Source:
Schott's Original Miscellany,
Ben Schott, Bloomsbury 2002)
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→ Afrikaans
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Ek het jou lief
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→ Arabic
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Ohne-buk
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→ Burmese
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Nin ko nga chitde; Chit pa de
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→ Cantonese
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Ngor
oi ley
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→ Catalan
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T'estimo
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→
Chewa
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Noi makokonda
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→ Dutch
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Ik hou van je
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→ Esperanto
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Mi amas vin
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→ Finnish
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Minä rakastan sinua
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→ French
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Je t'aime
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→ Gaelic
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Tha gradh agam ort
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→ German
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Ich liebe dich
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→ Ancient Greek
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Se erotao
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→ Gujarati
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Maney tamari satey pyar che
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→ Hawaiian
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Aloha I'a au oe; Aloha au la o'e
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→ Hebrew
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Ani ohev otach
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→ Hindi
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Mai tumaha pyar karta hu
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→ Italian
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Ti amo
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→ Japanese
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Aishite imasu
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→ Kurdish
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Khoshim awée
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→ Latin
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Te amo
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→ Lithuanian
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As tave myliu
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→ Persian/Farsi
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Mahn dousett dasam; Ushegheh-tam
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→ Polish
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Kocham
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→
Portugese
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Eu te amo
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→ Romanian
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Te iubesc
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→ Russian
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Ya tebya lyublyu
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→ Serbo-Croatian
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Volim te; Ljubim te
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→
Shona
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Ndinoluda
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→ Spanish
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Te amo
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→ Swedish
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Jag älskar dig
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→ Swiss German
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I Chaa di Gärn
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→
Tagalog
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Iniibig kita: Mahal kita
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→ Thai
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Phom Rak Khun
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→
Tsonga |
na ku
rhandza |
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→ Tswana
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Keyagorata
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→ Turkish
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Seni seviyorum
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→ Urdu
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Mi-an aap say piyar karta hun
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→ Welsh |
'Rwy'n
dy garu di |
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→
Yiddish |
Ikh hob dikh lib |
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→ Zulu
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Ngiya kuthanda
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