Language of Love

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) 

→ Afrikaans	Ek het jou lief
→ Arabic	Ohne-buk
→ Burmese	Nin ko nga chitde; Chit pa de
→ Cantonese	Ngor oi ley
→ Catalan	T’estimo
→ Chewa	Noi makokonda
→ Dutch	Ik hou van je
→ Esperanto	Mi amas vin
→ Finnish	Minä rakastan sinua
→ French	Je t’aime
→ Gaelic	Tha gradh agam ort
→ German	Ich liebe dich
→ Ancient Greek	Se erotao
→ Gujarati	Maney tamari satey pyar che
→ Hawaiian	Aloha I’a au oe; Aloha au la o’e
→ Hebrew	Ani ohev otach
→ Hindi	Mai tumaha pyar karta hu
→ Italian	Ti amo
→ Japanese	Aishite imasu
→ Kurdish	Khoshim awée
→ Latin	Te amo
→ Lithuanian	As tave myliu
→ Persian/Farsi	Mahn dousett dasam; Ushegheh-tam
→ Polish	Kocham
→ Portugese	Eu te amo
→ Romanian	Te iubesc
→ Russian	Ya tebya lyublyu
→ Serbo-Croatian	Volim te; Ljubim te
→ Shona	Ndinoluda
→ Spanish	Te amo
→ Swedish	Jag älskar dig
→ Swiss German	I Chaa di Gärn
→ Tagalog	Iniibig kita: Mahal kita
→ Thai	Phom Rak Khun
→ Tsonga	na ku rhandza
→ Tswana	Keyagorata
→ Turkish	Seni seviyorum
→ Urdu	Mi-an aap say piyar karta hun
→ Welsh	‘Rwy’n dy garu di
→ Yiddish	Ikh hob dikh lib
→ Zulu	Ngiya kuthanda