Mar 31, 2006 04:33
I've talked about this thing before, but when you log in to your email thingy they have a greeting at the top of the page in a different language each day. I like trying to guess the language.
Dzien dobry
I guessed that one right, and I don't even know a word of the language.
And I found three more to put on my "OMG look how they all have the same origin" list of Finno-Ugric greetings.
Terveh (Karelian)
Terveh (Votic)
Terveüz (")
Tervüüz (")
Tervhen (Veps)
Tervist (Estonian)
Dearvva (Saami)
Terve (Finnish)
Szervusz (Hungarian)
Terveh must go back a bit. Apparently it's also "Old Estonian".
And, randomly, I was previously unaware of how many languages use "salam" as a greeting or part of one.
smug,
language