Welcome to Grex.  There are a lot of ways you can use our system, and we are
happy to help people who want to practice written English.  Try typing
"join language" at an Ok: prompt to find the conference where lots of
languages are discussed.  If yours isn't there add your welcome to this
item.  

To get started, I'll ask Grexers to enter a welcome in whatever language
they are fluent in.  

69 responses total.

Kumusta po kayo?  (formal "how are you?" greeting in Tagalog (Philippines))

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Baruch haBah. (welcome in Hebrew)

I guess that "beinvenue" is the French word for "welcome".  Especially for
someone you knew, I guess "Bonjour!  Comment allez-vous?" would be more
commone, as in "Hello! (Good day!)  How are you? (How do you go?)"

Failte Romhat!  (you're most welcome, in Irish)
Hola, que tal? (casual Spanish- hello, what's up?)

This item has now been linked from the Language conference to the Intro
conference.

Welcome!

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hello
hai aggy this is arthi

Mushi-mushi (Japanese "Hello" for the telephone)

 hi i am animesh firast intro duce your self

Hi Aarthi Niranjan Iam glad to receive hai from you , Accept my hai and best
wishes also. 

Namaskar (Indian greeting)

Namaskar Sridhar
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kaise hai app ?

welcome to grex baptun.  It really does get easier

Nulvaravu . (It means WELCOME in TAMIL Language ).
Tamil Language is one of the Regional Languages of INDIA.

I learned that "SOWkeeama" was a/the Tamil greeting.  How do these differ?

Enthundu visesham? ("How are you in Malayalam, a language spoken in Kerala,
India)

I have heard the "namaskar"  greeting before. Is that Hindi?

I have been told that there are about 26 languages in India. I know of 
the names of only a few. 

Hindi - the official language of the Government in New Delhi, and the 
regional language around that city.

Tamil - spoken in the Tamil Nadu state, I think including the city of 
Madras.

Malayalam (I just learned this) - but I do not know where Eerala is.

There are a lot of grexers from Bangalore, Mumbai, and Calicut. I think 
each one has a different regiuonal language but I do not know what they 
are.

Some of the languages spoken India are Malayalam, Tamil, Gujarati, Kashmiri,
Hindi, Kannada, Telugu, Oriya, Marathi, Bengali, Naga, Manipuri etc.

To answer Steve's query: Kerala (Steve, please note the spelling ;-)) is a
tiny state arranged along the western coast of India at its southern tip. The
state is known for its natural beauty -- forests, backwaters, and
all-pervading greenery -- and its total literacy. Malayalam is the language
spoken; Kerala is called "Keralam" in Malayalam :-)

re Kevin's #16: 'Nalvaravu' = Nal (good) + Varavu (Arrival) => Welcome
                 'Sowkyam'  = Well-being 
                  'Sowkyama?' =~ How are you?

'Kay mhanta?'=how are you?'<from Adinath>
'Kaay chaalal aahe?'=what's going on?'<IN Marathi (maharashtra India)

Explanations given by atticus is excellent.
Most of the languages spoken in Northern India are so much similar to Hindhi
..
And Southern Indian Languages are completely Different from each other with
very exceptions.


Namaskar in Hindi is equivalent to Vanakam in Tamil

Wow!  That *is* different.  Do you know the derivations of the two greetings?
That is, where they came from or what their literal meaning would be if you
disected the words?

Tamil Originated from travidians (They had come down from North).
There is a big argument which lanuage originated from which.
Frankly speaking I dont know which came out first.
As I said earlier there a are quite a few similarities in southern languages
,
Few say Tamil originated from Telgu and viceversa.

But iam not sure of it.

Literal Meaning of Vanakam is 
    It means "HELLO".

Hai, This is Venu Gopal from Bombay, India

Thanks for the explanation, atticus. I have heard of Kerala, but I couldn't
guess it with the first letter wrong.

Hi, Rahul. I have noticed that many people from India use this spelling "hai",
but in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, NZ, and other English speaking countries,
I have never seen it spelled that way. I think it is a kind of Indian slang
use, like U and Ur, for which we always spell out as you and your.

Thanks == "nandi" (nun-di) in Malayalam :)

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Hi, Catriona , most of the indians usu "Hai" only

Nanna hesaru Jayadev (meaning My name is Jayadev ,this is Kannada language),
one of the Southern Indian languages.Bye Eveybody.

Cool!  Thanks.

HI GOOD DAY!!.

Ellaa koottukarkkum namaskaram. Ente peru Manoj.  Ee grex kudumbathil
angamakan kazhinjathil eniku valre santhoshamundu.Vida!
( Hello friends!  My name is Manoj.  I am very happy to be part of this grex
family.  Good-bye!)
(malayalam)

(swaagatham, manoj) welcome, manoj :-)

hello how are you?

 

hi andrea! welcome to grex!!

Ref: #26 BY STEVE
Hi, Steve! I agree With you on that comment. But not with #28 By Rahul.
This item is the first place where I saw Hai instead of Hi.
And about using "u" and "ur" etc.  It's not done on paper or when you are 
writing formally to someone. Actually I have noticed it only on the party_
channels or talk etc.
Maybe the guys want to convey there ideas faster than their hands can type!!
I have caught myself doing it on party_ or talks.
Bye.

As a staff member, I assure you that we get U and UR a lot from Indian 
users in e-mail. I guess e-mail is thought of as non-written 
communications by many Indians. At first it was a bit distracting. It 
was never confusing, though. It is obviously a local slang, but it seems 
to apply to a large locality, the entire subcontinent. I have never seen 
it coming from anywhere but India.

Another English expression that only seems to originate from India is 
"do the needful." While "needful" is listed in the dictionary as a noun, 
I have never heard it used that way in the US. The equivalent expression 
in American English is "do what is necessary."

It is an English English expression.

Namaskaram Andy (It means due respect in Telegu)

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