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Love Language

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

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