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The "I love you" List:
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afrikaans               : Ek het jou liefe
afrikaans               : Ek is lief vir jou
alsacien                : Ich hoan dich gear
amharic                 : Afekrishalehou
arabic                  : Ana Behibak (to a male)
arabic                  : Ana Behibek (to a female)
arabic                  : Ib'n hebbak.
arabic                  : Ana Ba-heb-bak
arabic                  : nhebuk
arabic                  : OHIBOKE    male    to    female
arabic                  : OHIBOKA    femal   to    male
arabic                  : OHIBOKOMA  male or femal to two males or two femals
arabic                  : NOHIBOKE   more than one males or femals to femal
arabic                  : NOHIBOKA   m t o m or f to male
arabic                  : NOHIBOKOMA m t o m or f to two males or tow femals
arabic                  : NOHIBOKOM  m t o m or f to more than two males
arabic                  : NOHIBOKON  m t o m or f to more than two femals
arabic                  : (not standared)
arabic                  : BAHIBAK    femal  to  male
arabic                  : BAHIBIK    male to femal
arabic                  : BENHIBAK   more than one male or female to male
arabic                  : BENHIBIK   m t o m or f to female
arabic                  : BENHIBKOM  m t o m or f to more than one male
assamese                : Moi tomak bhal pau
basc                    : Nere Maitea
batak                   : Holong rohangku di ho
bavarian                : I mog di narrisch gern
bengali                 : Ami tomAy bhAlobAshi
bengali                 : Ami tomake bhalobashi.
berber                  : Lakh tirikh
bicol                   : Namumutan ta ka
bolivian Quechua        : qanta munani
bulgarian               : Obicham te
cambodian               : Bon sro lanh oon
cambodian               : kh_nhaum soro_lahn nhee_ah
canadian French         : Sh'teme  (spoken, sounds like this)
cantonese               : Ngo oi ney
catalan                 : T'estim   (mallorcan)
catalan                 : T'estim molt (I love you a lot)
catalan                 : T'estime  (valencian)
catalan                 : T'estimo  (catalonian)
chinese                 : Wo ie ni
croatian                : LJUBim te
czech                   : miluji te
czech                   : MILUJU TE! (colloquial form)
danish                  : Jeg elsker dig
dutch                   : Ik houd van jou
ecuador Quechua         : canda munani
esperanto               : Mi amas vin
estonian                : Mina armastan sind
estonian                : Ma armastan sind
farsi                   : Tora dust midaram
farsi                   : Asheghetam
farsi (Persian)         : doostat dAram
filipino                : Mahal ka ta
filipino                : Iniibig Kita
finnish                 : Mina" rakastan sinua
flemish                 : Ik zie oe geerne
french                  : Je t'aime
friesian                : Ik hou fan dei (sp?)
gaelic                  : Ta gra agam ort
german                  : Ich liebe Dich
greek                   : s' agapo
greek (old)             : (Ego) philo su    (ego is only needed for emphasis)
gujrati                 : Hoon tane pyar karoochhoon.
hausa                   : Ina sonki
hebrew                  : Ani ochev otach       (male to female)
hebrew                  : Ani ochev otcha       (male to male)
hebrew                  : Ani ochevet otach     (female to female)
hebrew                  : Ani ochevet otcha     (female to male)
hindi                   : Mae tumko peyar kia
hindi                   : My tumko pyar karta hu
hindi                   : Main tumse pyar karta hoon.
hindi                   : Ham Tomche Payer Kortahe
hindi                   : Mai tumse peyar karta hnu.
hokkien                 : Wa ai lu
hopi                    : Nu' umi unangwa'ta
hungarian               : Szeretlek   "yes, peter it's great :)"
hungarian               : Szeretlek te'ged
indi                    : Mai tujhe pyaar kartha hoo
indonesian              : Saja kasih saudari
indonesian              : Saya Cinta Kamu
indonesian              : Saya cinta padamu
indonesian              : Aku cinta padamu
irish                   : taim i' ngra leat
italian                 : ti amo (if it's a relationship/lover/spouse )
italian                 : ti voglio bene (if it's a friend, or relative)
japanese                : Kimi o ai shiteru
japanese                : Watakushi-wa anata-wo ai shimasu
javanese                : Kulo tresno
kiswahili               : Nakupenda
klingon                 : qabang
klingon                 : qaparHa' (depends from where you are in the galaxy)
korean                  : Tangsinul sarang ha yo
korean                  : Nanun tongshinun sarang hamnida
kurdish                 : Ez te hezdikhem (?)
lao                     : Koi muk jao
latin                   : Te amo
latin                   : Vos amo
latin (old)             : (Ego) amo te   (ego, for emphasis)
latvian                 : Es milu tebi
lingala                 : Nalingi yo
lithuanian              : TAVE MYLIU ( ta-ve mee-lyu )
lojban                  : mi do prami
luo                     : Aheri
madrid lingo            : Me molas, tronca
malay                   : Saya cintamu
malay                   : Saya sayangmu
malay/Indonesian        : Aku sayang enkow
malay/Indonesian        : Sayah Chantikan Awah
mandarin                : Wo ai ni
mohawk                  : Konoronhkwa
navaho                  : Ayor anosh'ni
ndebele                 : Niyakutanda
norwegian               : Eg elskar deg  (Nynorsk)
norwegian               : Jeg elsker deg (Bokmaal) (pronounced: yai elske dai)
osetian                 : Aez dae warzyn
pakistani               : Muje se mu habbat hai
persian                 : Tora dost daram
polish                  : Kocham Cie
polish                  : Ja cie kocham
portuguese              : Eu te amo
romanian                : Te iu besc
russian                 : Ya vas lyublyu
russian                 : ya lyublyu tebya
russian                 : ya tebya lyublyu
russian                 : Ya polubeel s'tebya.
scot Gaelic             : Tha gra\dh agam ort   (ascii prob here? help! )
serbian                 : LUBim te.
serbocroatian           : volim te
shona                   : Ndinokuda
sinhalese               : Mama oyata adarei
sioux                   : Techihhila
slovak                  : lubim ta
slovene                 : ljubim te
spanish                 : Te quiero
spanish                 : Te amo
srilankan               : Mama Oyata Arderyi
swahili                 : Naku penda (followed by the person's name)
swedish                 : Jag a"lskar dig
swedish                 : Iaj Alskar Dej
swiss-German            : Ch'ha di ga"rn
syrian/Lebanes          : BHEBBEK (to a female)
syrian/Lebanes          : BHEBBAK (to a male)
tagalog                 : Mahal kita
tamil                   : Naan unni kathilikaran.
tamil                   : Ni yaanai kaadli karen.
tcheque                 : MILUJI TE^
telugu                  : Neenu ninnu pra'mistu'nnanu
telugu/india            : Nenu Ninnu Premistunnanu
thai                    : Ch'an Rak Khun
thai                    : Phom Rak Khun
tunisian                : Ha eh bak                     *
turkish                 : Seni seviyo*rum     (o* means o)
ukrainian               : Ya tebe kokhayu
urdu                    : Mujge tumae mahabbat hai
vietnamese              : Em ye^u anh   (woman to man)
vietnamese              : Toi yeu em
vietnamese              : Anh ye^u em   (man to woman)
vlaams                  : Ik hue van ye
welsh                   : 'Rwy'n dy garu di.
welsh                   : Yr wyf i yn dy garu di (chwi)
yiddish                 : Ich libe dich
yiddish                 : Ich han dich lib
yugoslavian             : Ya te volim
zazi                    : Ezhele hezdege (sp?)
zuni                    : Tom ho' ichema

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Alsacien        -> french/german dialect (live in france, but speak like german)
Assamese        -> language spoken in the state of Assam, India
Batak           -> North Sumatra province of indonesia
Bengali         -> language spoken in the state of West Bengal, India
Bicol           -> Philipin dialect
Gujrati         -> language spoken in the state of Gujrat, India
Hindi           -> language spoken in the nothern states of India
Klingon         -> Spoken in Star Trek
Luo             -> Kenya
Ndebele         -> Zimbabwe
Shona           -> Zimbabwe
Tamil           -> language spoken in the state of Tamil Nadu, India
Vlaams          -> Belgian Dutch
Zazi            -> Kurdic dialect



 I received the following note:

>Dear Windell,
>
>I am somewhat displeased with the Japanese versions of "I love you"
>that you included in your list.  They are a bookish sort of
>thing that a foreigner might say when trying a little bit too hard.
>(The verb used is the one appropriate for telling a third party that
>one is in love.)  If you want to know the cheesey way it is said on
>the evening soap operas (which I have seen too many of):
>
>man:   Suki da.  Suki da!
>(suki pronounced ski)
>woman:  (in tears)  Suki desu.  (more tears)
>(desu pronounced dess)
>
>(That is from a show called "My dream"  Watashi no yume.)
>
>Rose of the Claremont Contingent

I asked my friend Hiro, a Japanese citizen, to respond:

>
>As a native speaker of Japanese, I will relate the following:
>
>There is not one standard way of telling someone "I love you." in Japanese.
>I feel that Japanese is not the best language to convey such feelings;
>French does a much better job.  I seldom say such things and I seldom hear
>such things.  I feel some itch when I hear _any_ equivalent of "I love
>you." in Japanese; I feel the strain in the language which is imposed by
>increasing international communication.  It carrys a certain degree of
>awkwardness (at least to me) no matter how you say and no matter who says
>it.  (Besides, I'd be scared if a foreigner said "Suki desu." to me!)
>
>The expressions that were given are both correct, and can be used
>legitimately, depending on the situation.  I won't give an example of how
>each can be used, because it really is trivial.  If you're not sure which
>one you should use and don't want to look like a fool (as much as it would
>be cute in its own right), use "I love you."  Everyone understands what
>you're trying to say.

Is everything cleared up?  (no, I don't have close friends for *every one*
of those languages-- and I didn't compile the list, so I don't vouch for
the accuracy of any one of them-- so please don't go telling some stranger
in some strage land that you love them and blame me when you 'accidently'
order an extra rare hamburger with sardines on it.)