Txin maasaatukuq, tuk āššiyaḫḫa, etc.

[Šm Mepuyoš ab Duhen]

Croato-Serbian:
Volim te.

[Left]

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[Nannalu]

Afrikaans:
There is either "ek is lief vir jou", or "ek het jou lief".

Italian:
"Ti amo".

Georgian:
"მიყვარხარ".

[Astraios]

Ojibwe: gizaagi'in (other possibilities are giminwenimin or giwiijide'emin [the latter being literally "I share the same heart as you"])

Is it just Lakota and Ojibwe or do many other American languages have fun idioms for "I love you"?

(The literal translation for the Lakota thečhíȟila is something like I consider you difficult/hard to endure/live/cope with.)

[dhok]

Sano gave me a list on Omniglot here. That's got just about everything I can think of on it, but if for some reason there is something not on there that you have a translation for, post it! Like Tocharian A/B, which it doesn't have. Doesn't have a lot of dead languages, actually, it would seem...

So now I can get working on the T-Shirt, which you won't be able to get for Christmas, but you should be able to get for, oh, Valentine's Day, if you celebrate that. Though I'm not sure about the Aleut...

If anybody knows how to do this, I'd like to find an online custom T-Shirt company that, instead of doing hideous silkscreening, does that wonderful glossy printing you can find on professional T-Shirts.

[johanpeturdam]

Czech: Miluji te.

Slight error, should be: Miluji tě.

[Herr Dunkel]

Bavarian (two varieties I know of):
I liab di - don't trust me on this one
Ij liab di - trust me on this one

[Ser]

Old Spanish: Amo ꞇe, Old French: Aim ꞇe (cf. Galician Ámote, Portuguese Amo-te, which you can find at the link to Omniglot given above) (the ‹t›s are uncial minuscule for both, a convention of Carolingian origins typical of 12th/13th century texts).

Standard Arabic: أحبك ʔuḥibbuka (to a guy), ʔuḥibbuki (to a girl) (both spelled the same).
Cairene Arabic: بحبك baḥibbak (to a guy), baḥibbik (to a girl) (idem).

Cantonese: óh oi léih (also ngóh ngoi léih, for those who conserve syllable-initial /N/) (spelled the same as in Mandarin).

EDIT: Some taken from somewhere in Unilang (and not found at Omniglot).

Cheyenne: Néméhotâtse.

Hixkaryana: Kɨxirohimayaha.

Lushotseed: ʔəsx̌aƛ̕tubicid čəd.

Jamaican Creole: Mi luv yuh

Hebrew: (m to f) אני אוהב אותך (Ani ohev otach) / (f to m) אני אוהבת אותך (Ani ohevet otcha)
(f to f) אני אוהבת אותך (Ani ohevet otach)/ (m to m) אני אוהב אותך (Ani ohev otcha)

Northern Sami: Ráhkistan du.

Interlingua: Io te ama.

Quenya: ‎ [tye-mélanye]

[GrinningManiac]

Whoops

Sorry, I got carried away trying to type the damn thing up in the actual script. Yes, what I wrote was Hindi from the point of a male

Main Tumse Pyaar Kartaa Hoon is the de facto phrase
मैं तुमसे प्यार करता हूँ
Mujhe Tumse Pyaar Hai - shorter and seems to be as correct but you'd want to confirm this with a native.
मुझे तुमसे प्यार है

For a Female only the first one would change and it would change to

Main Tumse Pyaar Kartii Hoon
मैं तुमसे प्यार करती हूँ

[Porphyrogenitos]

Well, if you're interested in including an obscure international auxiliary conlang, here's "I love you" in Neo: "Mi te amar."

[din]

Vietnamese: Anh yêu em.
or if you're a girl
Em yêu anh.

How does that work?

[----]

Kinship terms. Anh is used for the man in the relationship, while em is the woman. I'm still not quite sure how it would work for homosexual relationships of either gender.

[Astraios]

Are there no gender-neutral terms? Otherwise I guess they'd use each other's names, like Straio yêu Theta or whatever.

[----]

There are, but most are rude or impersonal depending on the context of the conversation. You can in fact use someone's name directly as the content of a sentence, even using your own to refer to yourself where it would be strange, possibly even incorrect in English.

The only appropriate gender-neutral terms I can think of are tôi > bạn, or cậu > cháu. Both are somewhat casual, you could use the first pair maybe in the workplace with your colleagues, but definitely not the second pair, which is reserved for close friends. In formal conversation there are no functional gender neutral terms that I'm aware of.

[Qwynegold]

Quenya: ‎ [tye-mélanye]

ORLY?

[Herr Dunkel]

Are there no gender-neutral terms? Otherwise I guess they'd use each other's names, like Straio yêu Theta or whatever.

Sta Rai yêu The Ta is more like Vietnamese - no two syllables are together

[Grimalkin]

Good luck finding word-initial st- in Vietnamese

[Herr Dunkel]

Good luck finding word-initial st- in Vietnamese

Eh, you're right

[tezcatlip0ca]

Sơ Trai?

[----]

Actually Darkgamma, you're wrong. In *native* or *nativized* Vietnamese words, they're only monosyllabic. Names, specific places, etc. are NOT edited to fit the phonotactics of native Vietnamese words. That would just be silly.

[justin]

Ubykh: /tʂʼanə wəzbjan/

[Herra Ratatoskr]

Anglo-Saxon:
Ic lufie þe

[Herr Dunkel]

Actually Darkgamma, you're wrong. In *native* or *nativized* Vietnamese words, they're only monosyllabic. Names, specific places, etc. are NOT edited to fit the phonotactics of native Vietnamese words. That would just be silly.

"Germany" has been "Vietnamised", AFAIK.

[Rodlox]

Actually Darkgamma, you're wrong. In *native* or *nativized* Vietnamese words, they're only monosyllabic. Names, specific places, etc. are NOT edited to fit the phonotactics of native Vietnamese words. That would just be silly.

"Germany" has been "Vietnamised", AFAIK.

I have two thoughts in reaction to that:

1) it's France's revenge.
2) if Germany had been Vietnamized, (why so many scare quotes? don't you believe in Vietnam?), then why didn't you provide the evidence?

[Herr Dunkel]

1) it's France's revenge.

Đức
Also, Pháp has also been Vietnamised, for the glory of Ho Chi Minh!