Txin maasaatukuq, tuk āššiyaḫḫa, etc.

[----]

Those are native Vietnamese words.

[Skomakar'n]

Croato-Serbian:
Volim te.

I think I've heard of the Bosnian preference being 'ja te volim'. Is this true? Is this only in cheesy songs?

[Arzena]

Lithuanian:

Aš tave myliu.

[Herr Dunkel]

Croato-Serbian:
Volim te.

I think I've heard of the Bosnian preference being 'ja te volim'. Is this true? Is this only in cheesy songs?

I think it's pretty much the same.
"Ja te volim" = "volim te" with pro-drop since the verb is already inflected for person.
I'd say that "volim te" is more casual.

[Ser]

Quenya: ‎ [tye-mélanye]

ORLY?

Yeah, whoever posted that used some very particular font, as all the characters are from the Private Use Area of Unicode. I think Code2000 would support it? Not sure (I don't have it installed).

[Nortaneous]

Quenya: ‎ [tye-mélanye]

ORLY?

Yeah, whoever posted that used some very particular font, as all the characters are from the Private Use Area of Unicode. I think Code2000 would support it? Not sure (I don't have it installed).

Yes, Code2000. It shows up fine for me.

[linguoboy]

Osage: wíohta [Please don't ask me to write it in the stupid new alphabet.]
Lebanese Arabic: (Ana) bhibbak [to a male]/bhibbik [to a female].
Lower Sorbian: Ja śi lubujom.
Upper Sorbian: Ja će lubuju.

[dhok]

Right...now I need to find a good T-shirt company. The problem with Cafépress is, they silkscreen, and small fonts don't come out well. Does anybody know a site that does nice printing with the glossy college T-Shirt stuff?

Also, Osage alphabet: what the hell?

[Ser]

Lebanese Arabic: (Ana) bhibbak [to a male]/bhibbik [to a female].

...I think it should be made clear that those ‹h›s are supposed to be /ħ/, so bḥibb-ak/ik or b7ibb-ak/ik or w/e.

[dhok]

The following list will be updated as I get new data or strike languages out. It is sorted, sometimes by family, sometimes by geography. You can help. Currently it assumes a man talking to a woman, but once this is done it will be edited to produce other versions.

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INDO-EUROPEAN (78)
spanish/latin::		te amo
portuguese::		amo-te
galician::			ámote
catalan::			t'estimo
old occitan		t'am
provençal			t'aimi
french			je t'aime
romansh			jeu carezel tei
walloon			dji t'veû vol'tî
italian			ti amo
corsican			amu tè
romanian			te iubesc
sardinian			deo t'amu
old irish			notcharaimm
irish			gráim thú
scottish gaelic		tha gaol agam ort
manx			ta graih aym ort
old welsh			ti caraf
modern welsh		dw i'n dy garu di
cornish			my a'th kar
breton			my az kar
old high german		
german			ich liebe dich
yiddish			איך האָב דיך ליב
dutch			ik hou van je
afrikaans			ek het jou lief
frisian			ick heb di leev
old english		ic lufie þe
old norse			ek elska þik
icelandic			ég elska þig
faroese			eg elski teg
nynorsk			eg elskar deg
danish			jeg elsker dig
swedish			jag älskar dig
gothic			
ancient greek		σʹἔραμαι
modern greek		σʹαγαπώ
tocharian a		
tocharian b
polish			kocham cię
czech			miluji tě
slovak			ľúbim ťa
lower sorbian		ja śi lubujom
upper sorbian		ja će lubuju
old church slavonic		
slovene			ljubim te
croatian			volim te
serbian			волим те
macedonian		те љубам
bulgarian			обичам те
russian			я тебя любю
ukrainian			я тебе кохаю
belarussian		я цябе кохаю
old prussian		as tien milē
lithuanian			aš tave myliu
latvian			es tevi mīliu
albanian			të dua
armenian			սիրում եմ քեզ
old persian		
farsi			دوست دارم
dari			
tajik
kurdish			ji te hez dikîm
avestan			
pashto			زه ستا سره مينه کوم
sanskrit			त्वँ लुन्ह्यामि
sinhala			මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි
marathi			माझ तुइयावर प्रेम आहे
punjabi			ਮੈਂ ਤੈਨੂੰ ਪਿਆਰ ਕਰਦਾ ਹਾਂ।
sindhi			
gujarati			હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું
romani
hindi			मैं तुम्हैं बहुत चाहता हुँ
urdu			میں آپ سے* محبت کَرتا ہوں
nepali			म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु।
oriya
assamese
bengali			আমি আপনাকে ভালোবাসি
hittite			tuk āššiyaḫḫa

BASQUE(1)
basque			maite zaitut

URALIC(6)
finnish			rakastan sinua
estonian			ma armastan sind
mordvin
north sámi		ráhkistan du
hungarian			szeretlek
nenets

ALTAIC(14)
chuvash			
turkish			seni seviyorum
turkmen			
azerbaijani		mən səni sevirəm
uyghur
uzbek			men seni sevaman
bashkir			
tatar			min sini yaratam
kazakh			мен сені сүйемін
kyrghyz			
yakut
classical mongolian		
modern mongolian		би чамд хайртай 
manchu			bi shimbe hairambi

NW CAUCASIAN (1)
ubykh			ċ'anə wəzbyan

KARTVELIAN (1)
georgian			მიყვარხარ

AFRO-ASIATIC (17)
akkadian
aramaic			
hebrew			אני אוהב אותך
arabic			أحبك
maltese			inħobbok
syriac
coptic			
geez			
tigrinya			ይፈትወካ`የ
amharic			አፈቅርሀለሁ።
gurage		
shilha
kabyle
walamo
somali			waan ku jecelahay
oromo
hausa

NILO-SAHARAN (4)
luo			aheri
dinka
kanuri
songhai

NIGER-CONGO (24)
fulani
wolof			sopp na la
twi
ewe	
fong
yoruba			mo nifẹẹ rẹ
edo
ibo
fang
lingala
kikuyu
swahili			ninakubpenda
kikongo
luganda
rwanda			ndagukunda
shona			ndinokuda
setswana			ke a go rata
n. sotho		
sesotho			ke u rata
xhosa			ndiya kuthanda
zulu/ndebele		ngiyakuthanda
swazi			ngiyakutsandza
tsonga			ndza ku rhandza

KHOISAN (2)
!kung
!xóõ

DRAVIDIAN (4)
telugu			నేను నిన్ను ప్రేమిస్తున్నాను
kannada			ನಾ ನಿನ್ನ ಪ್ರೀತಿಸ್ತೀನಿ 
tamil			நான் உன்னை காதலிக்கிறேன்
malayalam		ഞാന്‍ നിന്നെ പ്രേമിക്കുന്നു

BURUSHASKI (1)
burushaski

SINO-TIBETAN (3)
simplified chinese			我爱你
traditional chinese			我愛你
tibetan				ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་
burmese		

MIAO-YAO (2)
hmong
mien

KOREAN (1)
korean				사랑해 

AINU (1)
ainu				kuani e omap ash

JAPONIC (2)
japanese				君が好きだ
okinawan				悲さんどー

TAI-KADAI (4)
li				 
thai				ผมรักคุณ 
lao
zhuang

AUSTRO-ASIATIC (3)
vietnamese			anh yêu em
khmer				បងស្រណញ់ឣូន
mundari				

ANDAMANESE (1)
andamanese

AUSTRONESIAN (29)
chamorro				hu guiaya hao
palauan				a kultoir er kau
yapese				gu ba'adag em
ilokano				ayayatenka
tagalog				mahal kita
cebuano				gihigugma ko ikaw
ilonggo				palangga ko ikaw
kapampangan			kaluguran daka
buginese				
malagasy				
kapuas			
javanese				aku tresnasliramu
sundanese			
balinese
batak
minangkabau
malay				saya sayang kamu
achinese				
timorese
nauruan
gilbertese
marshallese
fijian				au domoni iko
tongan				'oku ou 'ofa 'ia koe
samoan				au te alofa ia te oe
rapanui				
tahitian			
maori				kei te aroha au ki a koe
hawai'ian				aloha au ia 'oe

ESKALEUT (5)
aleut				txin maasaatukuq
central AK yupik			kenkamken
iñupiaq				nakuagigikpin
inuktitut				ᓇᒡᓕᒋᕙᒋᑦ
greenlandic			aasavakkit

NA-DENÉ (10)
haida
tlingit
eyak
ahtna
dena'ina
slave
dogrib
gwich'in
navajo			ayóó’áníínísh’ní
western apache

ALGONQUIAN (12)
blackfoot			kitsiikákomimmo
cheyenne			néméhotâtse
arapaho			bíxoo3é3en	
ojibwe			gizaagi'in
plains cree		ᑭᓵᑭᐦᐃᑎᐣ
miami-illinois		teepaalilaani
mohegan			kuwômôyush
passamaquoddy-malicete	koselomol
nipmuck			keȣamanlis
wampanoag		kuwômônush
mikmaq			kesalul
innu			tshemenuadeden

WAKASHAN (2)
kwakiutl
nootka

SALISHAN (8)
bella coola
comox
squamish
halkomelem
lushootseed		ʔəsx̌aƛ̕tubicid čəd
lilooet
thompson
spokane

SIOUAN (4)
lakota			thečhíȟila
omaha
osage			wíohta
crow

CADDOAN (2)
caddo
wichita

IROQUOIAN (4)
seneca			
cayuga
mohawk
cherokee			ᎬᎨᏳᎢ 

KIOWA-TANOAN (1)
kiowa

MUSKOGEAN (5)
choctaw		
chickasaw
alabama
koasati
creek

OTHER NORTH AMERICAN (4)
sm'algyax
nez percé
zuñi
tunica

UTO-AZTECAN (1)
nahuatl

MAYAN (2)
tzotzil
quiché

OTO-MANGUEAN (2)
mixtec
zapotec

SOUTH AMERICAN (8)
yanomami
quechua
aymara
classical tupi
guarani			rojhayhû
carib
pirahã
hixkaryana		kɨxirohimayaha

AUSTRALIAN (4)
pitjantjatjara
dyirbal
yidiny
kayardild

CREOLES (3)
tok pisin			mi lavim yu
bislama			
hatian creole

CONLANGS (8)
esperanto			mi amas vin
ido	
volapük			läfob oli
klingon
verdurian			et lübao
quenya
sindarin
lojban			mi do prami

[clawgrip]

Japanese
君が好きだ。
Kimi ga suki da.

IIRC, kimi is sort of a mannish way to address the person you love. If you're a woman, you're more likely to use あなた anata, I believe. You can avoid the problem altogether by not including any "pronoun" — in other words, just 好きだ。(Suki da.)

What about 愛してる?

I've read that it sounds corny/overly dramatic/soap opera-ish.

If you are talking to someone you are already in a relationship with, 愛してる ai shite ru is normal and not corny at all (I speak not from reading or hearsay but from personal experience on both the giving and receiving end of this phrase). Otherwise you would probably use (君のこと・あなたのこと)好きだよ (kimi no koto / anata no koto) suki da yo as mentioned before.

[brandrinn]

Not sure if it's been stated before, but
Korean: sarang hae(yo) 사랑 해(요) (yo is roughly analogous to Japanese -masu, but not really)
Russian: tebja ljublju (no cyrrillic support on work computer, unfortunately)

[Echobeats]

Take some of these with a grain of salt..
Southern Sotho: Kēa u rata.

I believe that should be "Ke u rata" – you've used the emphatic form of "I", rather like saying "yo te quiero" in Spanish. However, you should take that with just as much salt as Xephyr's offerings.

[Radagast revived]

West Greenlandic: Asavakkit.

Aasavakkit.

[merijn]

Take some of these with a grain of salt..
Southern Sotho: Kēa u rata.

I believe that should be "Ke u rata" – you've used the emphatic form of "I", rather like saying "yo te quiero" in Spanish. However, you should take that with just as much salt as Xephyr's offerings.

Take this with an even bigger grain of salt, but I recall that a preceded by the subject concord in Sotho is similar to the disjoint present tense ya in Nguni languages, and you use that disjoint form if nothing follows the verb. I cannot find anything on the disjoint verb form in Southern Sotho at the moment tho.

[Pole, the]

Polish: kocham cię / kocham ciebie (emphasis on 2nd person) / ja cię kocham (emphasis on 1st person)

Volapük: löfob oli / löfob ori (formal)

[brandrinn]

Ainu: Kuani e omap ash (not sure if ash is really necessary here)

[Wattmann]

Ég elska þig is my favourite.
Icelandic has this flowy sound that turns me on so much x3

[Whimemsz]

Dhokarena that's kind of a bizarre list in places, at least for the languages I'm familiar with (also there's some outdated names in there too, like within Athabaskan you've got "Tanaina" [now usually called "Dena'ina"], but then you have a modern name like "Gwich’in" [formerly "Kutchin"]; that's not a big deal though).

Anyway, for Algonquian, I'm not sure why you'd want both Western Ojibwe and Algonquin, which are two members of the Ojibwe dialect chain (the term in both is just gizaagi'in (with /h/ instead of glottal stop in Algonquin) -- although in Algonquin that would normally be written kisàkihin), especially since you only want one for "Cree" which is an even more diverse dialect chain than Ojibwe is. Also, do you want the Algonquian, Eskimo-Aleut, and Athabaskan languages which use Aboriginal Syllabics to be written in syllabics or in Roman characters?

By "Tsimshian" I'm guessing you mean Coast Tsimshian (aka Sm'algyax)?

You list Uto-Aztecan as containing two languages you're interested in, but the only language given is Nahuatl (which incidentally is also a large group of dialects~languages, though you probably mean Classical Nahuatl).


ANYHOO, all that being said, several more Algonquian languages, beyond the ones I've already given, and you can choose which ones you want:

Blackfoot: kitsiikákomimmo
Cheyenne: néméhotâtse
Loup A [= Nipmuck]: keȣamanlis [= */kəwã:mã:ləs/] (you can also spell this ke8amanlis if you want to be lame)
Maliseet-Passamaquoddy: koselomol [= /kəsεləməl/]
Massachusett [= Wampanoag]: kuwômônush (variously spelled; this is the orthography used by the modern Wampanoag revival movement) [= */kəwã:mã:nəʃ/]
Miami-Illinois: teepaalilaani
Mohegan: kuwômôyush (variously spelled) [= */kəwã:mã:jəʃ/]

[dhok]

Dhokarena that's kind of a bizarre list in places, at least for the languages I'm familiar with (also there's some outdated names in there too, like within Athabaskan you've got "Tanaina" [now usually called "Dena'ina"], but then you have a modern name like "Gwich’in" [formerly "Kutchin"]; that's not a big deal though).

Anyway, for Algonquian, I'm not sure why you'd want both Western Ojibwe and Algonquin, which are two members of the Ojibwe dialect chain (the term in both is just gizaagi'in (with /h/ instead of glottal stop in Algonquin) -- although in Algonquin that would normally be written kisàkihin), especially since you only want one for "Cree" which is an even more diverse dialect chain than Ojibwe is. Also, do you want the Algonquian, Eskimo-Aleut, and Athabaskan languages which use Aboriginal Syllabics to be written in syllabics or in Roman characters?

By "Tsimshian" I'm guessing you mean Coast Tsimshian (aka Sm'algyax)?

You list Uto-Aztecan as containing two languages you're interested in, but the only language given is Nahuatl (which incidentally is also a large group of dialects~languages, though you probably mean Classical Nahuatl).


ANYHOO, all that being said, several more Algonquian languages, beyond the ones I've already given, and you can choose which ones you want:

Blackfoot: kitsiikákomimmo
Cheyenne: néméhotâtse
Loup A [= Nipmuck]: keȣamanlis [= */kəwã:mã:ləs/] (you can also spell this ke8amanlis if you want to be lame)
Maliseet-Passamaquoddy: koselomol [= /kəsεləməl/]
Massachusett [= Wampanoag]: kuwômônush (variously spelled; this is the orthography used by the modern Wampanoag revival movement) [= */kəwã:mã:nəʃ/]
Miami-Illinois: teepaalilaani
Mohegan: kuwômôyush (variously spelled) [= */kəwã:mã:jəʃ/]

Yes, sorry about those. The 2 on Uto-Aztecan was a typo, so I just want Nahuatl. And I'll remove Algonquin. Since the names of the languages don't show up on the shirt, it doesn't really matter as to names- though I'll change the list name to Dena'ina, and I do mean Sm'algyax. Which Cree should I use... I assume Plains Cree, since that's the one with the most speakers and the biggest dictionary? As for those written in syllabics, yes, I'd like the syllabics.

Thanks so much!

[Xephyr]

Man, Nahuatl is like, the least-interesting of the Uto-Aztecan languages.

[dhok]

What others should I do, then? I don't know a whole lot about the Uto-Aztecan clan...I suppose I could include Pipil.

I'm also gonna have to cut out a bunch of languages here where it's unlikely we'll be able to get a translation, if nothing else because I've got 282 entries right now and that may be just too much for a T-Shirt (the non-Lushootseed Salishes are looking like good candidates at the moment)...I can always re-release the T-Shirt later if need be- in fact I'll have to make 4 different versions anyway. Right now I'm doing a guy to girlfriend shirt, but I'll have to follow that up with a T-Shirt for straight gals and gay guys...

[----]

In Navajo it's Ayóó’áníínísh’ní. It has no implication of gender, so it works with any pairing of two people.

I saw !Xóõ on there, and with my very rudimentary knowledge of it, and wiktionary's help, I've produced this:
N̄ ń bà ǀnàm kān āhʻā.
There's supposed to be a tilde on the first n; It doesn't display correctly on my screen and I don't know if it will on all yours.

EDIT: oops, forgot a particle in the !Xóõ translation. Make sure to get this edited one.

[Radagast revived]

Nahuatl is nimitztlazohtla.

Acazulco Otomi is kṹndokʼigɑ́

[Radagast revived]

Man, Nahuatl is like, the least-interesting of the Uto-Aztecan languages.

Still dissing Nahuatl Xephyr... tsk tsk