"Merry Christmas" / "Happy Holidays" / etc. in your native language

[Calidore]

...or that of your ancestry if you're an English speaker.

I can offer "Froehliche Weinachten" (German) and "Nollaig Shona Dhaoibh" (Irish gaelic).

[Buh4Bee]

Merry Christmas, you old litnet forum! A peaceful day to all the souls wondering these halls.
Feliz Navidad!

[vankinh]

happy

[Varenne Rodin]

Happy Holidays, lovely people.

[Maximilianus]

¡Feliz Navidad y Próspero Año Nuevo! (Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year!)

[qimissung]

ᏓᏂᏍᏔᏲᎯᎲ (Danistahohihv, pronounced dah nees dah hoe hee huh) (in Cherokee-I'm one quarter Cherokee)

Hey, Merry Christmas, guys!

[Lokasenna]

This is a bit of a cheat, given that I'm an English-speaking Welshman, but here goes: Nadolig Llawen a Blwyddyn Newydd Dda!

[DocHeart]

XΡΟΝΙΑ ΠΟΛΛΑ ("chronia polla") you bunch of artsy-fartsy, book-kissing, long-word-uttering literature freaks.

http://cl.jroo.me/z3/s/Z/q/d/a.aaa-Why-You-Didnt-Get-Anything-G.jpg

[Buh4Bee]

That is so FUNNY! That's about how I feel now! I'm exhausted! Clean house, gifts, smooth emotional regulation...

God jul (Norwegian)

[qimissung]

XΡΟΝΙΑ ΠΟΛΛΑ ("chronia polla") you bunch of artsy-fartsy, book-kissing, long-word-uttering literature freaks.

http://cl.jroo.me/z3/s/Z/q/d/a.aaa-Why-You-Didnt-Get-Anything-G.jpg


:lol:

[JuniperWoolf]

In Japanese they just say Merii Kurisumasu. I'm not Japanese but it's the only other language I know. The fact that they use a lot of English words and phrases like "Merii Kurisumasu" helps.

[YesNo]

My great grandparents might have spoken some sort of Czech language. Google translate says that would be:

Veselé Vánoce

[Annamariah]

Hyvää joulua ja onnellista uutta vuotta! (Merry Christmas and a happy New Year!)

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

My great grandparents might have spoken some sort of Czech language. Google translate says that would be:

Veselé Vánoce

I'm half Czech (mom's side) but never heard a Christmas greeting in the ancestral tongue, so I'll go with YesNo's greeting.

The other parts are mostly Scottish.

[TurquoiseSunset]

Geseënde Kersfees en 'n voorspoedige nuwe jaar! (Blessed Christmas and a prosperous new year).

[kiki1982]

A little late, but hey, I was in Prague! :D

It's quite similar to Afrikaans, Dutch, so een prettig kerstfeest en een gelukkig nieuwjaar.

In French that would be (as no-one who is FRench has passed ehre up till now) Joyeux Noël et Bonne Année.

The Czech equivalent of 'happy new year' would be shasti novi rok (there should be an upside down accent circonflexe or hacek on the s, but I'm too lazy to go to Word). We once conned someone into wishing everyone a 'strashni novi rok' (which is 'bad new year' :D, we watched all those Slovaks at the time pulling a weird face. Fortunately, the person in question had a German accent, which helped to exhonerate him :p.
My husband developed that joke when he was studying Russian in Moscow with some Americans and they taught them to say 'Ja nie paniedielnik' for 'I don't understand' instead of 'Ja nie panimaju'. The former means 'I am not Monday' as the Russians have no verb 'to be'. :lol:.

So in Norway they still call Christmas by its original Germanic name (Jul).

I love the Japanese one :p

[mona amon]

கிறிஸ்துமஸ் வாழ்த்துகள்

Christumas vaazthukkal - Christmas greetings (Tamil, my mothertongue)

But mostly people just say Happy Christmas!

Kiki, you do get around! :)

[kiki1982]

I don't know, my husband has a penchant for Slavic in general and he loves Prague as much as I love Venice, with that difference that I don't know any proper Italian, but that Czechs mistake my husband for Czech (until he makes cute mistakes). We might spend next summer over there. Hope so, away from BORING Saarburg.

I had never realised you actually were from India. (I guess I don't really pay attention :p).

[Sancho]

Hey. How y'all dune? Mar Chrusmus from Dixie.

Now, put another Yule log on the far and hand me my banjo.

And by the way, lil' missy, that thar is quite the hitch you got in yer git-a-log, I'm tellin' you what.