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Spice up your relationship and get multilingual

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
Tsongana ku rhandza
Tswana
Keyagorata
Turkish
Seni seviyorum
Urdu
Mi-an aap say piyar karta hun
Welsh'Rwy'n dy garu di
YiddishIkh hob dikh lib
Zulu
Ngiya kuthanda

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