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Acts Song #8 - Waley Kum. (tune: we sail the ocean blue) There are currently over six THOUSAND spoken languages. This song tells how to say hello in thirty-four of them!

Waley-kum, waley-kum to you. in Pakistan, how do you do? Every language has a phrase; let's learn to say a few. In Afrikaans, they say, hayee, in Arabic, marhaban. In Basque, kaishow, in Chinese nee how; Egyptian, sulalm ula kumay. Mambo in congo, in Swahili, jambo; The Greeks, yahsoo, Mongolian, saynoo. Namaskaram in Malayalam! Bonjour (French!), Shalom (Hebrew!) and hola (Spanish!), Guten tag (German), Preevyet (Russian!), aloha (Hawaiian!). Ciao, Italian; bok, Croatian; Ahnyan hasayyo, Korean. Namusthei is how we greet you in Hindi when we meet you; Sawubona in Zulu, we say hello to you! In Ja-PAN, you know, it's kong-NEE-CHEE-WAH; the Cree, Dawn-sAY, and the Swedes say SHA; Romanian, SaLUT, Budapest, Yoh na-PUT; Armenian "Ba-REV", Bavarian, "Sair-VOOS", CHESH-ch, say the Poles, it's G'DAY down under; Turkish: Nevar, in LA-OS "Sa-bai-dee"; but in IN-DO-NE-SIA, "SA-la-MAT PA-GEE!"