26th September - European Day of Languages! How do you say "Hello" in your language?

Thanks for that explanation.

So, "burgoaistic" is an expression for a fellow that origins from the meaning of a "citizen", and therefore people frowned during the communist era, in which expressions connected to meaning of "people" or "comrade" was more common and accepted?

not true theoretically, but exactly that in practice. city was considered ''corrupted''. later was all that polished in advanced dogma.

Was latin some kinda secret language of rebellish intellectuals?

no, ''old-time'' city dialect was, so everybody can feel part of that silent resistance. latin was abandoned, used in university circles only. problem with city dialect was that a lot of germanisms was incorporated in lingo, and war against germans was just over. it was 1945, zagreb was just liberated, armed partisans was on the street. so even people who was part of that liberation was careful how they speak in the street. for clarification, it wasn't resistance against partisans, but against politics. even then actions was started to minimise croatian role in anti-fascist war and put the accent on defeated quisling forces as main croatian choice. it was absurd, of course, anti-nazi strugle started in croatia 1941, there was 10 croatian brigades out of 12 yugoslavian. but in long terms it succeeded. things boiled over in 1971 in student rebellions in ''croatian spring''. police crushed that movement and hundreds of croatian students and intelectuals was imprisoned. croatia and slovenia jumped the first opportunity in 1989 to step out of yugoslavia and unfortunately once again it was payed in blood.

I don't speak latin myself, but I guess "amice" mean the same as the spanish "amigo".

of course. spanish, italian, french, portuguese, they all have direct latin root

 

Hej / hejsan / tja / tjena - hi

Goddag - hello, but it actually means "good day"

 

um... hello, hi, aiight, hey, hiya etc etc

Most of the time I just say Konnichiwa

 

'Merhaba' means Hello in Turkish or you could use 'Neyapisin' which means 'what's up.'

 

Not from the Motherland (Ukraine), but learning it at the Uni.

Dobreden (good day) or Pryvit (like Hi! or Hey! or what-have-you)

 

in Macedonia we say ZDRAVO=hello

 

DUDE! What's up? LOL