Holiday greeting credits

North & South American phrases
European
African
Asian
Australian and Pacific Islands
Phrases using Cyrillic & Greek alphabets
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These lists wouldn't have been possible without the help of lots of people. Special mention has to go to Mr. Antoni Llull Marti, Head of the Human Services Department at the Palma de Mallorca Airport in Palma de Mallorca, Spain who was working on a similar project and provided about a quarter of the phrases I have listed. Also, to Mr. Karel Treebus of the Netherlands who shared his extensive list of New Year greetings.

Others who have helped include (in no particular order):

• Chris Evans, GDS Corporation, Cambridge, England
• Paul Grealish, GDS Corporation,Cambridge, England
• Shawn Gilarowski, Nunatsiaq News, Iqaluit, Northwest Territories, Canada
• Florence de Ruiter, Radio New Zealand International, Wellington, N.Z.
• Ana Aizpiri, Euskal Telebista, Durango, Spain
• Ani Sahagian, Diocese of the Armenian Church of America, New York, NY
• Radio Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria
• Romanian Tourist Board, New York, NY
• Finnish Tourist Board, New York, NY
• Kamala Peiris, Embassy of Sri Lanka, Washington, DC
• Radio Beijing, Beijing, China
• Radio Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden
• Prof. Biljana Sljivic-Simsic, Dept. of Slavic and Baltic Languages, University of Illinois at Chicago
• Robert Upper, TransWorld Radio, Manzini, Swaziland
• South African Tourist Board, New York, NY
• Willi Toisuta, PhD., Rector, Satya Wacana Christian Univ., Salatiga, Indonesia
• TransWorld Radio, Agana, Guam
• A. M. Falzon, Embassy of Malta, Washington, DC
• Ivy L. Tembo, Embassy of Malawi, Washington, DC
• Kathleen Conneely, Consulate General of Ireland, Boston, MA
• Guam Visitors Bureau, Agana, Guam
• Maggie Forsythe, Fa'asao High School, Pago Pago, American Samoa
• Fatima Cabrera, Marianas Visitors Bureau, Saipan, Marianas Islands
• Youser Anson, Pohnpei Tourist Commission, Pohnpei, Eastern Caroline Islands
• Noeme T. Morales, Chairman, Dept. of Languages & Literatures, Central Mindanao Univ., Musuan, Philippines
• Dept. of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
• National Broadcasting Company, Boroko, Papua New Guinea
• Lili Ming, Consul, US Embassy, Majuro, Marshall Islands
• D.E.W. Shaw, Principal, Cathedral & John Connon School, Bombay, India
• Madison Nena, Kosrae Division of Tourism, Kosrae, Eastern Caroline Islands
• Takkele Taddese, Chairman, Dept. of Linguistics, Addis Ababa Univ., Ethiopia
• Radio Prague International, Prague, Czech Republic
• Ram Babu Kashyap, Lincoln School, Kathmandu, Nepal
• Bodil Hartmann, Consulate General of Denmark, New York, NY
• Sirje Uriko, Consulate General of Estonia, New York, NY
• Embassy of Latvia, Washington, DC
• Miklavz Borstnik, Embassy of Slovenia, Washington, DC
• Nastaran Saadatmand, NHDOT, Concord, NH
• Sudhindra Luckoor, NHDOT, Concord, NH
• Alexander Ostrovsky, Embassy of Belarus, Washington, DC
• Roza Unaybaeva, Kazakh-American Studies Center, Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
• Nigar Rahman, American International School, Dhaka, Bangladesh
• Jean Paul Rigaut, University of Paris, Paris, France
• Prectice Robinson, Cherokee Language Consultant, Tilsa, OK
• Marianna Nattestad, Postverk Foroya, Torshavn, Faroes Is.
• Kalaallit Allakkeriviat, Ammassalik, Greenland
• Edward Starr, Lakota Studies Dept., Oglala Lakota College, Kyle, SD
• Vera Metcalf, Eskimo Heritage Project, University of Alaska
• Myrtle Kinna, Nome Conv. & Visitors Bureau, Nome, AK
• Richard Hoagland, US Embassy, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
• David Wolff, Acton, MA
• Dale Felkner, KNDN-AM, Farmington, NM
• Helen Howard, Alaska Native Language Center, Fairbanks, AK
• Sara Begay, WOJB-FM, Hayward, WI
• Yukon Native Language Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada
• Susie Drost, The Mongolia Society, Inc., Bloomington, IN
• Mesepa Gaualofa, Office for Tokelau Affairs, Apia, Western Samoa
• Ahmed Adil, Ministry of Tourism, Republic of Maldives
• Beverly Akin, Public Relations, Choctaw Nation, Durant, OK
• Hazel V. Dean-John, Seneca Nation Language Center, Salamanca, NY
• Geraldine Triffitt, Aus. Inst. of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Studies, Australia
• Mustapha Aissaoui, Univ. of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario
• Nima Gyaltsen, Univ. of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta
• Robert C. Brown, Cultural Advisor, Oneida Nation, Oneida, WI
• Tim Thompson, Traditional Advisor, Muscogee Nation, Okmulgee, OK
• Mustapha El Alaoui, Ministry of Tourism, Rabat, Morocco
• Cecilia King, St. Regis Mohawk School, Hogansburg, NY
• Jorge Pedraza, Brazil
• Prasad Chodavarapu, Univ. of Illinois-Urbana, Urbana, IL
• Kurdish Information Network, Netherlands
• Tapani Salminen, Dept. of Finno-Ugrian Studies, U. of Helsinki, Finland
• Howard Aronson, Dept. of Slavic Languages & Lit., Univ. of Chicago
• Reinhard Hahn, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
• Deep Medhi, University of Missouri at Kansas City
• Vladimir Plungian, Inst. of Linguistics, Moscow, Russia
• Shirley Denny, Native Council of Nova Scotia, Truro, NS
• Manfred Ostrowski, Köln, Germany
• Paul Lewis, Intl. Sociolinguistics Coord., Sumner Inst. of Linguistics
• Don & Gretchen Cheney, Sumner Inst. of Linguistics, Guatemala
• C. Randall Daniels-Sakin for the Apalachicola Creek Tribe of Florida
• Wayne Leman, Sumner Institute of Linguistics
• Bill Jancewicz, Naskapi Development Corp.
• Conrad Hurd, Sumner Institute of Linguistics
• Bruce Rigsby, Prof. of Anthropology, Univ. of Queensland, Australia
• Steve Quackenbush, Sumner Institute of Linguistics
• Habaye Ag Mohamed, TIDAWT, Dakar, Senegal
• Prof. George Hewitt, SOAS, Univ. of London
• Marina Kousala Peries, Montreal, Quebec
• Earl Belcourt
• ...and anyone else I inadvertently forgot to list...