50 Ways to Say Thank You

Have you ever wondered how to say Thank You in Japanese (arigato) or Turkish (sogal)? With Thanksgiving only 3 days away, I thought it would be fun to share this list of how to say thank you around the world complete with pronunciations.

Amharic (Ethiopia)
(AH muh seh g’NAH lo)?
Arabic
shukran (SHOO krahn)
Bakweri (SW Cameroon)
(maa SOO maa)
Bangla (Bangladesh)
(DEN no vaht)
Bulgarian
blagodaria (BLAH go dahr YAH)
Cantonese (Hong Kong)
(DOE jeh)
Catalan (Spain)
gracies (GRAH shee esh?)
Dutch
dank ye vell (dahnk ye VELL)
English
thank you, thanks, thank you very much
Esperanto (International)
dankon
Ewe (Togo; Ghana) [pron. EH weh]
akpe (ah[k] PAI)
Farsi (Persian–Iran)
(mo ti SHAH ke RAHM), (MEHR see), (tah sha KOOR)
Fon (Gabon)
ablo (AH blow)
Foulani (West & Central Africa)
diarama (DYAH ra ma)
French
merci (mehr SEE)
Gaelic (Ireland)
mafgarna (MAHF gar nah)?
German
danke schoen (DAHNG ke shern)
Greek
(ef fah ree STAW)
Gujarati (W. India)
aabhar (ahb HAHR)
Hausa (Nigeria, etc.)
nugode (noo GOE dae) or yawa (YAH wahhh…)
Hawaiin
mahalo (mah hal o)
Hebrew
todah (toe DAH), todah rabbah (rah BAH)
Hindi (India)
dhaniawad (DHAN ya wad) See also Urdu.
Italian
grazie (GROTS yeh)
Japanese
arigato (ah ree GAH toe), domo arigato
Kashmiri (N. India/Pakistan/China)
shukria
Kazakh (Kazakhstan)
rakhmat (rakh MAHT)
Korean
gomapsunmida (go mahp SOON mee dah), (kom SAHN mee dah)
Magyar (Hungarian)
(KER se nem)
Mandarin (China)
(shyeh shyeh)
Mina (Gabon)
apke (ah P’? ay)
Nepalese
danievad (DAHN ya vaht)
Polish
(jen KOO yeh)
Portuguese
obrigado (awb ri GAH doe)
Russian
(spah SEE bah)
Serbo-Croatian
hvala (KHVAH la)
Sherpa (Nepal)
thuchiche (too cheh CHEH)
Spanish
gracias (GRAH syahs), muchas gracias (MOO chahs)
Tagalog (Philippines)
salamat (sah LAH maht)
Thai (Thailand)
korp kuhn ka(females)/klap(males)
Taiwanese
do sha (doe SHYAH)
Tajik (Tajikstan)
(tah sha KOOR)
Tibetan
thuchiche (TOO cheh cheh)
Turkish
sogal (sahl), (rakh MAHT?)
Twi (Ghana)
mi da waase (mee dah WAH say)
Urdu (Pakistan)
shukria (SHOO kree ah)
Uzbek (Uzbekikstan)
(rakh MAHT), (tah sha KOOR) (?)
Visaya (Philippines)
gracia (GRAH see ahs)
Welsh (Wales, UK)
diolch yn fawr (DYOLX uhn VOWR) [Pronounce the 'ch' as in German.]
Yiddish (E. Europe, U.S., Israel)
a dank (ah DAHNK)
Yoruba (W. Africa)
a dupe (ah DOO pae) or ocheum (OH cheh oom)

(Source: channel4000.com)