Merry Christmas to all
Posted Sunday, December 21, 2014 07:50 AM

Season's Greetings!

We grew up in a very diverse city.  New Bedford opened it's heart to people from all over the o ver since its early history.

Here is a list of some of the languages spoken in our old home town.

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English - "Merry Christmas"

French - "Joyeux Noël"

German - "Froehliche Weihnachten"

Greek - "Kala Christouyenna"

Hawaiian - "Mele Kalikimaka"

Hebrew - "Mo'adim Lesimkha. Chena tova"

Iraqi - "Idah Saidan Wa Sanah Jadidah"

Irish - "Nollaig Shona Dhuit"

Italian - "Buone Feste Natalizie"

Lithuanian - "Linksmu Kaledu"

Navajo - "Merry Keshmish"

Norwegian - "God Jul"

Pennsylvania German - "En frehlicher Grischtdaag un en hallich Nei Yaahr"

Polish - "Wesolych Swiat Bozego Narodzenia"

Portuguese - "Feliz Natal" "Boas Festas"(Good Holidays.)

Japanese -" Shinnen omedeto, kurisumasu omedeto. 

Portuguese - "Feliz Natal" "Boas Festas"(Good Holidays.)

Romanian - "Craciun fericit" (Merry Christmas), "Sarbatori Fericite" (Happy Holidays)Thanks Julia!

Russian - "Pozdrevlyayu s prazdnikom Rozhdestva s Novim Godom"

Spanish - "Feliz Navidad"

Swedish - "God Jul and (Och) Ett Gott Nytt År"

Tahitian -Merry Chrismas :" Ia orana te Noera"

and Happy new year is "Ia orana i te mata iti api"

Vietnamese - "Chuc Mung Giang Sinh"

Welsh - "Nadolig Llawen"

Yugoslavian - "Cestitamo Bozic"

***** "And on Earth peace, good will toward men."  Luke 2:14