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This is something I figured some people might enjoy. It's this phrase in many different languages.
I Love You
Afrikaan: Ek is lief vir jou, Ek het jou lief
Amharic: Afekrishalehou
Arabic: Ana behibak (to a male), Ana behibek (to a female)
Basque: Nere Maitea
Bavarian: I mog di narrich gern
Bengali: Ami tomAy bhAlobAshi
Berber: Lakh tirikh
Bicol:* Namumutan ta ka
Bulgarian: Obicham te
Cambodian: Kh_nhaum soro_lahn nhee_ah, Bon sro lanh oon
Catalan: T'estim (mallorcan), T'estime (valencian), T'estimo (catalonian), T'estim molt ("I love you a lot")
Chinese: Ngo oi ney (Cantonese), Wo ai ni (Mandarin), Wo ie ni (universal; both Cantonese and Mandarin)
Croatian: LJUBim te
Czech: Miluji te
Danish: Jeg elsker dig
Dutch: Ik houd van jou
Estonian: Mina armastan sind
Esperanto: Mi amas vin
Farsi: Tora dust midaram
Flemish: Ik zie oe geerne
Finnish: Mina rakastan sinua
French: Je t'aime
Friesian: Ik hou fan dei
Gaelic: Ta gra agam ort
German: Ich liebe dich
Greek: S'ayapo
Hausa: Ina sonki
Hebrew: Anee oheivet otkha (female to male), Anee oheiv otakh (male to female), Ani ohev at (man to woman), Ani ohevet atah (woman to man)
Hindi: Mae tumsey peyar karti hoon (female to male), Mae tumsey peyar karta hoon (male to female)
Hokkien: Wa ai lu
Hopi: Nu'umi unangwa'ta
Hungarian: Szeretlek te'ged
Indonesian: Saya cinta padamu, Saya cinta kamu, Aku tjinta padamu, Saja kasih saudari
Italian: Ti amo
Irish: Taim i'ngra leat
Japanese: Kimi o ai shiteru
Kiswahili: Nakupenda
Korean: Ez te hezdikhem
Latin: Te amo, Vos amo
Lao: Khoi huk chau
Lingala: Nalingi yo
Luo:* Aheri
Madrid lingo: Me molas, tronca
Malay/Indonesian: Sayah chantikan awah, Aku sayang enkow
Malay: Saya cintamu, Saya sayangmu
Mohawk: Konoronhkwa
Navaho: Ayor anosh'ni
Ndebele:* Niyakutanda
Norwegian: Jeg elsker deg (Bokmaal), Eg elskar deg (Nynorski)
Pakistani: Muje se mu habbat hai
Pashto: Ze tahh tuh meena kowum.
Persian: Tora dost daram
Polish: Kocham cie, Yacha kocham
Portugese: Eu te amo
Romanian: Te iu besc
Russian: Ya lyublyu tebya, Ya vas lyublyu
Scot Gaelic: Tha gra'dh agam ort
Serbian: Lubim te
Serbocroatian: Volim te
Shona:* Ndinokuda
Sioux: Techihila
Slovak: Lubim ta
Slovene: Ljubim te
Spanish: Te amo
Swahili: Nakupenda
Swedish: Jag älskar dig
Swiss-German: Ch'ha di gärn
Tagalog:* Mahal kita, Iniibig kita
Thai: Phom rak khun, Ch'an rak khun
Tunisian: Ha eh bak
Turkish: Seni seviyurum
Urdu: Mujge tumsey mahabbat hai
Vietnamese: Anh yêu em (man to woman), Em yêu anh (woman to man), Toi yeu em
Vlaams:* Ik hue van ye
Welsh: 'Rwy'n dy garu di, Yr wyf i yn dy garu di (chwi)
Yiddish: Ikh hob dikh lib
Yugoslavian: Ya te volim
Zazi:* Ezhele hezdege
Zuni: Tom ho'ichema

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Bicol: Philippine dialect
Luo: Kenya
Ndebele: Zimbabwe
Shona: Zimbabwe
Tagalog: Philippine official language
Zazi: Kurdic dialect

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