Hello

Around the globe, we all say hello differently. Mental Floss celebrates that fact highlighting some of those differences.

From the piece...

2. Have you eaten rice?
喂, 食咗飯未呀?; wei, sik jor fan mei a?

Language: Cantonese.
Where it comes from: Mostly southern China. The phrase, or derivations of it—“have you eaten?”—is also used in several other southeast Asian languages.
3. Are you getting old?
A po plakesh?

Language: Albanian
Where it comes from: Kosovars and Macedonian Albanians also use the common expressions, “A je lodhë?” and “A je mërzitë?” which literally translate to, “Are you tired? Are you upset?” in place of “What’s up?”