How do you say Happy New Year in your language?

I am from China. In the South China, it is used Cantonese and it is Kong Hei Fat Choi. However, Mandarin is the official and formal language in China and it is Xin Nian Kuai Le / Gong Xi Fa Chai.

Yes, it's MANIGONG BAGONG TAON in the Philippines but I do not understand really what is MANIGO. In our Ilocano dialect - NAIMBAG A BARO NGA TAWEN! HAPPY NEW YEAR to all of you!

If you say Happy New Year in my language, then first thing is that January is not the first month of the Hindu lunar calendar. All over the world, Hindus celebrate the new year in the middle of April i.e. when the month of Baisakh starts. As a Bengali Hindu I am no different and our new year in 2008 will be on the 15th of April 2008. it’s a very auspicious day for us and on that day we wish everybody ‘Subho Naba Barsha”. Subho means everything good, Naba means new and Barsha means year. So this greeting means ‘I wish everything good to you this new year’. Apart from this, of course we have a lot of fun on 31st Dec/1st Jan. we keep up till 12 and on the stroke of midnight, we call up all our friends and families and wish them. it’s a lot of coming together and enjoying ourselves really.

Filipinos also say "Masaganang Bagong Taon" as a way of saying Happy New Year. It means "have a prosperous new year".

In Mexico, they say Prospero Año Nuevo,Y Felicidad!

Happy New Year in my language is ...... "GEZUAR (Happy) VITIN (year) E RI (New)" :) It's in Albanian language :) So everybody .... Gezuar Vitin e Ri 2008!!!

in my home language, Afrikaans, it is 'gelukkige nuwe jaar' .

Here in Holland it's celebrated on the 1st of January and we always say Gelukkig Nieuw Jaar.

Hello! Sounds like this New Year is coming with full activity. Many things are to happen, I think. Here in Brazil, we say Feliz Ano Novo, being Feliz - Happy; Ano - Year; Novo - New. Yes, the adjectives does not need to come before the word. But it's not wrong if they do. Note that I speak Portuguese: brazilian language does not exists. Respectfully.

LoL!"kong hei fat choi" in Chinese is "????" which means good wish and make more money in the new year. Also people say "???” which means happy new year,and it pronounces as "xin nian hao".

happy new year.... same here.... "Manigong Bagong Taon"....

My mother tongue is telugu..In our telugu we say "nutanna samhashtra shubhakankshalu" for happy new year....

"Nya Saal Mubarak" This is in Urdu Language spoken by Pakistanis. New = Nya Year = Saal Happy = Mubarak Dont get confused by the order :D

Hello there!!! Oh I see we have the same laguage...hehehe... I'm from Philippines too but I'm a Ilongga so New Year in Ilonggo is "Malipayong Bag-ong Tuig". Thanks for the discussion...

Puthandu Vaalthugal.It is Tamil.Easy Ain't it?

Happy New Year in my language is "Selamat Tahun Baru"..its in malay language.

"Selamat Tahun Baru 2008" to you! That's how we say it in our National Language in Malaysia!