Saying "thank you" might be a formality but at times it means a lot. Here follows the list of "thank you" in different languages:
Language country Thank you
Afrikaans South Africa Baie Dankie (thanks very much - "Buyer Dung-Key")
Afrikaans South Africa Dankie ("Dung-Key")
Albanian Albania Faleminderit
Alsatian Alsace merci
Arabic Algeria saha
Arabic Middle East, North Africa Shukran
Arabic Middle East, North Africa Shukran Gazillan (Thank you very much)
Arabic Middle East, North Africa chokrane
Arabic Oman Shakkran
Arabic Qatar Shakkran
Arabic Tunisia Barak Allahu fiik
Arabic Yemen Shakkran
Armenian Armenia shur-nur-ah-gah-lem
Australian Australia Thoinks Moite!
Azeri Azerbaijan & Iran çox sag olun / tesekkur edirem
Bamanankan Mali a ni kié
Basque Basque (Between Spain & France) Eskerrik asko (Thank you very much)
Belarusian Belarus dziakuju
Bengali India,Bangledesh Dhannyabad
Bishlama Vanuatu tangio tumas
Bobo Burkina Faso a ni kié
Bosnian Bosnia, Herzegovina Hvala
Breton France (Brittany) trugéré / trugaré / trugarez
Bulgarian Bulgaria Blagodaria
Burmese Burma (thint ko) kyay tzu tin pa te
Cantonese China Do jeh (tou yeh) (formal: thanks)
Catalan Andorra, Catalonia, Balearic Islands, Valencia gràcies [grah'-si-es] estandard
Cebuano Philippines salamat
Chechen Chechnya barkal
Cherokee USA Wado
Cherokee (Eastern) USA Skee
Chichewa Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique & Zimbabwe zikomo
Czech Czech Republic Dekuji (deh'-ku-yih)
Danish Denmark tak (tahg)
Dari Afghanistan tashakor
Dogon Mali gha-ana / birepo
Duala Cameroon Na som (thanks)
Dutch Netherlands, Belgium, Suriname dank je wel
English England thanks
English USA & Canada Thank you
Esperanto Eastern & Northern Europe, Eastern Asia, Brazil, Iran Dankon (thank you)
Estonian Estonia Aitäh
Ewé Togo,Ghana Akpé (Appé)
Fang Gabon, Cameroon & Equatorial Guinea akiba
Faroese Faroe Islands (Denmark) takk fyri
Fijian Fiji Vinaka
Finnish Finland kiitos (kee'-toas)
French France, Canada , Belgium, Switzerland, Monaco, Luxembourg merci (mehr-see')
French France, Canada Belgium, Switzerland, Monaco, Luxembourg Merci Madame - Thanks (to a woman)
French France, Canada , Belgium, Switzerland, Monaco, Luxembourg Merci Mademoiselle - Thanks (to a young girl)
French France, Canada, Belgium, Switzerland, Monaco, Luxembourg Merci Monsieur - Thanks (to a man)
Frisian Denmark, Netherlands & Germany dankewol
Friulan Italy (northeast Friuli) gracie
Gallo Upper Brittany & Normandy merkzi
Georgian Georgia(Sakartvelo) madlobt (thank you)
German Germany, Austria. Switzerland Danke (dahn'-kuh)
Greek Greece Efharisto (ef-har-ris-tou')
Guarani Paraguay and Western Brazil Aguije (ah-we-JAY)
Guaraní Ñandeva Paraguay Aguije (ah-we-JAY)
Gujarathi India Aabar
Haitian Haitia mèsi
Hawaiian USA (Hawai) Mahalo
Hebrew Jewish People Toda (toh-dah')
Hindi India Dhanyavaad/Shukriyaa
Iban Malaysia Terima Kasih ("Tay ree ma Kaa seh")
Indonesian Indonesia Terima kasih (teh-ri-mah kah-sih)
Italian Italy, Malta, San Marino, Switzerland, Croatia, Slovenia grazie
Japanese Japan Arigato (ah-ree-gah'-toh)
Kirundi Burundi, Tanzania, Congo-Kinshasa & Uganda murakoze
Korean Korea Kamsa hamaida
Krio Sierra Leone tenki
Kurdish Kurdistan supas (thank you)
Kurdish Turkey, Iraq, Iran & Syria spas
Lao Laos khob chai (deu)
Latin Latium & Ancient Rome gratias agimus (from more than one person)
Latin Latium & Ancient Rome gratias ago (from one person)
Latvian Latvia Paldies
Ligurian Liguria (northern Italy) grassie
Lingala Congo-Kinshasa, Congo-Brazzaville, Angola & Central African Republic matondi
Low saxon Germany & Netherlands bedankt / dank ju wel
Luganda Uganda Waybale (Thank you)
Luxembourgeois Luxembourg merci
Maori New Zealand Kiaora Korua
Mbalangwe Namibia Twali tumela (formal .. also plural)
Micmac Canada & United States (Algonquian) welalin
Myanmar Burma Jae Zu Din Pa De (Thank you)
Nepali Nepal Dhan-ya-vaad
