How do you say “Welcome” in over 150 languages?

Today, out of nowhere, I got the urge to make some changes to my website. I wanted to show the word “Welcome” in a few different languages (just showing it in English all the time was getting a bit boring).

Now, via a few alterations, every time you refresh the site, “Welcome” will be shown in a new language. I use the following list (reference: Omniglot) for this feature:

'Afrikaans': 'Welkom',
'Albanian': 'Mirë se vjen',
'Alsatian': 'Willkumme',
'Amharic': 'እንኳን ደህና መጣህ',
'Arabic (Modern Standard)': 'أهلاً و سهلاً ',
'Aragonese': 'Bienvenius',
'Armenian(Eastern)': 'Բարի գալուստ',
'Armenian(Western)': 'Բարի՜ եկաք',
'Aromanian': 'Ghini vinit',
'Assamese': 'আদৰণি',
'Asturian': 'Bienvenida',
'Azeri': 'Xoş gəlmişsiniz',
'Banjar': 'Salamat datang',
'Basque': 'Ongi etorri',
'Batak': 'Menjuah-juah! Horas',
'Belarusian': 'Прывiтанне',
'Bengali': 'স্বাগতম',
'Bhojpuri': 'स्वागत बा',
'Bosnian': 'Dobrodošli',
'Breton': 'Degemer mat',
'Catalan': 'Benvingut Benvinguts',
'Cebuano': 'Maayong pag-abot',
'Chamorro': 'Bien binidu',
'Cherokee': 'ᎤᎵᎮᎵᏍᏗ',
'Chinese (Cantonese)': '歡迎',
'Chinese (Hakka)': '歡迎',
'Chinese (Mandarin)': '歡迎光臨 [欢迎光临]',
'Chinese (Shanghainese)': '欢迎',
'Chinese (Taiwanese)': '歡迎光臨',
'Cornish': 'Dynnargh dhywgh',
'Cuyonon': 'Malipayeng Pag-abot',
'Czech': 'Vítáme tĕ',
'Danish': 'Velkommen',
'Dutch': 'Welkom',
'Efik': 'A me di o',
'English': 'Welcome',
'Esperanto': 'Bonvenon',
'Estonian': 'Tere tulemast',
'Ewe': 'Woezor',
'Faroese': 'Vælkomin',
'Finnish': 'Tervetuloa',
'French': 'Bienvenue',
'Frisian (North)': 'Wäljkiimen',
'Frisian (West)': 'Wolkom',
'Friulian': 'Agradît',
'Galician': 'Benvido',
'German': 'Willkommen',
'Greek (Modern)': 'Καλώς Ήρθες',
'Greenlandic': 'Tikilluarit',
'Guarani': 'Eguahé porá',
'Gujarati': 'પધારો',
'Haitian': 'Creole Byen venu',
'Hausa': 'Sannu da zuwa',
'Hawaiian': 'Aloha',
'Hebrew': 'ברוכים הבאים',
'Hindi': 'स्वागत',
'Hungarian': 'Üdvözlet',
'Icelandic': 'Velkomin',
'Igbo': 'nno',
'Indonesian': 'Selamat datang',
'Iñupiaq': 'Qaimarutin',
'Inuktitut': 'ᑐᙵᓱ',
'Irish (Gaelic)': 'Céad míle fáilte',
'Italian': 'Benvenuto',
'Japanese': 'ようこそ',
'Javanese': 'Sugeng rawuh',
'Jèrriais': 'Séyiz les beinv\'nus',
'Kannada': 'ಸುಸ್ವಾಗತ',
'Kazakh': 'Қош келдіңіз',
'Khmer': 'សូម​ស្វាគមន៍',
'Kinyarwanda': 'Murakaza neza',
'Korean': '환영합니다',
'Kurdish (Kurmanji)': 'Be kher hati',
'Kurdish (Sorani)': 'Bi xêr bî',
'Kyrgyz': 'Kosh kelinizder',
'Lakota': 'Taŋyáŋ yahípi',
'Lao': 'ຍິນດີຕ້ອນຮັບ',
'Latin': 'Salve',
'Latvian': 'Laipni lūdzam',
'Limburgish': 'Wilkóm',
'Lithuanian': 'Sveiki atvykę',
'Lojban': 'coi ro do',
'Lozi': 'Mu amuhezwi',
'Luxembourgish': 'Wëllkomm',
'Macedonian': 'Добредојде',
'Malagasy': 'Tonga soa e',
'Malay': 'Selamat datang',
'Malayalam': 'സ്വാഗതം',
'Maltese': 'Merħba',
'Manx (Gaelic)': 'Failt royd',
'Māori': 'Nau mai',
'Marathi': 'स्वागत आहे',
'Mazanderani': 'خش به‌مونی',
'Mi\'kmaq': 'Weltasualuleg',
'Mongolian': 'Тавтай морилогтун',
'Nahuatl': 'Ximopanōltih',
'Ndebele (Northern)': 'Siyalemukela',
'Nepali': 'स्वागतम्',
'Newari / Nepal Bhasa': 'लसकुस',
'Northern Sámi': 'Buresboahtin',
'Norwegian': 'Velkommen',
'Oriya': 'Swaagata',
'Papiamento': 'Bon bini',
'Pashto': 'پخير',
'Persian (Farsi)': 'خوش آمدید',
'Polish': 'Witam',
'Portuguese': 'Bem-vindos',
'Punjabi': 'ਜੀ ਆਇਆ ਨੂੰ।',
'Romanian': 'Bine ai venit',
'Romansh': 'Bainvegni',
'Russian': 'Добро пожаловать',
'Samoan': 'Maliu mai',
'Sardinian': 'Ennidos',
'Scots': 'Welcum',
'Scottish Gaelic': 'Fàilte',
'Serbian': 'Добродошли',
'Sesotho': 'Kenang ka kgotso',
'Shona': 'Mauya',
'Sicilian': 'Binvinutu',
'Sinhala': 'සාදරයෙන් පිලිගන්නවා',
'Slovak': 'Vitaj',
'Slovenian': 'Dobrodošli',
'Somali': 'Soo dhowow',
'Spanish': 'Bienvenidos',
'Swahili': 'Karibuni',
'Swedish': 'Välkomna',
'Swiss German': 'Wilkomme',
'Tagalog': 'Mabuhay',
'Tahitian': 'Mānava',
'Tamil': 'வாங்க (vaangha)',
'Tatar': 'Räxim itegez',
'Telugu': 'సుస్వాగతం (susvāgatam)',
'Tetum': 'Bemvindu',
'Thai': 'ยินดีต้อนรับ (yin dee dtôn ráp)',
'Tibetan': 'ཕེབས་པར་དགའ་བསུ་ཞུ།',
'Tok': 'Pisin Welkam',
'Tongan': 'Talitali fiefia',
'Tswana': 'Le amogetswe',
'Turkish': 'Hoş geldin',
'Ukrainian': 'Ласкаво просимо',
'Urdu': 'خوش آمديد',
'Uzbek': 'Xush kelibsiz',
'Venetian': 'Benvignùo',
'Vietnamese': 'Hoan nghênh',
'Volapük': 'Vekömö',
'Võro': 'Tere tulõmast',
'Walloon': 'Benvnuwe',
'Welsh': 'Croeso',
'Wolof': 'Merhbe',
'Xhosa': 'Siya namkela nonke',
'Yiddish': 'ברוכים־הבאים',
'Yorùbá': 'Ẹ ku abọ',
'Yucatec': 'Maya Kíimak \'oolal',
'Zulu': 'Ngiyanemukela'

Believe it or not, I don’t speak all the languages listed above. So, if you see a mistake or if your language is missing, please leave a comment so that I can keep this list accurate and up-to-date.

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