Little languages

The 11 largest languages in the world account for approximately half the world’s population (Chinese, English, Hindi/Urdu, Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese, Russian, Bengali, Japanese, German and French). Most of the world’s languages are spoken by relatively few people: the median number of speakers is probably around 5-6,000. 95% of the world’s spoken languages have fewer than 1 million native users; half of all the languages have fewer than 10,000. 4% of languages are spoken by 96% of the world’s population.

Single Letter Words

Among single letter words to be found among the world’s languages are the following:

u (Samoan) an enlarged land snail
u (Xeta, Brazil) to eat animal meat
u (Burmese) a male over forty-five (literally uncle)
i (Korean) a tooth
m (Yakut, Siberia) a bear; an ancestral spirit

Frogs

In Afrikaans frogs go kwaak-kwaak : in Estonian: krooks-krooks ; in the Munduruku tribe of Brazil: korekorekore and in Argentinian Spanish: berp!

OLA

The first and most essential word in all languages is surely ‘hello’, the word that enables one human being to converse with another.

allillanchu (Quechuan, Peru)
bok (Croatian)
dumela (Tswana, Zaire)
ei je (Bengali)
goddag (Danish)
helele (SeSetho, Southern Africa)
jambo (Swahili)
kaixo (Basque)
molo (Xhosa, South Africa)
ni hao (Mandarin)
ola (Galician, Spain)
tere (Estonian)
xin chao (Vietnamese)
zdravo (Bosnian)

Does anyone know any others in this vein ?

Say Cheese

When photographers attempt to bring out our smiling faces by asking us to "Say Cheese", many countries appear to follow suit with English equivalents. In Spanish however they say patata (potato), in Argentinian Spanish whisky, in French steak frites, in Serbia ptica (bird) and in Danish appelsin (orange). Do you know of any other varieties from around the world's languages?