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yes = I'm not kidding - and there are audio files too

Paschal Greetings [srbigham.com]

Now you can hear the Klingon version too

The Slavonic vrsion sounds like the Great Russian pronounciation of Church Slavonic.

U-C

The S cots Gaelic sounds as if it was recorded from a mobile phone - it's almost impossible to pick out - but the Ukrainian is clear

It would be interesting to hear comments from others on the authenticity of the language - anyone volunteer as the Klingon expert ?

In Finnish the accent was a very non-Finnish.
Well, the Orthodox priests in Finland are almost all native Finns - but the Catholic ones mostly Polish origin...

Here's a couple to get you started ...

The Esperanto is spoken well, although the written version has the accent on the "i" when it should be on the "g".

The Arabic sounds bizarre, as if spoken by someone with an Asian accent. It is spoken with very clear enunciation as if the speaker has learnt the language as a foreign language. The phonemes are pronounced correctly. The final vowel of Christ, which would be expected when using the greeting in church or in the streat, is missing however.

I'd guess that the French is spoken by someone of Mediterranean origin.

Danish, German, Greek, Indonesian, Italian sound accurate, although extremely clearly pronounced.

The Hebrew is not pronounced as is modern Hebrew in the state of Israel. An attempt is made to pronounce the word Christ (historico-)correctly.

I don't think the Irish Gaelic is spoken by someone from the Gaeltacht (Irish-speaking areas), although she is Irish.

The written version of the Frisian is not what has been recorded. The spoken phrase is the version I've heard.

Mandarin, Malay, Tamil are accurate. I'm surprised!

An interesting site ...

Wooooo
someone already have this - I thought of doing this in my website...
well it's a great idea...

by the way - the Arabic version sounds as if in the Iraqi dialect
and the funny part is the Hebrew one also sounds Iraqi

Christ is risen ; indeed he is risen - in whichever language you speak

but we are in Christmas no?

The Greek one is perfect.

Nothing against all these, but English is good enough for me.

We should note that in foreign lands, Russia, Greece, etc. only the native tongue is used to give the Paschal greeting.

If it's good enough for them...

No surprise there. As I recall, all foreign born Catholics were expelled in 1912, and there are only 7 parishes listed on one website I checked into. The Catholic population is 7,000 or 0.12%. There are more Catholics as a numper and percentage of the population in Pakistan.

From wikipedia:
So Polish accents? I am not surprised.

This is WONDERFUL!

Might I also note that in Arabic speaking lands, the greeting is both in Arabic as well as in Greek. The same is true of Ethiopia, both Ge'ez as well as Greek and (sometimes) Egyptian Arabic.

And in the US's "Republic of Texas", both English and Spanish. And in Alaska, both in English as well as Yu'pik, Inuit, Athabaskan and Slavonic. And in New England, both English and Canadian French.

Ain't it grand that the Resurrection is everywhere?

Christ is Risen! TRULY risen!!

Dr John

Not yet it ain't Dr John

Another few weeks to go and then I will be singing that wonderful Troparion in UKRAINIAN

Still have memories of 1 Sunday in Lourdes - Church packed with Spanish Ukes and yet several of them swung round as I was singing that Troparion - had been relatively silent till then

Silly Scotsperson! I was talking metaphysically - the Resurrection is to be found all over the earth. (Even during Great Lent!!)

Spanish Ukies? Wow. Sunday dinner at their places must be fun!

Blessings!!

Dr John

The Norwegian sound file is fine. It is clearly read by a native speaker from the Oslo area. The spelling [srbigham.com] is rather old-fashioned, though. It should be:

"Kristus er oppstanden; sannelig Han er oppstanden." [srbigham.com]