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It depends what you call "South African" if you are thinking of South African English then its hello or in local slang HOWZZZIT!
If it is in Xhosa [said kho-sa while clicking your tongue at the top of your mouth] then it is simply Molo [said MO-low] predominant;y the old cape province areas of western, northern and eastern cape.
If in Afrikaans literally means African Language
hello: Asseblief
goodbye: Baai
I think this is how you say it. I got my info from this website
http://www.geocities.com/mailjohan/African.HTML
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This may blow you mind,
You can say... HELLO and GOODBYE
We speak English here in South Africa
***** I agree we do speak English but have a variety of other official languages but it is an English country:)
South African is not a language, so there is no way to say 'hello' in South African. There are 11 official languages in South Africa, as well as dozens more that are not official.
Here is how to say hello in the 11 official South African Languages:
- Afrikaans = Hallo or Hoezit
- English = Hello
- Ndebele = Salibonani
- Northern Sotho = Dumelang
- Sotho = Dumela
- Swazi = Sawubona
- Tsonga = Avuxeni
- Tswana = Dumela
- Venda = Nnda (masculine) or Aa (feminine)
- Xhosa = Molo
- Zulu = Sawubona
In English the most common semi formal way of greeting someone would be Good Morning / Afternoon / Evening, how do you do?
Slioghtly less formally would be "Hello, how are you?"
Slangily it sould be "Howzit?" (from "How is it?"
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