Hallå!

Detta, om ordet "Hallå!", hörde jag i en ljudbok som jag lyssnar på just nu:

(Soundcloud-spelaren syns nog inte i din rss-läsare)

Stämmer det som sas? Ja, till viss del. Fast telefon-hallået ska tydligen tillskrivas Thomas Edison. Men det finns faktiskt en hel massa mer att lära sig om ordet "Hallå" och dess olika betydelser och användningsområden, och det kan man göra på Wikipedia. Därifrån plockade jag också nedanstående tabell med olika språks hallåer.

Language	Cognate	Usage
Afrikaans	hallo
Albanian	alo	when answering the telephone
Arabic	آلو ālō	when answering the telephone
Bengali	হ্যালো hêlo	when answering the telephone
Bulgarian	ало (alo)	when answering the telephone
Catalan	hola!	friendly (informal) greeting
Croatian	halo?	when answering the telephone
Czech	Haló?	when answering the telephone
Danish	hallo!	when answering the telephone
Dutch	hallo!	general greeting, normally not used for answering the telephone.
Esperanto	ha lo?	when answering the telephone
Estonian	hallo; halloo	when answering the telephone
Finnish	haloo?	when answering the telephone
French	allô?	when answering the telephone
German	Hallo!
Gujarati	hello!	when answering the telephone
Hungarian	helló!	friendly (informal) greeting
	halló!	when answering the telephone
Hebrew	הָלוֹ (hallo)	when answering the telephone / friendly (informal) greeting
North Indians	Haanjee!	when answering the telephone
Icelandic	Halló	when answering the telephone
Irish	Heileo	Rarely used
Japanese	ハロー　(harō)	friendly (informal) greeting
Kannada	halloa	when answering the telephone
Khmer	allô	when answering the telephone
Lithuanian	alio?	when answering the telephone
Macedonian	ало (alo)	when answering the telephone
Marathi	hello	when answering the telephone
Norwegian	hallo!	general greeting
Persian	الو alo	when answering the telephone
Polish	halo	when answering the telephone
Portuguese	alô?	when answering the telephone (Brazil only)
Romanian	alo	when answering the telephone
Russian	алло (allo), алё	when answering the telephone
Serbian	хало/halo	when answering the telephone
Spanish	¡hola!	friendly (informal) greeting
	¿aló?	(Latin America) when answering the telephone
Swedish	hallå!
Tagalog	helo!
Turkish	alo!	when answering the telephone
Vietnamese	a lô!	when answering the telephone

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Update: Via Mamman med skafferiet hittar jag: