TomThomson (12/28/2014)
Eirikur Eiriksson (12/26/2014)
Gleðileg jól og farsælt nýtt ár!Merry Christmas and a happy new year!
Buon Natale e felice anno nuovo!
Frohe weihnachten und ein gutes neues jahr!
Glædelig jul og godt nytår
God Jul och Gott Nytt År!
God jul og godt nytt år!
Hyvää joulua ja onnellista uutta vuotta!
The second, third, and fourth are rather easy for me: English, Italian, German.
Four of the other 5 are obviously North Germanic, and the use of "ð" in the first one makes me think it's Icelandic, which would make the 5th one Danish (because it looks more like the Icelandic than either of the others). The 6th and 7th then must be Swedish and Norwegian, but I haven't a clue which is which (could very easily find out, or course, but that would be cheating). The 8th is Finnish, I think - firstly because of the geography - where Finland is and where four of the other languages are from, secondly because I've seen things with many doubled vowels and doubled consonants before and they were Finnish, and thirdly because joula looks as if it might be a borrowing from jul/Jul/jól/yule and Finland is close to places with Germanic languages so its language will probably have taken in many Germanic words and I can see that the language is not anything celtic, slavic or romance which eliminates the other languages having a germanic neighbour.
Brilliant Tom and spot on. A tip to distinguish between Norwegian and Swedish, Norwegian has more of a Danish spelling while Swedish has a little "German" to it;-)
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Here are some more languages people can guess at:-
Nollaig chrìdheil agus bliadhna mhath ùr
Nollaig faoi shéan agus ath-bhliain faoi shonas
Nollick ghennal as blein vie noa
Bonan Kristnaskon kaj felican novan jaron
Nadolig llawen a blwyddyn newydd dda
Nadelik looan na looan blethen noweth
Nedeleg laouen na bloavezh mat
Bon Nadal i un bon any nou
I'm going to give this a shot, first the rather obvious ones, one and two are Scottish and Irish, fourth is Esperanto, fifth Welsh and the eight is somewhere between Spanish, Neapolitan and Italian so I'm guessing it's Katalan.
The third is more like northern Gaelic while the sixth and the seventh have a more southern feel to it, my guess is somewhere around the English Channel.