"By the way I am from Nepal. 

 ==Translations== 
 Does this section really belong on [i]Wikipedia[/i] - I thought that translations of words should be on [i]Wiktionary[/i]? Wiktionary deals with the word, Wikipedia deals with what the word means.   

 :See WP:IAR.  Simply put, Hello is a special case.  It's a basic word that everyone learns that is often used as the example of other languages. In a sense, it is the ""base"" word of all human communication.  Heck, there are children's posters up in preschools with ""Hello"" in other languages; it's not uncommon that the only word of a foreign language someone knows is ""Hello"" in that language.  It's interesting from an encyclopedic perspective to see what these versions are, and perhaps go deeper into that issue.  That said, the topic of ""Hello"" and its translations may not be appropriate for this article after all, but only because it might be worthy of splitting off from the main article and having a list/article all to itself.   

 :: Yes, Hello is a basic special word BUT the so-called translations have nothing to do with the word Hello. They are merely greetings not related to Hello at all and I think they should be removed. But if they are to stay, they would belong under List of greetings in other languages AND Ways to answer the telephone in other languages or whatever. It just so happens that in English you greet people and answer the phone with the same word, but as you can see in other languages this is NOT the case.   

 :: By the way, if you look at the interwiki links I think the French is wrong as it goes to (in English) Good day. The Chinese is correct as it goes to (in English) Hello (linguistics), and describes the English word and how it is being used in Chinese.   

 I removed the Welsh ""Translations"", since they meant ""Have sex with me"" and ""Suck my penis"", respectively.  

 == Encarta == 
 To quote the article: 

 :According to Microsoft Encarta Dictionary (2004), the origin of hello is uncertain, but probably it ultimately comes from French holá (literally ‘stop there!’, used to attract attention). 

 Problem is, Encarta is, by definition, a secondary source. Do we have a good primary source for this? -  

 :Actually I'm thoroughly skeptical regarding the validity of such a claim, mainly because 'ho' does not literally translate into 'stop' and is in fact more of an outcry than an actual word. It is comparable to 'oy' in english or 'hé' in dutch in usage (though not in it's actually meaning) as a means of drawing someone's attention and (in the case of 'ho') in order to get people to stop. The fact that 'holá' is spanish and the french use 'allo' only strengthens my skepcis.   
 ::I've moved this claim to the Hallo section and cited it from The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language which claims it is Old French and a forerunner of Hallo (hence the move).   

 == Translations, again == 
 Not to be annoying or anything but I think as this is the English Wikipedia, we do not need a list of hundreds of foreign equivalents. It is pointless to say the least as, even though hello is a special word, every word has translations in other languages. I move to have it reduced to a list of a maximum of 5 equivalants consisting of the largest used languages, so Chinese, Spanish, Bengali, Hindi/Urdu and Arabic (list from here). Otherwise we are going to have problems with an ever increasing list length and people inserting vulgarities such as those removed by the above user.-   
 :I have reduced the list to combination of the most common and most influential languages instead. -   
 ::The page that is being claimed to provide a source for portugese being the fith most common spoken language does not provide any sources. I have provided a good source to a educational institute which claims a different thing. Please, if you wish to include portugese in the list, provide a verifiable and rebiable source.-[[User talk:Localzu