Languages that use “ciao” or a similar version descended from Italian as a greeting or an informal goobye
Present in: Portuguese (tchau), Spanish from Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Colombia, Venezuela, Panama, Costa Rica, Catalan, Sicilian, Maltese, Venetian, Lombard, Romansh, German (tschau), Swiss German, every Slavic language except Polish and Belarussian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Estonian (tsau), Greek, Albanian (qao), Romanian (ceau), Hungarian (csaó), Somali, Amharic, Tigrinya, Malaysian. The Vietnamese “chào” is not related to Italian, so it’s unmarked there.
Edit: the map only includes those languages that use ‘ciao’ as the most common informal way of greeting/goodbye, not as part of slang, argots or people who use it just to sound cool. For example, in Portuguese, Maltese or Latvian it has surpassed the older forms of saying goodbye in informal situations for all social classes.
Here the university environment (both in campus and dormitories) is so multinational that is like living in a “3 guys are sitting in a bar” joke, which is fun and interesting in many ways. One particular thing I find endlessly amusing about it is sharing idiomatic expressions with its direct translations and meanings (and somehow try understand a bit more of the expression holders through them).
Since a long I’ve been wanting to start this category of “illustrated idiomatic expressions”, and now that I’m here reading some stuff and “more bored than a monkey in a bonsai” I tell myself, let’s graphic-procrastinate a bit and start right now!
This one is a colombian expression for being disappointed, unsatisfied or just very bored.
