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# Map of the day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/map-of-the-day-1462/
- Published: 2019-06-30T02:00:45.000Z
- Updated: 2019-07-07T10:57:04.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Blog, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 04:14

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How many syllables it takes to say “I love you”

> **Sources/methodology:**  
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> If I wasn’t sure of the main language I used the CIA World Factbook, usually I took the official language but Africa was tricky so there I tried to take the more popular languages, you can see Cameroon is split 50/50 between French and English and then Ethiopia is split 3 ways between Oromo, Amharic and Somali, two of which took six syllables and the other seven syllables.  
> I had a few websites which had lists of how to say “I love you.” In some cases I just had to count syllables of the English spellings of these but I tried my best to avoid doing that.   
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> Sources:  
> http://www.loveandromance360.com/iloveyou.htm  
> http://www.freelang.net/expressions/iloveyou.php  
> http://www.online-dating-tips-and-reviews.com/I-Love-You.html  
> http://www.howtosayiloveyou.net/?page\_id=96  
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> Other than that, I used youtube for quite a few to hear how it was said which was a neat experience, seeing people from all over the world say “I love you” in their native tongue, always with a smile on their face.  
> I did not anticipate a language taking more than 7 syllables which is why my colouring goes weird for 8 and 9 having to use grey and a darker purple.  
> Nepal is the only country that took 9 syllables, India and Sri Lanka take 8 syllables.  
> The least amount of syllables to say I love you is 2, most of them are in French: “je t’aime.” Burmese is “chit-tey”; Albanian is “dua” (though I saw some say “te dua”); and I’m pretty sure all the ones in Africa are just French.  
> When there was a discrepancy between how many syllables it took to say to a woman vs to a man I used the saying to a woman because, well, I’m male.  
> I probably have a bunch of errors, let me know of any you see or if you have questions on what I used as a source. A lot of times I just had to search Google “say I love you in xyz”.  
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> (Source: [reddit.com](https://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2Fr%2FMapPorn%2Fcomments%2F2p03qr%2Foc%5Fhow%5Fmany%5Fsyllables%5Fit%5Ftakes%5Fto%5Fsay%5Fi%5Flove%5Fyou%2F&t=M2M2MGYxMWM2NWViNmNkMzEyZTQ1MGEzYjc4ZmZhM2VmOTBiYmNkNCwxMDUwOTM1MTY3MDA%3D&b=t%3A0mNcm4-ouIYWs3aWp94org&p=https%3A%2F%2Fmapsontheweb.zoom-maps.com%2Fpost%2F105093516700%2Fhow-many-syllables-it-takes-to-say-i-love-you&m=1&ref=goodoil.news))