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How many ways can YOU say Beer?

English: beer
Swahili: pombe
Spanish: la cerveza
Finnish: olut
Hungarian: so~r [o~ = o-umlaut; s = sh]
French: bie`re
Flemish: bier
Dutch: pils or bier
German: Bier
Russian: pivo
Czech: pivo
Polish: piwa
Bulgarian: bira
Japanese: biro
Thai: bia
Italian: birra
Servo-croatian: pivo
Swedish: o"l [o-umlaut]
Greek: mpira
Danish: o/l [o-slash]
Portuguese: cerveja
Hebrew: bira
Rumanian: bere
Turkish: bira
Norwegian: o/l [o-slash]
Icelandic: bjo’r [o-acute accent]
Persian: [a try at transcriptian] ob e dzhu
Arabic: birra [a transcription]
Maltese: birra
Slovenian: pivo
Slovakian: pivo
Hindi: biar [transcription]
Singalese: bire [transcription]
Raeto-romanian: bi’era [i-acute accent]
Catalan: cervesa
Papiamentu: serves
Hawaiian: pia or bia
Albanian: birre" [e-umlaut]
Lithuanian: alus
Irish: beoir
Luxemburgois: be’ier [e-acute accent]
Basque: garagarnoa
Breton: bier
Gaelic: beo`ir [o-grave accent]
Hausa: fita
Welsh: gwrw (I am not sure about this one)
Madagassian: labiera (yes, one word)
Quechua: sirwisa
Tagalog: beer
Nepalese: biyar [transcription]
Indonesian: bir
Pidgin (Papua): bia
Burmese: biya [transcription]
Korean: maekju [transcription]
Samoan: pia
Armenian: garejure [transcription]

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