
How's everyone? Wish you peace, health and happiness 各位好嗎?祝各位平安健康快樂。 Gok 3 wai 2 hou 2 maa 1? Zuk 1 gok 3 wai 2 ping 4 on 1 gin 6 hong 1 faai 3 lok 6. We come in friendship to those who are friends. ( Hoitines pot'este chairete! Eirēnikōs pros philous elēlythamen philoi.) This is a list of the recorded greetings in order of appearance on their respective tracks. The whale sounds were provided by Roger Payne.

Later audio sections contain the spoken greetings by the United Nations delegates in the remaining four languages, including Esperanto and !Kung. It includes four Chinese varieties (marked with **), 12 South Asian languages (marked #) and five ancient languages (marked §), listed here in alphabetical order: The number of native speakers of these 55 languages combined (excluding L2 speakers) is over 4.7 billion people, comprising over 65% of the world population. The original plan was to use greetings made by United Nations delegates, but various problems with these recordings led to new recordings being made at Cornell University by people from the foreign-language departments. The second audio section ("Greetings in 55 Languages") contains spoken greetings in 55 languages.

The first audio section contains a spoken greeting in English from then- Secretary-General of the United Nations Kurt Waldheim.
