People from different country express greeting in different ways.
Like bowing ,shaking hands and others... What's yours?
smile ; hugging each other ;shakings hand
we say
صباح الخير , صباح النور , = good morning
اهلا و سهلا , مرحبا , = welcome ; hello
السلام عليكم = peace be upon you
يوم سعيد (just for the mening but in arabic we say it in different way with our different arabic current languages ) like in Tunisia we say نهارك طيب ..
تصبح على خير : good night
generally we use Douaa (pray) between each other as greeting too like God bless you ; .. etc
Anne,
In Spain, are typical this greetings, as well:
- Shaking hands, in the first meeting beween males and two kisses beween men & women (one in each cheek). And a hug between young people.
See you,
Jose (Canary Island- Spain)