Here's what African and non-African languages call "honey wine." Africans have fermented honey into wine for millennia. But Ethiopians - with their more than 80 languages and 120 dialects - did it first, so tej is Africa's premiere honey wine. Non-Ethiopian Honey Country Country Non-African African Language Wine (Language Family) Honey Wine (Language Language Moru duma Sudan Family) (Nilo-Saharan) Japanese Japan hachimitsu sake (Japanese) Banda-Banda duma Central African Republic (Niger-Congo) Chinese China, Taiwan (Mandarin, mi jiu, mat zau (Sino-Tibetan) Sango duma Central African Republic Cantonese) (Creole, Ngbandi-based) Vietnamese Vietnam Dinka dhum, dhumo Sudan (Nilo-Saharan) (Austro-Asiatic) Gula duma Central African Republic Hieroglyphics Ancient Egypt (Nilo-Saharan) (to drink, or to drink Zande, Lingala duma/dumu Democratic Republic of oneself drunk - from a book Congo (Niger-Congo) by Legesse Allyn) Songo quingundo Democratic Republic of Korean Korea Congo (Bantu) kkul sul (Korean) Luchazi bingundo Angola (Bantu) Hebrew Israel (Semitic) Mbunda migundo Angola, Zambia temad (Bantu) Arabic Many countries (Semitic) Rwanda funguro Rwanda (Bantu) nabidh Kikamba, Kikuya, uki/uuki Kenya (Bantu) English mead, hydromel Many countries Imenti (Indo-European) Xhosa iQhilika South Africa, Botswana, Spanish aguamiel Spain, others Lesotho (Bantu) (Indo-European) Kadaru (Kafir) i-qilika Sudan Portuguese hidromel Portugal, Brazil (Nilo-Saharan) (Indo-European) Zulu uhlobo South Africa (Bantu) Hungarian mezbor Hungary lotshwala, (Uralic) iwayini loju Polish miod Poland Maa enaisho Tanzania, Kenya (Nilo- (Indo-European) (the Maasai) olotorok Saharan) Danish/Norwegian mjod Denmark/Norway Barbaig gesuda Tanzania (Nilo-Saharan) (Indo-European) (d. Datooga) Swedish mjod Sweden Swahili mvinyo/pombe Tanzania (Niger-Congo) (Indo-European) ya asali Welsh meddeglyn, myddyglyn Wales Nyamwezi wanzuki Tanzania (Niger-Congo) (Indo-European) Zigula wischa Tanzania (Niger-Congo) Tagalog idromel, agwamyel Philippines (Austronesian) Wolof sibah/sibarrh, Senegal (Niger-Congo) sibax Greek Greece converted by Web2PDFConvert.com Pulaar Fulfulde bese/besu, Mali (Niger-Congo) (Indo-European) kokoni ydromeli Bemba, Nkoya, mbote/imbote Zambia (Niger-Congo) Sanskrit India Ndebele, Kaonde, madhu (Indo-European) Lamba Russian Russia Lunda kosolo/kasolu Zambia (Niger-Congo) myedovukzha (Indo-European) Luvale ndoka Zambia (Niger-Congo) Swedish mjod Sweden (Indo-European) Tswana khadi Botswana, others (Niger- Congo) Icelandic Iceland (Indo-European) Nandi kipketinik Democratic Republic of Congo (Niger-Congo) Lithuanian midus Lithuania (Indo-European) Nguni group amambawu South Africa, Zimbabwe, Swaziland (Bantu) Finnish sima Finland (Uralic) Tsonga vhinya/wayeni South Africa, others ya vulombe (Niger-Congo) Indonesian padang rumput Indonesia (Austronesian) Kirundi ubuki Burundi (Niger-Congo) Mayan balche Mexico, Mande group liji, diji Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Central America Benin, Mali (Niger- (Mayan) Congo) Cheyenne hahnomahep- U.S.A. Ndogo pili Sudan (Niger-Congo) ano'ehaseo'o tseve'keeno'e (Algic) Igbo mmanya anyu Nigeria (Niger-Congo) Bamana diji, dikolen Mali (Niger-Congo) (Mande group) Dogon bedji Mali (Niger-Congo) Mamara Senoufo se cunahara Mali (Niger-Congo) Bomu so Mali (Niger-Congo) Nyanja kachasu Malawi (Niger-Congo) Bobo base Burkina Faso (Niger-Congo) Baka njambu Cameroon (Niger- Congo) Kxoe dini-caca Namibia (Khosian) Boni bo'or Tanzania (Cushitic) Bedawi adarha Sudan (Cushitic) Dahalo mola Kenya (Cushitic) converted by Web2PDFConvert.com.