How to Ask for a Beer

What I am trying to do is compile a list of all the words meaning beer or ale. I am not going to include certain style words, such as sahti or bock or lambic, but just generic words for that beverage to which I have dedicated my corner of the Internet.

Now 113 languages!

beer, ale - english
serbesa - tagalog, mazahua
beer - bengali, gujarati, sinhalese
bière - french
cerveza - spanish, asturian
cervessa - catalan
cerveja - portuguese
pivo - czech, russian, slovenian, slovakian, croatian, serbian, ukrainian, azerbaijani, belorussian
piwo - polish
alus - latvian, lithuanian
õlu- estonian
öl - swedish
øl - danish, norwegian
olut - finnish
vuola - saami
bier - german, dutch, flemish, breton, frisian
bier, oke - afrikaans
mai chu - cantonese
pi jiu - mandarin
bir - javanese, malay, bahasa indonesian
bjor - icelandic, faroese
birra - italian, maltese, also colloquial spanish (spain only)
biru - japanese
leann - gaelic
oke - afrikaans (also bier)
birasi - ??
aul - old norse
sör - hungarian
bira - turkish, arabic, bulgarian, amharic
ruou bia - vietnamese
bia, pombe - swahili
bere - romanian, moldovan
maek-ju - korean
garagardo - basque
garejure(?), kareh tchour - armenian
birrë - albanian
fita - hausa
biar - hindi (approx.)
bia - thai, marshallese, pidgen (PNG), bislama
beoir - irish
cervisia - latin
cha'ng - nepali, tibetan
labiera - malagasy
ab-e-jow - persian (farsi)
pia - hawaiian, samoan
béier - letzeburgish
sirwisa - quechua
mbi'ra - greek
cor - cornish
beera - hebrew
cervexa - galician
jwala - sesotho
biyr - yiddish
utshwala - zulu
béh-á-chiú - taiwanese
cwrw - welsh
ubhiya - xhosa
ab'ju - farsi
biéra, cervesa - provencal
bire - sinhalese, kurdish
bitdjiu - hokkein
cerbes - papiamento
immiaarag - greenlandic
kaguy - guarani
pive - uighur
byè - creole
ghvino - georgian
bwalwa - bemba
bbiye - luganda
bil - volapük
jij - chechnian
ihune - manx
biera - rheto-rumansch
nsa - bwi
bya - myanmar
syra - kazakh
biri - tswana
sangara - wolof
beE - dagaare
sara - chuvash
biro - ido
lah bee her - chipewyan
béh-á-chiú - holooe

If anyone has any additions or corrections, email me.
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