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Language	Variation	Where used / Origins
Choctaw	okeh	Choctaw word for 'it is so' (see above). An alternative English spelling, no longer common, although it remained in sporadic use well into the 20th century. Also see Okeh Records.
English	hokay	Used in English as an alternative.
English	kay or 'kay	Notably used in Herman Wouk's The Caine Mutiny as a filler word by the maniacal Captain Queeg.
English	k or kk or oka	Commonly used in instant messaging, or in SMS messages. Before the days of SMS, "K"   ▄▄▄ ▄ ▄▄▄  was used as a Morse code prosign for "Go Ahead".
???	okay okay	Reduplicated okay. Used in a variety of languages, including Japanese and Korean.
English	Okie dokie	This slang term was popularized in the film "The Little Rascals" (Oki doki). Also with alternate spellings, including okeydoke. The phrase can be extended further, e.g. "Okie dokie (aka) pokie / smokie / artichokie / karaoke / lokie," etc. Also adopted into other languages, e.g. in Dutch, in such spellings as okiedokie, or Okie Dokie.
Vietnamese	ô-kê	Used in Vietnam; okey also used, but ok more commonly.
Various...	okei	Used in Norwegian, Icelandic, Finnish and Estonian (together with OK or ok)
Various	okey	Used in Catalan, Faroese, Filipino, Russian, Spanish and Turkish, sounding similar to the English pronunciation OK.
Spanish?	Template:Wiktes	Used in Spain in the 1980s.
Various	okej	Used in Polish, Serbo-Croatian, Slovene, Macedonian, Swedish, Esperanto, and sometimes Latvian; ok also used, but considered to be a part of more colloquial internet language.
Various	oké	Used in Dutch and Hungarian. In Dutch, oke, ok and okay are also used, but are less common in the formal written language.
Norwegian	okå	Used in Norway. Pronounced the same way as OK; the spelling arises from the pronunciation of the individual letters O and K in Norwegian. Okei and oukei are also commonly used written or spoken.
Finnish	ookoo	Used in Finland. Pronounced the same way as OK; the spelling arises from the pronunciation of the individual letters in Finnish.
Portuguese	oquei and ocá	Nowadays, rarely used in Portuguese, but once a fad in Brazil. Pronounced as the English OK or following the names of the letters in Portuguese (oh-kah). In written Portuguese, still very much used as OK.
Multiple	oukej	Used in Czech and Slovak. Pronounced as the English OK. When written OK, it is pronounced [o:ka:]. Neither version recognized as official.
Maltese	owkej	Used in Maltese. Pronounced as the English OK.
Afrikaans	oukei	Used in colloquial Afrikaans. Pronounced also as OK.
Modern Hebrew	או קיי	Used in colloquial Modern Hebrew. Pronounced also as OK.
Greek	O.K.	Used in Greek. The abbreviation is pronounced as the English okay. A myth is circulated by some in Greece that 'OK' can be traced back to the Greek expression 'Όλα Καλά', which means 'all is well'.
English	A-OK	A more technical-sounding variation popularized by NASA in 1961.
English	M'kay	Slang term popularized by South Park TV show. Pronounced also as "Mmmm K". This variation has connotations of sarcasm, such as condescending disagreement.
English	Okily Dokily!	Catchphrase used by Ned Flanders in The Simpsons.
Arabic	اوكي	Used in Arabic. Pronounced also as OK.
Thai	โอเค	Thai. Pronounced "o khe".

Reference examples

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{{cite book 
|last1=Grønnum |first1=Nina 
|editor1-last=Hirst |editor1-first=Daniel |editor2-last=Cristo |editor2-first=Albert Di 
|title=Intonation Systems 
|date=1998 
|publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge 
|isbn=9780521395137 |pages=131-151 
|url=https://www.cambridge.org/dk/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/phonetics-and-phonology/intonation-systems-survey-twenty-languages?format=HB 
|chapter=Intonation in Danish
|author-link=Nina Grønnum
}}