What is the first day of the week?

[Josquius]

I've got this bloody annoying song stuck in my head.....

[Sheilbh]

Monday

[Zanza]

Monday

[Grey Fox]

Sunday, you goddamn Napoleonites.

[mongers]

I've got this bloody annoying song stuck in my head.....

Try mashing it between two bricks.

[HVC]

Portuguese makes it easy by calling Monday (literally) the second day.

[Duque de Bragança]

Portuguese makes it easy by calling Monday (literally) the second day.

The crypto Judeo-Moor beat me to it.  Portuguese and Greek use numbered week days.
From liturgical Latin in the Portuguese case, obviously.

[Maladict]

Monday

[Josephus]

Same in Maltese. Monday is it-tnejn, literally "the second"

[Tamas]

Monday. End of story.

[Sheilbh]

Sunday, you goddamn Napoleonites.

We should return to the Republican calendar

(Obviously 3-4 days off).

[Tamas]

I think even in the day of St. Stephen, Sunday was considered the last day of the week when you go to Church and don't do anything.

[The Brain]

The Lord God rested after his labors. Not before.

[grumbler]

For those languages that have Sunday as literally "first day," does the weekend include "First Day?" Or does the term used for "weekend" in English not imply in those languages that those two days are at the end of the week?

These kinds of language differences are fun.

[HVC]

For Portuguese Sunday is Domingo, lords day. Saturday is Sabado (sabbath)


*edit* they do use "fim de semana", which means end of the week. But I don't know if that's a traditional thing or relatively new.

Edit 2 the rest of the week is:

segunda-feira
terca-feira
quarta-feira
quinta-feira
sexta-feira


2nd day, 3rd day, etc.