Linux language support
Linux localization is complex. Several major components, including Mozilla, KDE, and OpenOffice, provide their own localizations. When a distribution of Linux is released in a particular language, it may be a limited subset of applications and of documentation that is supported. A number of languages are routinely supported in most distributions, while for other languages there may be only one or very few distributions including it.
You can use the search page at Distrowatch to look for distributions for particular languages, and for other functions, such as Linux for the blind.
Mandriva
One of the best resources for language support is the L10n section of the Mandriva Linux Web site. Mandriva Linux Localization Teams includes groups working on the following languages. However, there are many Linux localization projects independent of any of the major distributions.
| (af) Afrikaans | (am) Amharic | (ar) Arabic | (az) Azerbaijani |
| (be) Belarussian | (bg) Bulgarian | (bn) Bengali | (br) Breton |
| (bs) Bosnian | (ca) Catalan | (cs) Czech | (cy) Cymraeg (Welsh) |
| (da) Danish | (de) German | (el) Greek | (eo) Esperanto |
| (es) Spanish | (et) Estonian | (eu) Euskara (Basque) | (fa) Farsi (Iranian) |
| (fi) Suomi (Finnish) | (fr) French | (fur) Furlan | (ga) Gaeilge (Irish Gaelic) |
| (gl) Galician | (he) Hebrew | (hi) Hindi | (hr) Croatian |
| (hu) Hungarian | (hy) Armenian | (id) Indonesian | (is) Icelandic |
| (it) Italian | (ja) Japanese | (ka) Georgian | (kn) Kannada |
| (ko) Korean | (ku) Kurdish | (ky) Kyrgyz | (lo) Lao |
| (lt) Lithuanian | (ltg) Latgalian | (lv) Latvian | (mk) Macedonian |
| (mn) Mongolian | (ms) Malay | (mt) Maltese | (nl) Dutch |
| (nb) Norwegian Bokmål | (nn) Norwegian Nynorsk | (pa_IN) Punjabi (in gurmukhi script) | (pl) Polish |
| (pt) Portuguese (Portugal) (pt_BR) Brazilian Portuguese |
(ro) Romanian | (ru) Russian | (sc) Sardinian |
| (sk) Slovakian | (sl) Slovenian | (sq) Albanian (Shqip) | (sr) Serbian |
| (sv) Swedish | (ta) Tamil | (tg) Tajiki | (th) Thai |
| (tk) Turkmen | (tl) Filipino (Tagalog) | (tr) Turkish | (uk) Ukrainian |
| (ur) Urdu | (uz) Uzbekian | (vi) Vietnamese | (wa) Walloon |
| (zh_CN) Chinese (simplified) | (zh_TW) Chinese (traditional) |
IndLinux
Another good source is IndLinux
| Bengali | Devanagari | Gujarati | Punjabi |
| Kannada | Malayalam | Oriya | Tamil |
| Telugu | Dzongkha (Bhutan) | Assamese | Nepalese |
| Sinhala (Sri Lanka) |
Other
Other Linux localization projects are listed on pages in this Wiki for the languages concerned. It would be useful to link to them from this page.
Here are some others.
- Pashtu (Pashto) Localization Project Afghanistan and the border areas of Pakistan
- Soyombo Mongolian Linux Cyrillic now, traditional Mongolian alphabet to come
- Rwandan distribution of Linux in Kinyarwanda language
- Wazobia Linux in English, Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba
- Thai Linux (in Thai)
- Bengalinux
- Sinhala Linux සිංහල
See Also
See also Locales, Keyboard layouts