This page looks at languages in terms of need in target countries, and availability in Linux.

Official Languages of Target Countries

Data on official languages from both

These sources often do not agree. The view on this page is that the more inclusive definition should be used, combining languages on both lists. Even if a language listed here is not formally adopted as an official language in the country of use, it is important enough for our purposes.

Argentina
- Spanish
- Guarani (Corrientes and Misiones)

National or official language: Spanish.

Living languages: 25

Brazil
- Portuguese

National or official language: Portuguese.

Living languages: 188

China, People's Republic of
- Cantonese (de facto in Hong Kong and Macau)
- English (in Hong Kong)
- Kazakh (in Ili Kazakh)
- Korean (in Changbai and Yanbian)
- Mandarin (locally know as Putonghua) (statewide, except in Hong Kong and Macau where it has de facto official status)
- Mongolian (in Inner Mongolia)
- Portuguese (in Macau)
- Tajik (in Taxkorgan)
- Tibetan (in Tibet)
- Uyghur (in Xinjiang)
- Zhuang (in Guangxi)

National or official languages: Mandarin Chinese, regional languages: Daur, Kalmyk-Oirat, Lu, Peripheral Mongolian, Central Tibetan, Uyghur, Xibe, Northern Zhuang.

Living languages: 235

Egypt
- Arabic

National or official languages: Standard Arabic, Egyptian Spoken Arabic.

Living languages: 11

India
- Assamese (in Assam)
- Bengali (in Tripura and West Bengal)
- Bodo (in Assam)
- Dogri (in Jammu and Kashmir)
- English (statewide)
- Gujarati (in Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, and Gujarat)
- Hindi (statewide)
- Kannada (in Karnataka)
- Kashmiri (in Jammu and Kashmir)
- Konkani (in Goa)
- Maithili (in Bihar)
- Malayalam (in Kerala, Pondicherry and Lakshadweep)
- Meitei (in Manipur)
- Marathi (in Maharashtra)
- Nepali (in Sikkim)
- Oriya (in Orissa)
- Punjabi (in Punjab)
- Sanskrit (statewide)
- Santali (in Jharkhand)
- Sindhi (in Jammu and Kashmir)
- Tamil (in Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry)
- Telugu (in Andhra Pradesh and Pondicherry)
- Urdu (in Jammu and Kashmir)
- French (Only in Pondicherry Union Territory)

There are 22 official 'scheduled' languages: Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Marathi, Meitei, Nepali, Oriya, Eastern Panjabi, Sanskrit, Santali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu.

Living languages: 415

Libya
- Arabic

National or official language: Standard Arabic.

Living languages: 9

Nigeria
- English
- Hausa (national)
- Yoruba (national)
- Igbo (national)

National or official languages: Edo, Efik, Adamawa Fulfulde, Hausa, Idoma, Igbo, Central Kanuri, Yoruba, English.

Living languages: 510

Thailand
- Thai

National or official language: Thai.

Living languages: 74

Languages in Target Countries

Lists of languages of countries in discussions with OLPC, with links to priorities and status of OLPC-related language work in each, where available. All of these languages except Mongolian in its traditional alphabet can be entered, viewed, and printed in most distributions of Linux. Language support from one distribution can be easily added to almost any other. There are local OLPC organizations in several other countries.

Hausa, Igbo, and Yoruba (the most important three of the eight official languages of Nigeria other than English) lack further support, including native keyboard layouts and locales. Mongolian is currently supported only in Cyrillic, not in its traditional alphabet.