Internationalization

Thanks to members of the worldwide GNOME Translation Project, GNOME 2.28 offers support for more than 50 languages with at least 80 percent of strings translated, including the user and administration manuals for many languages.

Supported languages:

  • Arabic
  • Assamese
  • Basque
  • Bengali
  • Bengali (India)
  • Brazilian Portuguese
  • Bulgarian
  • Catalan
  • Catalan (Valencian)
  • Chinese (China)
  • Chinese (Hong Kong)
  • Chinese (Taiwan)
  • Czech
  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • English (US, British, Canadian)
  • Estonian
  • Finnish
  • French
  • Galician
  • German
  • Greek
  • Gujarati
  • Hebrew
  • Hindi
  • Hungarian
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Kannada
  • Korean
  • Lithuanian
  • Macedonian
  • Malayalam
  • Marathi
  • Norwegian Bokmål
  • Norwegian Nynorsk
  • Oriya
  • Polish
  • Portuguese
  • Punjabi
  • Romanian
  • Russian
  • Serbian
  • Slovenian
  • Spanish
  • Swedish
  • Tamil
  • Telugu
  • Thai
  • Turkish
  • Ukrainian
  • Vietnamese

Many other languages are partially supported, with more than half of their strings translated.

Translating a software package as large as GNOME into a new language can be an overwhelming task for even the most dedicated translation team. For this release a stellar effort has been done by the Bengali team, increasing the completeness of their translation by more than 25 points, passing the 80% mark with 83% of the user interface translated. The Welsh, Breton, and Serbian teams are also to be congratulated as they raised their translation status 10 points or more.

Detailed statistics and more information are available on GNOME's translation status site.