Internationalization

Thanks to members of the worldwide GNOME Translation Project, under the leadership of Christian Rose and Danilo Šegan, GNOME 2.14 offers support for 45 languages (at least 80 percent of strings translated).

Supported languages:

  • Albanian (5 million speakers)
  • Basque (580,000)
  • Bengali (189 million)
  • Brazilian Portuguese (175 million)
  • Bulgarian (9 million)
  • Catalan (7 million)
  • Chinese (Hong Kong)
  • Chinese (Taiwan) (40 million)
  • Chinese Simplified (over 1 billion)
  • Czech (11 million)
  • Danish (5.3 million)
  • Dutch (over 21 million)
  • English (341 million)
  • Estonian (1 million)
  • Finnish (over 5 million)
  • French (over 75 million)
  • Galician (3 million)
  • German (100 million)
  • Greek (15 million)
  • Gujarati (46 million)
  • Hindi (370 million)
  • Hungarian (14.5 million)
  • Indonesian (230 million)
  • Italian (60 million)
  • Japanese (over 125 million)
  • Korean (75 million)
  • Lithuanian (4 million)
  • Macedonian (2 million)
  • Nepali (16 million)
  • Norwegian Bookmal (5 million)
  • Persian
  • Polish (44 million)
  • Portuguese (43 million)
  • Punjabi (60 million)
  • Romanian (26 million)
  • Russian (170 million)
  • Serbian (10 million)
  • Slovak (5 million)
  • Spanish (over 350 million)
  • Swedish (9 million)
  • Thai (60 million)
  • Turkish (150 million)
  • Ukrainian (50 million)
  • Vietnamese (68 million)
  • Welsh (575,000)

Note that Basque, Bengali, Chinese (Hong Kong), Estonian and Persian are new supported languages in GNOME 2.14, thanks to the hard work of their translators. Also noteworthy are that British and Canadian English are supported.

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