Internationalization

Thanks to members of the worldwide GNOME Translation Project, under the leadership of Christian Rose and Kjartan Maraas, GNOME 2.8 offers support for 40 languages (at least 80 percent of strings translated).

Supported languages:

  • Albanian (5 million speakers)
  • Arabic (235 million)
  • Azerbaijani (28 million)
  • Basque (580,000)
  • Bengali (189 million)
  • Brazilian Portuguese (175 million)
  • Bulgarian (9 million)
  • Catalan (7 million)
  • Chinese Simplified (over 1 billion)
  • Chinese Traditional (40 million)
  • Czech (11 million)
  • Danish (5.3 million)
  • Dutch (over 21 million)
  • English (341 million)
  • Finnish (over 5 million)
  • French (over 75 million)
  • German (100 million)
  • Greek (15 million)
  • Gujarati (46 million)
  • Hindi (370 million)
  • Hungarian (14.5 million)
  • Italian (60 million)
  • Japanese (over 125 million)
  • Korean (75 million)
  • Lithuanian (4 million)
  • Malay (over 17 million)
  • Norwegian Bookmal (5 million)
  • Norwegian Nynorsk
  • Panjabi (60 million)
  • Polish (44 million)
  • Portuguese (43 million)
  • Romanian (26 million)
  • Russian (170 million)
  • Serbian (10 million)
  • Spanish (over 350 million)
  • Swedish (9 million)
  • Tamil (61 million)
  • Turkish (150 million)
  • Ukrainian (50 million)
  • Welsh (575,000)

Note that Basque, Bulgarian, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Norwegian Nynorsk, Panjabi and Tamil are new supported languages in GNOME 2.8, thanks to the hard work of their translators. Also worthy of mention is that British English and Canadian English are also supported.

Another 9 languages are partially supported, with more than half of their strings translated. Croatian and Mongolian are particularly close to "supported" status.