Internationalisation

Thanks to members of the worldwide GNOME Translation Project, GNOME 3.0 offers support for more than 50 languages, often including user and administration manuals.

Supported languages include:

  • Arabic
  • Asturian
  • Basque
  • Bengali
  • Brazilian Portuguese
  • British English
  • Bulgarian
  • Catalan
  • Catalan (Valencian)
  • Chinese (China)
  • Chinese (Hong Kong)
  • Chinese (Taiwan)
  • Czech
  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • Estonian
  • Finnish
  • French
  • Galician
  • German
  • Greek
  • Gujarati
  • Hebrew
  • Hindi
  • Hungarian
  • Indonesian
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Kannada
  • Korean
  • Latvian
  • Lithuanian
  • Marathi
  • Norwegian Bokmål
  • Polish
  • Portuguese
  • Punjabi
  • Romanian
  • Russian
  • Serbian
  • Serbian Latin
  • Slovenian
  • Spanish
  • Swedish
  • Tamil
  • Thai
  • Turkish
  • Ukrainian
  • Vietnamese

Many other languages are partially supported. Detailed information on the extent of GNOME translations is available through the GNOME translation status site.

Translating a software package as large as GNOME into a different language can be a difficult task for even the most dedicated translation team. For this release a stellar effort has been done by the Uighur team, increasing the completeness of their translation by more than 37 points. The Esperanto team also increased its coverage by 21 percent.