Get Involved/translation
Are you fluent in multiple languages? Having our software interfaces and documentation available in multiple languages is important to enable more people to be able to comfortably use our software, and you can help make this happen.
The KDE Translation teams take fragments of text from KDE software as well as sections of Documentation, all of which are primarily written in English, and translates them into other languages.
The translations are fed back into the software, and the end result is that a user can use an application entirely in their native language.
And that, of course, means you too — instead of translating messages and menu items and button text in your head every time you use an application, you can do it just once, and then have it in your own language whenever you use it.
Communicating with the team
There are several ways to get in contact with the translation team. See the tables in #Teams for an overview of the translation teams and their specific communication channels.
The two most important are:
- the #kde-i18n channel on Matrix or IRC Libera Chat is where translators chat to each other in real time
- the primary mailing list for talking about translations is the kde-i18n-doc list, although there are other lists for specific languages which you can find on the complete list of KDE mailing lists
First steps
KDE uses custom tools to internationalize the GUI and documentation of programs. You will want to review The Translation Howto to learn the process. To dive in and start translating, head to KDE Localization Home Page and choose your language. From there, you can contact the specific team for your language and download the translation files.
There is also a scoreboard showing progress of current teams.
A helping hand
KDE is a big community, and translating its software is a big project. It is easy to feel lost when you first start. Several people have volunteered to help new members by answering your questions and pointing you to the right places. You can find a list on the mentoring page.
Teams
In the tables below an overview of translation teams within KDE is provided; see the column "Team" for team-specific links.
If the team of the language you are searching for is not here, please check the teams list at the KDE Localization website. If you also do not find what you are looking for there, contact [email protected] to request more information on how to create a new team.
The tables below are ordered by language code, e.g., German (de 'Deutsch') appears before English (en 'English').
| Language Code | Team | Wiki | Chat | Mailing Lists | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans | af | Afrikaans Team | -- | -- | -- |
| اللغات (Arabic) | ar | Arabic Team | -- | -- | kde-l10n-ar |
| Assamese | as | Assamese Team | -- | -- | -- |
| Asturian | ast | Asturian Team | -- | -- | -- |
| Azerbaijani | az | Azerbaijani Team | -- | -- | -- |
| Belarusian | be | Belarusian Team | -- | -- | -- |
| Belarusian Latin | be@latin | Belarusian Latin Team | -- | -- | -- |
| Bulgarian | bg | Bulgarian Team, KDE in Bulgarian (at kde.lindeas.com) | -- | -- | -- |
| Bengali | bn | Bengali Team | -- | -- | -- |
| Bengali (India) | bn_IN | Bengali (India) Team | See Indian languages | ||
| Tibetan | bo | Tibetan Team | -- | -- | -- |
| Breton | br | Breton Team | -- | -- | -- |
| bosanski (Bosnian) | bs | Bosnian Team | -- | -- | -- |
| Català (Catalan) | ca | Catalan Team | -- | -- | kde-i18n-ca |
| Català - Valencià (Catalan - Valencian) | ca@valencia | Catalan (Valencian) Team | -- | -- | kde-i18n-ca |
| Crimean Tatar (Crimean Turkish) | crh | Crimean Tatar (Crimean Turkish) Team | -- | -- | -- |
| Český (Czech) | cs | Czech Team | Jak překládat Kde ("How to Translate KDE" at wiki.l10n.cz) | -- | kde-i18n-cs |
| Kashubian | csb | Kashubian Team | |||
| Welsh | cy | Welsh Team | |||
| Danish | da | Danish Team | -- | -- | -- |
| Deutsch (German) | de | German Team | German (de) | -- | kde-i18n-de |
| Dzongkha | dz | Dzongkha Team | |||
| Ελληνικά (Greek) | el | Greek Team, Info | kde-i18n-el, lists.hellug.gr (INACTIVE; see [https://lists.hellug.gr/pipermail/i18ngr/2023-June/006459.html this post)] | ||
| English (British) | en_GB | British English Team | -- | -- | kde-l10n-en_gb |
| Esperanto | eo | Esperanto Team, Info | kde-i18n-eo | ||
| Español (Spanish) | es | Spanish Team, Info | -- | -- | kde-l10n-es |
| Eesti (Estonian) | et | Estonian Team | |||
| Euskara (Basque) | eu | Basque Team | -- | -- | kde-i18n-eu |
| فارسی (Persian) | fa | Persian Team | kde-i18n-fa | ||
| Suomi (Finnish) | fi | Finnish Team | Finnish (fi) | -- | kde-l10n-fi |
| Faroese | fo | Faroese Team | |||
| Français (French) | fr | French Team, Info | French (fr) | -- | kde-francophone |
| Frisian | fy | Frisian Team | kde-i18n-fry | ||
| Irish | ga | Irish Team | (see team page) | ||
| Scottish Gaelic | gd | Scottish Gaelic Team | |||
| Galego (Galician) | gl | Galician Team | Galician (gl) | -- | -- |
| Gujarati | gu | Gujarati Team | See Indian languages | ||
| Hausa | ha | Hausa Team | -- | -- | -- |
| Hebrew | he | Hebrew Team | -- | -- | kde-l10n-he |
| Hindi (हिन्दी) | hi | Hindi (हिन्दी) Team | Hindi (at IndLinuX) | -- | kde-l10n-hi |
| Chhattisgarhi | hne | Chhattisgarhi Team | -- | -- | -- |
| Croatian (Hrvatski) | hr | Croatian (Hrvatski) Team | wiki.open.hr/index.php/KDE_lokalizacija (last updated 2010) | -- | kde-croatia-list (at SourceForge) |
| Upper Sorbian | hsb | Upper Sorbian Team | |||
| Magyar (Hungarian) | hu | Hungarian Team | -- | -- | kde-l10n-hu |
| Armenian | hy | Armenian Team | |||
| Interlingua | ia | Interlingua Team, Blog | -- | -- | kde-l10n-ia |
| Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian) | id | Indonesian Team | -- | -- | -- |
| Interlingue | ie | Interlingue Team | -- | -- | -- |
| Igbo | ig | Igbo Team | -- | -- | -- |
| Icelandic | is | Icelandic Team | -- | -- | -- |
| Indian languages | (various) | -- | KDE India | Matrix: #kde-indic:kde.org | kde-l10n-in |
| Italiano (Italian) | it | Italian Team, Tradurre per KDE | Italian (it) | Matrix: #kde-i18n-it:kde.org | kde-i18n-it |
| 日本語 (Japanese) | ja | Japanese Team | -- | -- | kde-jp |
| Georgian | ka | Georgian Team | |||
| Kabyle | kab | Kabyle Team | |||
| Kikongo | kg | Kikongo Team | |||
| Kazakh | kk | Kazakh Team | |||
| Khmer | km | Khmer Team | (see team page) | ||
| Kannada | kn | Kannada Team, Info | kde-l10n-kn | ||
| 한국어 (Korean) | ko | Korean (한국어) Team | Korean (ko) | -- | kde-kr |
| Kurdish | ku | Kurdish Team | |||
| Kirghiz | ky | Kirghiz Team | |||
| Latin | la | Latin Team | |||
| Luxembourgish | lb | Luxembourgish Team | |||
| Lao | lo | Lao Team | |||
| Lietuvių (Lithuanian) | lt | Lithuanian Team | kde-i18n-lt | ||
| Latvian | lv | Latvian Team | (see team page) | ||
| Maithili | mai | Maithili Team | (see team page) | ||
| Malagasy | mg | Malagasy Team | |||
| Maori | mi | Maori Team | |||
| Macedonian | mk | Macedonian Team | (see team page) | ||
| Malayalam | ml | Malayalam മലയാളം Team | Swathanthra Malayalam Computing സ്വതന്ത്ര മലയാളം കമ്പ്യൂട്ടിങ്ങ് കെ.ഡി.ഇ മലയാളം | (see team page) | |
| Mongolian | mn | Mongolian Team | |||
| मराठी (Marathi) | mr | Marathi Team | -- | -- | -- |
| Malay | ms | Malay Team | |||
| Maltese | mt | Maltese Team | |||
| မြန်မာ (Burmese) | my | Burmese Team | -- | -- | kde-l10n-my |
| Norwegian Bokmål | nb | Norwegian Bokmål Team, Info | (see team page) | ||
| Plattdüütsch (Low Saxon) | nds | Low Saxon Team, Info | |||
| Nepali | ne | Nepali Team | |||
| Nederlands (Dutch) | nl | Dutch Team | -- | -- | kde-i18n-nl |
| Norsk - nynorsk (Norwegian - nynorsk) | nn | Norwegian Nynorsk Team | -- | -- | (see team page) |
| Northern Sotho | nso | Northern Sotho Team | |||
| Occitan | oc | Occitan Team | |||
| Oriya | or | Oriya Team | |||
| Punjabi | pa | Punjabi Team, Info | Matrix: #punlinux:matrix.org | ||
| Polski (Polish) | pl | Polish Team | -- | -- | kdei18n-pl (at SourceForge) |
| Pashto | ps | Pashto Team | |||
| Português (Portuguese) | pt | Portuguese Team | kde-i18n-pt | ||
| Português brasileiro (Brazilian Portuguese) | pt_BR | Brazilian Portuguese Team | -- | Matrix: #kdebrasil-traducao | kde-i18n-pt_br |
| Romanian | ro | Romanian Team | kde-i18n-ro | ||
| Русский (Russian) | ru | Russian Team | -- | -- | kde-russian |
| Kinyarwanda | rw | Kinyarwanda Team | |||
| Sanskrit | sa | Sanskrit Team | |||
| Northern Sami | se | Northern Sami Team, Info (at skolelinux.no) | [email protected] | ||
| Sinhala | si | Sinhala Team | -- | -- | kde-l10n-si |
| Slovenčina (Slovak) | sk | Slovak Team | Lokalizácia KDE (at sk.wikibooks.org) | #kde-sk on irc.i.cz | kde-sk (at linux.sk) (last post: 2013) |
| Slovenščina (Slovenian) | sl | Slovenian Team | Skupina za slovenjenje KDE-jevih programov ("KDE Programs Slovenia Group" at wiki.lugos.si) | -- | lugos-slo (at lugos.si) |
| Albanian | sq | Albanian Team | -- | -- | kde-i18n-sq |
| Serbian | sr | Serbian Team, Info | kde-i18n-sr | ||
| Swati | ss | Swati Team | |||
| Svenska (Swedish) | sv | Swedish Team, Info | -- | kde-l10n-tr | |
| Swahili | sw | Swahili Team | kde-l10n-sw | ||
| Tamil | ta | Tamil Team | kde-l10n-ta | ||
| Telugu | te | Telugu Team | |||
| Tajik | tg | Tajik Team | |||
| Thai | th | Thai Team | (see team page) | ||
| Tigrinya | ti | Tigrinya Team | |||
| Tagalog | tl | Tagalog Team | |||
| Tamashek | tmh | Tamashek Team | |||
| Toki Pona | tok | Toki Pona Team | |||
| Türkçe (Turkish) | tr | Turkish Team | -- | kde-l10n-tr | |
| Tatar | tt | Tatar Team | |||
| ئۇيغۇرچە (Uyghur) | ug | Uyghur Team | |||
| Українська (Ukrainian) | uk | Ukrainian Team | -- | -- | kde-i18n-uk |
| Urdu | ur | Urdu Team | |||
| Uzbek | uz | Uzbek Team | |||
| Uzbek (Cyrillic) | uz@cyrillic | Uzbek (Cyrillic) Team | |||
| Venda | ven | Venda Team | |||
| Vietnamese | vi | Vietnamese Team | Vietnamese (vi) | kde-l10n-vi | |
| Walloon | wa | Walloon Team | write [email protected] (see team page) | ||
| Xhosa | xh | Xhosa Team | |||
| Yoruba | yo | Yoruba Team | |||
| 简体中文 (Simplified Chinese) | zh_CN | Chinese Simplified Team | Simplified Chinese (zh-cn) | -- | (see "Local Community" info) |
| Chinese (Hong Kong) | zh_HK | Chinese Hong Kong Team | |||
| 正體中文 (Traditional Chinese) | zh_TW | Chinese Traditional Team | -- | -- | |
| Zulu | zu | Zulu Team | |||