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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 (language code)" for language-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').

WWW translation teams

Note: these languages are included in the list of translations for kde.org.

Translation Teams
	Language Code	Team	Wiki	Chat	Mailing Lists
اللغات (Arabic)	ar	Arabic Team	--	--	kde-l10n-ar
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
Český (Czech)	cs	Czech Team	Jak překládat Kde ("How to Translate KDE" at wiki.l10n.cz)	--	kde-i18n-cs
Deutsch (German)	de	German Team	German (de)	--	kde-i18n-de
Ελληνικά (Greek)	el	Greek Team, Info			kde-i18n-el, lists.hellug.gr (INACTIVE)
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
Français (French)	fr	French Team, Info	French (fr)	--	kde-francophone
Galego (Galician)	gl	Galician Team	Galician (gl)	--	--
Magyar (Hungarian)	hu	Hungarian Team	--	--	kde-l10n-hu
Interlingua	ia	Interlingua Team, Blog	--	--	kde-l10n-ia
Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)	id	Indonesian Team	--	--	--
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
한국어 (Korean)	ko	Korean (한국어) Team	Korean (ko)	--	kde-kr
Lietuvių (Lithuanian)	lt	Lithuanian Team			kde-i18n-lt
मराठी (Marathi)	mr	Marathi Team	--	--	--
မြန်မာ (Burmese)	my	Burmese Team	--	--	kde-l10n-my
Plattdüütsch (Low Saxon)	nds	Low Saxon Team, Info
Nederlands (Dutch)	nl	Dutch Team	--	--	kde-i18n-nl
Norsk - nynorsk (Norwegian - nynorsk)	nn	Norwegian Nynorsk Team	--	--	(see team page)
Polski (Polish)	pl	Polish Team	--	--	kdei18n-pl (at SourceForge)
Português (Portuguese)	pt	Portuguese Team			kde-i18n-pt
Português brasileiro (Brazilian Portuguese)	pt_BR	Brazilian Portuguese Team	--	Matrix: #kdebrasil-traducao	kde-i18n-pt_br
Русский (Russian)	ru	Russian Team	--	--	kde-russian
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)
Svenska (Swedish)	sv	Swedish Team, Info		--	kde-l10n-tr
Türkçe (Turkish)	tr	Turkish Team		--	kde-l10n-tr
ئۇيغۇرچە (Uyghur)	ug	Uyghur Team
Українська (Ukrainian)	uk	Ukrainian Team	--	--	kde-i18n-uk
正體中文 (Traditional Chinese)	zh_TW	Chinese Traditional Team	--	--	--
简体中文 (Simplified Chinese)	zh_CN	Chinese Simplified Team	Simplified Chinese (zh-cn)	--	kde-china

Other

Translation Teams
	Language Code	Team	Wiki	Chat	Mailing Lists
Afrikaans	af	Afrikaans Team	--	--	--
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	--	--	--
Bengali	bn	Bengali Team	--	--	--
Bengali (India)	bn_IN	Bengali (India) Team	See Indian languages
Tibetan	bo	Tibetan Team	--	--	--
Breton	br	Breton Team	--	--	--
Chhattisgarhi	hne	Chhattisgarhi Team	--	--	--
Crimean Tatar (Crimean Turkish)	crh	Crimean Tatar (Crimean Turkish) Team	--	--	--
Kashubian	csb	Kashubian Team
Welsh	cy	Welsh Team
Danish	da	Danish Team	--	--	--
Dzongkha	dz	Dzongkha Team
Faroese	fo	Faroese Team
Scottish Gaelic	gd	Scottish Gaelic Team
Frisian	fy	Frisian Team			kde-i18n-fry
Irish	ga	Irish Team			(see KDE Localization link)
Gujarati	gu	Gujarati Team	See Indian languages
Hausa	ha	Hausa Team	--	--	--
Hebrew	he	Hebrew Team	--	--	kde-l10n-he
Hindi (हिन्दी)	hi	Hindi (हिन्दी) Team	[1] (at IndLinuX)	--	kde-l10n-hi
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
Armenian	hy	Armenian Team
Interlingue	ie	Interlingue Team	--	--	--
Igbo	ig	Igbo Team	--	--	--
Icelandic	is	Icelandic Team	--	--	--
Indian languages		--	KDE India	Matrix: #kde-indic:kde.org	kde-l10n-in
Georgian	ka	Georgian Team
Kabyle	kab	Kabyle Team
Kikongo	kg	Kikongo Team
Kazakh	kk	Kazakh Team
Khmer	km	Khmer Team			(see KDE Localization link)
Kannada	kn	Kannada Team, Info			kde-l10n-kn
Kurdish	ku	Kurdish Team
Kirghiz	ky	Kirghiz Team
Latin	la	Latin Team
Luxembourgish	lb	Luxembourgish Team
Lao	lo	Lao Team
Latvian	lv	Latvian Team			(see KDE Localization link)
Maithili	mai	Maithili Team			(see KDE Localization link)
Maori	mi	Maori Team
Malagasy	mg	Malagasy Team
Macedonian	mk	Macedonian Team			(see KDE Localization link)
Malayalam	ml	Malayalam മലയാളം Team	[http://wiki.smc.org.in/ Swathanthra Malayalam Computing സ്വതന്ത്ര മലയാളം കമ്പ്യൂട്ടിങ്ങ് കെ.ഡി.ഇ മലയാളം]		(see KDE Localization link)
Mongolian	mn	Mongolian Team
Marathi	mr	Marathi Team
Maltese	mt	Maltese Team
Malay	ms	Malay Team
Nepali	ne	Nepali Team
Norwegian Bokmål	nb	Norwegian Bokmål Team, Info			(see KDE Localization link)
Northern Sotho	nso	Northern Sotho Team
Occitan	oc	Occitan Team
Oriya	or	Oriya Team
Punjabi	pa	Punjabi Team, Info		Matrix: #punlinux:matrix.org
Pashto	ps	Pashto Team
Romanian	ro	Romanian Team			kde-i18n-ro
Sanskrit	sa	Sanskrit Team
Northern Sami	se	Northern Sami Team, Info (at skolelinux.no)			[email protected]
Kinyarwanda	rw	Kinyarwanda Team
Sinhala	si	Sinhala Team	--	--	kde-l10n-si
Albanian	sq	Albanian Team	--	--	kde-i18n-sq
Serbian	sr	Serbian Team, Info			kde-i18n-sr
Swati	ss	Swati Team
Swahili	sw	Swahili Team			kde-l10n-sw
Tamil	ta	Tamil Team			kde-l10n-ta
Telugu	te	Telugu Team
Thai	th	Thai Team			(see KDE Localization link)
Tigrinya	ti	Tigrinya Team
Tajik	tg	Tajik Team
Tamashek	tmh	Tamashek Team
Toki Pona	tok	Toki Pona Team
Tatar	tt	Tatar Team
Tagalog	tl	Tagalog Team
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
Chinese (Hong Kong)	zh_HK	Chinese Hong Kong Team
Zulu	zu	Zulu Team

External links

International Sites

ISO 639-2 Language Codes (Library of Congress Standards)

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