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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:

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').

Translation Teams
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)
正體中文 (Traditional Chinese) zh_TW Chinese Traditional Team -- --
Chinese (Hong Kong) zh_HK Chinese Hong Kong Team
Zulu zu Zulu Team

See also

Local Communities

KDE Localization

The KDE Network

External links

International Sites

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