[Localization] Language lists

[Edward Cherlin]

Can we reorganize the main Pootle page? It currently lists languages
in alphabetical order in one paragraph. That's difficult to search
visually.

Languages
Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Aymara, Basque, Bengali, Bengali (India),
Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese
(Taiwan), Czech, Danish, Dari, Dutch, Dzongkha, English, English
(South African), English (US), Finnish, French, Friulian, Fula,
Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hausa, Hindi, Icelandic,
Igbo, Italian, Japanese, Kinyarwanda, Korean, Macedonian, Malayalam,
Maltese, Marathi, Mongolian, Nepali, Pashto, Persian, Polish,
Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Punjabi, Quechua, Romanian, Russian,
Serbian, Sinhala, Slovenian, Sotho, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu,
Templates, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Wolof, Yoruba,
pseudo L10n


I don't know what the best arrangement would be. Perhaps we could
offer a separate listing for each obvious choice: alphabetic, by
country or region, by writing system? Here is a possible arrangement,
with suggestions for other languages needed, some immediately, more
later on. It would be helpful, I think, to have more and clearer
invitations in the Wiki and on Pootle for members of these communities
to start on their languages.

Americas: English, English (US), French, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish,
Dutch (need Haitian Creole French/Kreyol)
Native American: Aymara, Quechua (several dialects) (need others)

Europe: Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan (Catalonia in Spain), Czech,
Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Friulian (Italy), Galician, German,
Greek, Icelandic, Italian, Macedonian, Romanian, Russian, Spanish,
Polish, Portuguese, Serbian (Cyrillic), Slovenian, Swedish, (need
Croatian (Latin), Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Slovak,
others)

Africa: Fula, Kinyarwanda, Wolof, (need Swahili, many others). Also
languages of former imperial powers: English, French, Spanish,
Portuguese, German, Italian
Arab countries: Arabic (need Berber languages)
Nigeria: Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba (need Edo, Efik, Adamawa Fulfulde, Idoma,
Central Kanuri)
South Africa: Afrikaans, English (South African) (need Ndebele,
Northern Sotho, Southern Sotho, Swati, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa,
Zulu)
Ethiopia: Amharic (need Tigrinya)

Asia: Japanese, Korean, Mongolian (Cyrillic), Nepali, Persian/Farsi,
Sinhala, Thai, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese (need Divehi, Khmer, Laotian,
Mongolian (Traditional script), Malaysian, Myanmar, Sindhi,
Vietnamese)
Afghanistan: Dari, Pashto (need Hazaragi, Aimaq)
Bangladesh: Bengali
China: Chinese (China), Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Taiwan),
Dzongkha (need Cantonese, Tibetan, Uighur, Yi, others)
India: Bengali (India), Gujarati, Hindi, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi,
Tamil, Telugu (need the rest of the official "scheduled" languages:
Assamese, Bodo, Dogri, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Meitei,
Nepali, Oriya, Sanskrit, Santali, Sindhi, Urdu)
Former Soviet Union: Georgian, Ukrainian (need Armenian, Azeri,
Belarusian, Kazakh, Tajik, Turkmen, Uzbek, others)

Other: Maltese, pseudo L10n (need Kurdish (Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey),
Tagalog, Indonesian, others)


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Edward Cherlin
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