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Datum: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 23:22:38 +0100
Von: Martin Schlander
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Hi Martin, here are some countries, which take part in the one laptop per child project (laptop.org) and some which are developing countries in Afrika and Asia with a higher population. I compared the existing of their language for the wiki and for the DVD-ISO. MOST DEVELOPED LANGUAGES FOR OPENSUSE http://i18n.opensuse.org/stats/openSUSE-10.2/toplist.php MOST USED LANGUAGES BY POPULATION http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:Sprachfamilien_der_Welt_(non_Altai).png THE RESULT IS: We need Translations in Chinese (already done in iso, wiki done, needs to be published on Homepage) and then in: - Hindi for India - Afro-Asiatic for Afrika Nord - Niger-congo for Afrika Middle - Arabic for several countries in th Arabic world - Indonesia - Pakistan This means: (CHINESE;) HINDI; AFRO-Africa, ARABIC I suggest, there is an empty wiki to be set up to be filled in. Then maybe Novell can additionally employee 3 Persons from India, Afrika and Arabia to do the basic translations for one year. This investment is needed, to get 2000 Million target groups. Thanks! Here it is in details: STATUS: NEED AN ISO PLUS WIKI INSTANT India / Hindi / 1103 Mio / Iso no / Wiki No Afro-Asiatic / Afro-Asiatic / 300 MIO / ISO NO / WIKI NO http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Asiatic_languages Niger-Congo / 250 MIO / ISO NO / WIKI NO http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger-Congo_languages Indonesia / Indonesian / 222 Mio / ISO NO / WIKI NO Pakistan / Urdu / 168 Millions / ISO NO / WIKI NO Philippines / Filipino & English / 85 Mio / ISO No / WIKI NO South Africa / Afrikaans / 44 Mio / ISO No / WIKI NO Tanzania / Swahili / 37 Mio / ISO NO / WIKI NO Khoisan / Khoisan / 25 MIO / ISO NO / WIKI NO Cambodia / Khmer / 14 Million / ISO NO / WIKI NO Nilo-Saharan / Nilo-Saharan / 11 Mio / ISO NO / WIKI NO Rwanda / Kinyarwanda / 9 Millions / ISO NO / WIKI NO STATUS: NEED A FURTHER ISO TRANSLATION AND WIKI Egypt / Arabic & Masri / 78 Millions / ISO 6 % / WIKI NO Ethiopia / Amharic / 75 MIo / ISO NO / WIKI NO Sudan / Arabic / 36 Mio / ISO 6 % / Wiki NO Morocco / Arabic / 33 Mio / ISO 6 % / Wiki NO Algeria / Arabic / 32 mio / ISO 6 % / WIKI & % Iraq / Arabic / 28 Mio / ISO 6 % / Wiki NO Saudi Arabia / Arabic / 28 Mio / ISO 6 % / WIKI NO Libya / Arabic / 5 Millions / ISO 6% / WIKI NO Tunisia / Arabic / 10 Millions / ISO 6 % / WIKI NO Arabic = 259 Mio Plus Vietnam / Vietnamese / 85 MIo / ISO 16 % / WIKI No STATUS: WIKI & ISO = OK Brazilian / Portuguese / 188 Millions / ISO OK / WIKI 91 % Nigeria / English / 133 Millions / ISO OK / WIKI OK Turkey / Turkish / 72 Mio / ISO 57 % / Wiki OK DR of Congo / French / 63 Mio / ISO OK / WIKI OK Argentina / Spanish / 40 Millions / ISO OK / WIKI OK Kenya / Swahili, English / 34 MIo / ISO OK / WIKI OK Venezuela / Spanish / 27 Millions / ISO OK / WIKI OK Uganda / English, Swahili / 27 Mio / ISO OK / WIKI OK Mozambique / Portuguese / 19 MIO / ISO OK / WIKI OK Cameroon / French & English / 16 Mio / ISO OK / WIKI oK Senegal/ French / 11 Mio / ISO Ok / WIKI OK Dominican Republic / Spanish / 9 Millions / ISO OK / WIKI OK Costa Rica / Spanish / 4 Millions / ISO OK / WIKi OK Thailand / Spanish / 3 Millions / ISO OK / WIKI OK Uruguay / Spanish / 3 Millions / ISO OK / WIKI OK Study the main languages of Afrika: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa This analysis is my contribution to get rid of microsoft and an open source suse worldwide ;-) so.. maybe some indian, afro-asian or arabic persons can help to translate.. -- "Feel free" - 5 GB Mailbox, 50 FreeSMS/Monat ... Jetzt GMX ProMail testen: www.gmx.net/de/go/mailfooter/promail-out --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-translation+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-translation+help@opensuse.org