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# Greenstone language support

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There are several different levels of Greenstone language support.

1. Core languages

   English, French, Spanish, and Russian are Greenstone core languages. For these there is a full translation, including interface, documentation, sample collections, and installation instructions. They have been produced in conjunction with UNESCO and are distributed with all versions of Greenstone, including the CD-ROM version. They are updated whenever the CD-ROM is re-issued (so far, approximately once a year).

2. Supported languages

   The Greenstone interface has been translated into many languages. However, the system is growing and language interfaces become out-dated as new features are added to the software. For each language, we are hoping to find a volunteer who undertakes to periodically maintain the interface for that language. Typically only the Greenstone interface is translated, but for some languages the Greenstone Librarian Interface and other documentation is also translated.

3. In progress

   For some languages, a translator has volunteered, but the translated interface is not yet available.

When you download Greenstone, all the language interfaces come automatically. (For UNESCO CD-ROMS, only English, French, Spanish and Russian are activated. To activate the others, please see the "Enabling other languages" section of the Updating a Greenstone installation tutorial.)

Multilingual facilities are only maintained for the latest version of Greenstone. Users who have an older version without the desired language should upgrade to the latest version. Note that some language interfaces are incomplete; non-updated text appears in English.

Here is a summary of the languages currently supported:

Language | Maintainer
English | (NZDL Project)
French | (UNESCO) Georges Braoudakis
Spanish | (UNESCO) Jesús Tramullas Isabel García Soler
Russian | (UNESCO) Galina Bachmanova
Arabic | Usama Salama Kamal Salih
Armenian | Tigran Zargaryan
Bengali |
Catalan | Universitat de les Illes Balears
Chinese (Simplified) | Andrew Yan Han Kevin Fong
Chinese (Traditional) |
Croatian |
Czech | Martin Schulz
Dari | Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
Dutch | Elke Duncker-Gassen
Farsi | Mohammad Karimi Yazdi
Finnish |
Gaelic (Scottish) | Rita Campbell and Laurinda Matheson
Galician |
Georgian |
German | Sheshagiri R. Kulkarni LIS Departement of Humboldt University
Greek | Maria Tsoni
Hebrew |
Hindi | K.T Anuradha
Hungarian | Ferenc Katai
Indonesian | Paul Mundy Dewa Asmara Widjaksana
Italian | Julian Fox
Japanese | Kazuhiro Takeuchi
Kannada | K. T. Anuradha Pradeep Kumar.U.M.
Kazakh |
Kirghiz |
Latvian | Raitis Brodezhonok
Malayalam | K.T Anuradha Sanjo Jose
Maori | Te Taka Keegan
Marathi | Shubhada Nagarkar
Mongolian | Mendbayar Ichinkhorlo
Polish | Maciej Jaros
Portuguese (Brazil) |
Portuguese (Portugal) |
Pushto | Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
Romanian | Constantinescu Nicolaie
Serbian | Bogdan Trifunovic
Slovak | Tomáš Fiala
Tamil | K.T Anuradha Maruthu Pandiyan Suralinathi.M.
Telugu | K.T Anuradha Shobha Ran.P
Thai | Yenruedee Chanwirawong Neelawat Intaraksa
Turkish |
Ukrainian |
Urdu | Ata ur Rehman Tayyab Jan
Vietnamese | Integrated e-Solutions Ltd. Saigon Cao Minh Kiem

Here is a summary of the languages in progress:

Language | Translator
Azeri | Shahram Sedghi
Amharic | Yohannes Mulugeta
Bulgarian | Krum Kelov
Burmese | Kyaw Lwin
Gujarati | Vivek Bhatt
Kiswahili (Swahili) | Jason Githeko
Khmer (Cambodian) | Kosona Chriv, Smart Consulting
Oneida (Iroquoian) | Indigenous Language Institute
Sinhala (Sinhalese) | Harsha Balasooriya H.G.P S.Chaturika Dilhani
Samoan | South Pacific Hosting (a Lost Samoan business)

This page shows the current translation status of the languages.

We gratefully acknowledge the help of the many people who have done translations in the past, including Jakub Řehan (Czech), Tamara Butigan (Serbian), Maruf Hasan (Japanese and Thai), Prasenjit Majumder (Bengali), Boris Bosancic (Croatian), Steve Legrand (Finnish), Xaquín Lores (Galician), George Varamishvili (Georgian), Dimitris Gavrilis (Greek), B. S. Shivaram (Hindi and Kannada), Marco Michelino (Italian), Massimo Pesenti (Italian), Bolatbek Amanbekov (Kazakh), Fedor Bakalov (Kirghiz), Lech Borkowski (Polish), Eliel Carneiro de Oliveira (Portuguese - Brazil), José Borbinha (Portuguese - Portugal), Özcan Kabakçıoğlu (Turkish), Uğur Bulgan (Turkish), Vasyl Tanovsky (Ukrainian), Anup Poudyal (Nepali), Shu-Jen Show (Chinese - Traditional).

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