Facebook Translations has been a great success, and we're always looking to add new languages to help even the smallest cultures connect with everyone around them. Given that today is International Talk like a Pirate Day, we figured there was no better way to reach out to the Pirate community other than to offer Facebook in their native tongue. English (Pirate) is now available for all users to use, and if you'd like to help keep Pirate speak shipshape, visit http://facebook.com/translations and join the other translators.
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- by Chad Little on Friday, September 19, 2008 at 9:34am
- by Chad Little on Monday, June 23, 2008 at 12:18pmSee More
Five months ago, we launched the first translated version of Facebook in Spanish. Since then, the internationalization team and its community translators have been busy translating the site into sixteen more languages. We now support—among others—French, German, Japanese, Chinese, and Italian. You can see the full list of languages, or change your language settings, from the language selector in the footer on any page.
Our goal is to support Facebook in the native language of all our users and people who want to use the site. In this regard,... we've received requests from thousands of people who want to help translate Facebook into languages beyond the sixteen released languages and the eight that are in the process of being translated.
Based on this feedback, we opened 55 new languages this week for translation by the community. Now native speakers can use our Translations application to translate Facebook into additional Asian languages (Malaysian, Vietnamese), African dialects (Zulu, Xhosa), regional varieties (British English, Canadian French) and even rarely spoken languages, such as Latin and Esperanto.
The most important factor in all of this has been the hardworking communities that spend their time getting Facebook ready to be used in every language across the world. Without them, this process would be much more difficult. We're working hard to continue to open even more languages for translation, so stay tuned.
Chad is a Facebook designer and is looking forward to translating Facebook into leet speak.
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