On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 09:42:44AM +0100, Mikael Sundmark wrote: > The Swedish (SV) openSUSE.org http://sv.opensuse.org was "launched" on > Friday, so a new language site added to the list > of present openSUSE sites; English, French, Spanish and German. > > Should we announce this in any way or what is the process.
It would be nice to have such things on the frontpage of the existing languages as a newsitem. It shows that openSUSE is working on internationalisation and can be used to promote it and ask for more people to join. Either with existing languages or with new languages. It would be a great oportunity to explain where we are now and what has to be done. The numbers: Number of living languages, worldwide: 6,809 Number of "nearly extinct" languages: 417 http://www.ppionline.org/ppi_ci.cfm?knlgAreaID=108&subsecID=900003&contentID=253189 More on http://www.ethnologue.com/country_index.asp So we have a long way to go. :-D However if you look at your owb country, you see that dialects are called a language as well. Belgium is indicated as having 10 languages. Either way too many or way too few. Another example: The number of languages listed for Brazil is 235. Of those, 188 are living languages and 47 are extinct. So there is still a lot to do. :-) houghi -- Nutze die Zeit. Sie ist das Kostbarste, was wir haben, denn es ist unwiederbringliche Lebenszeit. Leben ist aber mehr als Werk und Arbeit, und das Sein wichtiger als das Tun - Johannes Müller-Elmau --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
