On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 12:37 +0200, Erdal Ronahi wrote: > Hi Clytie, hi everybody, > > thanks for the warm words. To translate software into Kurdish is a great > challenge indeed. Although close to 40 Million people speak Kurdish, it > could not develop well, because it has been forbidden in Turkey, where > most Kurds live. Still it is not been taught at any state school - let > alone university. So we have to create a wholly "new" computer > terminology, which makes this task very difficult.
I'm not aiming to start a political discussion in here, but just want to fix a misinformation. This is to say 'Kurdish' is not forbidden in Turkey. It's just Turkey only let broadcasting and education in Turkish, in past. That's not special to 'Kurdish' or any other language. After language revolution of Turkey in 1938 people forced to use only Turkish with new form. Of course that was obsolate in new century where everyone is talking/using modern Turkish. During EU process Turkish Gov. let any minority to use its language in education and broadcasting with government permission. And that's the case in any other EU country (maybe even with broader rights). Though using Kurdish computer programmes were never forbidden in Turkey. Thus blaming Turkey for poor Kurdish support is kind of vague. > > The other difficulties are, as you said, economical underdevelopment and > little computer access. I am happy that the international free software > community - and especially the GNOME supports all kinds of localization > efforts. Because other players in the software market don't. I personally support every attemt to localize software for local market/usage. Kurdish is no exception. You can get support from our mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] And for sending Kurdish translations untill your cvs account will be ready, you can send your files to me and I can commit them to CVS. > > Greetings, > Erdal > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-i18n mailing list > gnome-i18n@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n > _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
