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How to request a new language to be added

This article explains how to request a new language to be added in Tatoeba. Note that this concerns the languages of the sentences, not the language of the interface. For the language of the interface, refer to the article about the interface translation.

Requirements

We add languages based on the ISO 639-3 classification. Therefore the main requirement for your language to be added in Tatoeba is that it can be identified in the ISO 639-3 list of languages.

There are currently 2 exceptions: CycL and Toki Pona. These languages are not recognized in the ISO 639-3 classification. They however exist in Tatoeba because they were added long ago, before the decision was made to follow the ISO 639-3 classification.

If your want to add sentences in a new language

  • You are allowed to add sentences in a language that is not yet supported in Tatoeba, as long as the language is listed in the ISO 639-3 classification.

  • When you add your sentences, choose the option "Auto detect" for the language.

  • After the sentences is added, if the language was not identified as "unknown" (you will see an icon with a question mark if it is), then click on the language icon and select "other language".

  • If you are adding sentences in languages that are not part of the ISO 639-3 classification, we may delete them.

  • Members of Tatoeba will regularly be checking whether or not there are sentences added in new languages, and will report new languages on GitHub.

Things you can do to help

At this point you do not need to do anything else to see your languages being someday supported in Tatoeba, but doing the following will help a lot to speed up the process:

  1. Create a list with the name of the language in English and the ISO code in parenthesis. For example: Friulian (fur). Add your sentences to this list. Make sure that the list is "collaborative".

  2. Send a private message to Ricardo14 with the following information:

    • The link to the list that you created. For example: https://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences_lists/show/4756
    • An image that can be used to visually represent the language. The final icon will be 30x20 pixels, so don't choose an image that has too much detail that won't be visible at a small scale.

Pending requests

You will find on GitHub the list of languages that have been requested but have not been added yet.

Don't hesitate to contact Ricardo14 if you don't see your language in the list.

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