# Requirements for adding a new language **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [March 24, 2025, 4:15pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/requirements-for-adding-a-new-language/63250 "2025-03-24T16:15:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jakobs-au](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f05b48/32.png) [@jakobs-au](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/jakobs-au)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2025, 4:15pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/requirements-for-adding-a-new-language/63250/1 "2025-03-24T16:15:59Z")
Hi I would like to inquire about the possibilities of adding Greenlandic as a new language in the iNaturalist app’s features to enhance opportunities for local community reporting of observations in the Arctic. I am currently involved in a science project in Greenland, which also includes a citizen science element related to nature observations. Therefore, I am interested in exploring what it would entail if iNaturalist incorporated Greenlandic as a language option – do you think this would be possible? Perhaps we could assist in some way? Kind regards JakobStrand, Aarhus University (AU) ---
**Author:** ![cthawley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/cthawley/32/1445_2.png) [@cthawley](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/cthawley)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2025, 4:20pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/requirements-for-adding-a-new-language/63250/2 "2025-03-24T16:20:15Z")
I moved this from Feature Requests to General since it wasn’t about adding new functionality and didn’t include the Feature Requests template. Greenlandic is currently available as a lexicon on iNat, so I don’t think that there is a need to add it for common names. Info on adding lexicons can be found in this thread ([https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-create-lexicons/18195](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-create-lexicons/18195)) though that doesn’t need to be done for Greenlandic. If the question above is about the iNat site/platform itself being in Greenlandic, translation of iNat is done via CrowdIn (info: [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/introduction-to-translation-with-crowdin/23890](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/introduction-to-translation-with-crowdin/23890)) It looks like Greenlandic is available on CrowdIn, so you could help by doing any needed translation there. ---
**Author:** ![jasonhernandez74](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/jasonhernandez74/32/33615_2.png) [@jasonhernandez74](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/jasonhernandez74)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2025, 9:09pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/requirements-for-adding-a-new-language/63250/3 "2025-03-24T21:09:01Z")
> [@cthawley](#): > > Greenlandic is currently available as a lexicon on iNat, so I don’t think that there is a need to add it for common names. I will add: anyone can add common names. Go to the “taxonomy” tab on a given taxon page, scroll doen to “Names.” If there is not already a name in Greenlandic, choose “Add a name.” This will let you type in a common name, then choose the lexicon from a dropdown. There is no way to do this in a batch; all names for all taxa were added individually to the respective taxon pages. ---
**Author:** ![jakobs-au](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f05b48/32.png) [@jakobs-au](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/jakobs-au)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2025, 4:48am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/requirements-for-adding-a-new-language/63250/4 "2025-03-25T04:48:40Z")
Thanks for guiding me on this. I will closer into this and see if there still may be a need for that we may contrubute via the crowdin function. ---
**Author:** ![jakobs-au](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f05b48/32.png) [@jakobs-au](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/jakobs-au)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2025, 10:20am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/requirements-for-adding-a-new-language/63250/5 "2025-03-28T10:20:30Z")
> [@jasonhernandez74](#): > > “Add a name.” Hi - I can now see that only few species have also lexicon names in Greenlandic or Kalaallisut as inuit languages. So I was looking for how to add names in these native languages where missing - but I cannot see the “Add a name” bottom on the taxonomy page of the species. Can you guide me how to find the “add a name” buttom ? ---
**Author:** ![DianaStuder](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/dianastuder/32/43358_2.png) [@DianaStuder](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/DianaStuder)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2025, 4:50pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/requirements-for-adding-a-new-language/63250/6 "2025-03-28T16:50:28Z")
Taxonomy tab. Then scroll down, past the actual taxonomy to **Names**. ‘_Add a Name_’ is to the right. ---
**Author:** ![tiwane](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/tiwane/32/54612_2.png) [@tiwane](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/tiwane)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2025, 7:39pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/requirements-for-adding-a-new-language/63250/7 "2025-03-28T19:39:09Z")
You don’t have enough verifiable observations to meet the requirements needed to add names (this is an anti-trolling measure we added a few months ago) but I manually granted you the privilege of adding names. ---
**Author:** ![jakobs-au](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f05b48/32.png) [@jakobs-au](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/jakobs-au)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 9:53am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/requirements-for-adding-a-new-language/63250/8 "2025-04-02T09:53:31Z")
Ok, I see, thanks ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/2X/7/7831452cf7f0d653ff1ffd34176334b7ef1b6a17.png) [@system](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2025, 9:54am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/requirements-for-adding-a-new-language/63250/9 "2025-06-01T09:54:11Z")
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