Suggested language list improvements

General
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Windows 7
Firefox
https://www.inaturalist.org/

At bottom right of screen you can select a language from this list (in 3 screenshots here):
Lang1
Lang2
Lang3

When you cursor-hover over a language name, its name in English pops up (or in whatever language has already been selected).

Assumptions:

  1. The names should all have an uppercase initial.
  2. The languages should not duplicate each other.
  3. Each language name should be listed in its own language (not in English, e.g.).
  4. The names should be in alphabetical order, using the English alphabet. For languages written in other alphabets, such as Hebrew, the English name is used for sorting.

Problems:
A. The list is not in correct order.
B. Some names are all lowercase.
C. “bahasa Indonesia” should just be “Indonesian”, as the word “bahasa” means language.
D. Some languages are superfluous, as they bring up translations of the screen that hardly differ. Examples:

  1. Spanish (Argentina) produces a screen that is the same as Spanish, except for 3 accent marks, the use of DONA instead of DONAR (“donate” vs. “to donate”), and the use of “conectate” instead of “conecta” (“you connect” vs. “connect”).
  2. Spanish (Colombia) produces a screen same as Spanish, except for DONAR.
  3. Spanish (Mexico) produces a screen same as Spanish, except for “hallazos” instead of “observaciones” (“findings” vs “observations”), “Acerca de” instead of “Acerca” (both mean About), and “condiciones” instead of “términos” (“conditions” vs “terms”).
  4. Basque, Macedonian, Occitan and Albanian all bring up screens entirely in English with the sole exception of translating SIGN UP).
  5. French (Canada) shows the same as French except for “Notre blogue” instead of “Notre blog”.
  6. Portuguese (Brazil) shows the exact same screen as Portuguese.

Suggested revised language list:
(“xxx” in the first column refers to the name of the language in its own alphabet, which I don’t attempt to reproduce here. The second column is the name in English as shown in the hover popup.)
xxx … [Arabic]
xxx … [Bulgerian]
Català …[Catalan]
xxx … [Chinese (Simplified)]
xxx … [Chinese (Traditional)]
xxx … [Czech]
Dansk … [Danish]
Nederlands … [Dutch]
Deutsch … [German]
xxx … [Greek]
English … [English]
Esperanto … [Esperanto]
Eesti … [Estonian]
Suomi … [Finnish]
Français …[French]
Galego … [Galician]
xxx … [Hebrew]
Magyar … [Hungerian]
Indonesian … [Indonesian]
Italiano … [Italian]
xxx … [Japanese]
xxx … [Korean]
xxx … [Latvian]
xxx … [Lithuanian]
xxx … [Luxembourgish]
xxx… [Norwegian Bokmal]
Polski … [Polish]
Português … [Portuguese]
xxx … [Russian]
xxx … [Slovak]
Español … [Spanish]
Svenska … [Swedish]
xxx … [Turkish]
xxx … [Ukranian]

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I expect that the words that are shown are choosen by the translators, not by staff.

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inat translations are open source and provided by volunteers, so for many languages only a partial translation of the site is available, they are not created by iNat staff
in the same way, duplicate language exist because someone added them, to reflect minor variations of a language used in different countries

also bahasa Indonesia is the actual name of the language in indonesian, so having it listed as “indonesian” would mean using the english name

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Hi @carumba, translation changes are made at Crowdin. You can learn more about the process here: https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/translate

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