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- how
- Improve Tails in your own language
Thank you for your interest in making Tails easier to use in your own language!
What you can translate
Translate Tails custom programs
You can help correct, improve, or complete the translations of Tails programs into your native language. Read translating with Hosted Weblate. Tails programs can be translated into more than 140 languages this way.
Translate this website, including the Tails documentation
Get started with translating this website.
Please focus on translating and maintaining the core pages first.
Mailing list for translators
Translators coordinate on the tails-l10n mailing list (l10n stands for localization).
This is where important changes to translatable strings are announced. So, please subscribe to the list if you want to become a regular translator:
Public archive of tails-l10n: https://lists.autistici.org/list/tails-l10n.html.
Translation teams
Currently, there are several active language teams:
Other teams are being set up:
- Turkish
If your language is not listed here, read the documentation to add a new language.
Tier-1 languages
We call "tier-1 languages" the languages that we consider the most important for our target user base:
- Languages proposed on our website
- Languages that make Tails understandable by a majority of the population of the top 10 countries of either
In March 2019 this list was:
- Arabic
- English
- Farsi
- French
- German
- Hindi
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Portuguese
- Russian
- Simplified Chinese
- Spanish
- Turkish
We are particularly interested in translations in these languages and include language packs and dictionaries by default in Tails for them.
After updating the list of tier-1 languages
After updating the list of tier-1 languages, update:
For native English speakers
Most of Tails developers are not native English speakers so you're more than welcome to correct or improve our English. Get in touch on tails-dev@boum.org.