Posted: Saturday, January 7th, 2006 at 8:28 am. Filed in International, Language, Localization, Translation, WordPress.com.
What’s your language?
No, it’s not a bad pickup line — it’s the hot new question WordPress.com is asking you. We’ve been amazed with the international pickup of WordPress.com, and we want to enable some more features for those users.
As a first step were letting people self-classify the primary language of their blog. So for example if you blog mostly in Chinese, you would choose that as your blog’s primary language.
You can set your blog’s primary language under Options in your blog admin. We’re also collecting this data from new signups.
In the future we’ll use this data to create unique top blog lists, top posts lists, tag clouds, and more on a per-language basis.
In the future we’ll investigate different language forums, and actual translation of WordPress.com and the backend interface. All in good time. 
January 7th, 2006 at 10:23 am
Wow, when I was making coffee just now I was thinking there should be an option where you specify the language of your blog, just like you do in a regular HTML-document. I sit down at my computer, go to wordpress.com and BAM, there it is. Great!
January 7th, 2006 at 10:45 am
it was GREAT!
January 7th, 2006 at 1:15 pm
WordPress is awesome!
Thank you for providing such a wonderful product and service.
I blog primarily in English but I would love to be able to post in Chinese, since I am trying to teach it to myself.
Thanks again and keep up the Great Work!
January 7th, 2006 at 3:49 pm
It’d be awesome if you do some pings to known spanish blog directories, such as bitacoras.net, and blogalaxia.
January 8th, 2006 at 5:21 pm
Thanks for these useful options. However the blogging language I use, HÅ?-ló-oÄ“(also called Taiwanese, a varient of Min-nan), is not included.
http://www.answers.com/topic/taiwanese-linguistics
http://www.answers.com/topic/min-nan
http://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/
January 8th, 2006 at 5:29 pm
Thanks for these useful options. However my blogging language “HÅ?-ló-oÄ“”(Taiwanese), a variant of Min-nan(Bân-lâm-gú), is not included in the list.
Reference:
http://www.answers.com/topic/taiwanese-linguistics
http://www.answers.com/topic/min-nan
http://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/
January 8th, 2006 at 5:46 pm
Very great news now the only thing is though i dont post stuff in my language can i still keep that as my primary language i mostly post in English
January 8th, 2006 at 8:13 pm
As a multi-lingual person, no doubt being able to blog in a few languages would be of great benefit to me.
Keep up the good work folks.
January 8th, 2006 at 11:19 pm
Please add “Vietnamese” as one of the language, pretty please!!!
January 9th, 2006 at 1:00 pm
Perfect thanks very much for el Hellenic Support Mat Respect.
January 10th, 2006 at 10:27 am
Great work.
Expecting it for a long time.
January 10th, 2006 at 10:35 pm
That’s great. I don’t know where I can find a list of Spanish blogs on WordPress though.
January 11th, 2006 at 1:01 am
i blog in english, but it’d be nice to use korean.
January 11th, 2006 at 6:35 am
虽然我是ä¸å›½äººchinaese，我想用英文的BLOG，æ?¥æ›´å¥½åœ°å¦ä¹ 英文。谢谢大家。
January 11th, 2006 at 6:46 am
FANTASTIC!!
January 11th, 2006 at 7:42 am
这个主�很好。
This is a great idea.
January 11th, 2006 at 11:07 am
This blog is great ,my prime language is chinese ,but if you can provide chinese ,that is wonderful.
thanks a lot.
January 11th, 2006 at 11:15 pm
Merci
January 12th, 2006 at 7:58 am
Really great!
My primary language is Chinese. Though I have no problem using this blog in English, it will be great if I can see the familiar Chinese characters.
Good job and thanks!!
January 12th, 2006 at 12:59 pm
Excellent! In the meantime, as I was not able to adapt my template to Hebrew here, I started translating and adapting (inversing right and left contents) a template in blogspot first (www.shiatsuhebrew.blospot.com), but as I prefer WordPress by far I am translating and converting to rtl rational (you pick first what is at your right) a blog in blogsome (http://shiatsuhebrew.blogsome.com/). If you allow the possibility to work in different languages here, including rtl languages, I’ll be here, no doubt, and I guess I won’t be the only one! It would also allow for different language communities to co-exist under one roof and interact at a meta level. It will be awesome!
January 12th, 2006 at 5:37 pm
If you need my help, I am ready to start translating WordPress into Ukrainian.
January 13th, 2006 at 3:13 am
Cool! Can help with Russian, if you want
January 14th, 2006 at 7:34 am
French. Localized themes would be really great (translations for WP2.0 already exist, shouldn’t be a lot of work for the translation team to adapt them to WP.com).
Being able to set the language on a per-post basis would be great for all us multilingual people.
January 14th, 2006 at 2:24 pm
Very nice, maybe there will be some new options for other languages than English. If the interface will be available in some other languages too this will be absolutely great
January 14th, 2006 at 5:09 pm
Une très bonne chose. Peut-être une sélection de blogs (blogues en bon français) dans la langue de l’utilisateur.
January 14th, 2006 at 7:02 pm
I can only find language for simplified Chinese but my language is traditional Chinese.
January 16th, 2006 at 11:42 am
It’s great to find that Farsi (= Persian) was added to the list of languages! Thanks!
January 18th, 2006 at 2:09 am
I can help with Russian language too.
January 18th, 2006 at 9:17 pm
Bardzo się cieszę, że WordPress myśli poważnie o użytkownikach, którzy chcą pisać w językach innych niż anglielski. Oby tak dalej!
January 18th, 2006 at 9:25 pm
Thanks for wordpress.com
Multi-lingual blogs obviously need a per-post language setting.
My requirements are the following : define a set of languages most often used by readers, and provide dynamic/automatic translation from the post language to the target reader’s language (e.g. with babelfish).
Moreover, I would like my co-bloggers and/or readers to suggest translations for existing pages/posts, which would (somehow) appear in the admin interface pages and be processed by a translate-edit-validate-post workflow managed by the admin (me) to replace the previous automatic translation by a more serious man-made translation.
I hope you look into this. Keep up the good work.
January 18th, 2006 at 10:19 pm
Agradezco la posibilidad que me concede WordPress.com para expresarme en español; no sólo porque el español es mi lengua materna, sino poque me facilitará la comunicación con millones de personas con las que comparto lengua y cultura, y con las que de otro modo no tendrÃa dificultades para entenderme.
Muchas gracias.
January 20th, 2006 at 6:47 am
Where is turkish
January 22nd, 2006 at 3:44 pm
Japanese/English and more!!!!!
January 23rd, 2006 at 8:06 am
Just wondering where Pilipino/Tagalog fits into all this. Usually I use both English and Tagalog for postings, and a dash of the regional dialect, Hiligaynon, here and there. But then people who do read my blog would have to be pure-bred Filipinos. Foreigners won’t understand some of the posts.
January 24th, 2006 at 1:48 am
Organic Thailand…too…
February 2nd, 2006 at 3:30 pm
Persian (Farsi)
April 21st, 2006 at 9:59 am
Hi every body,
why you don’t ask public help to participate in thmes designing in our languages?
we can help to deisgn themes for Persian, Yeah!
July 24th, 2006 at 1:26 pm
I’m eagerly waiting to see Farsi (Persian) in the list of UI languages.
August 11th, 2006 at 7:08 am
My language is Dutch. Spoken in The Netherlands and the “Flemish” part of Belgium. Small countries, a tiny language. Moste young people speak a mouthfull of English.In Belgium is French the second language, spoken in “Wallonnië”.
In Belgium blogging is very popular, also for older people who are really interested in all about the internet. a young man started up a site for “senioren” that’s really extremely succesfull.
Dutch information and translatations are really important for older people and people with lower education, so although we are a small group, the need for Dutch translations is high!
With thanks and keep up the good work!
September 10th, 2006 at 7:24 pm
Hi Matt,
I really accept robo comment!
why you don’t ask public help to participate in theme designing in our languages?!
we can help to design themes for Persian, Yeah!
February 1st, 2007 at 9:25 pm
my language is turkish.
March 23rd, 2007 at 2:11 am
Norwegian would be useful.