Missing languages

Some languages are missing from the list of languages in CouchSurfing.

Speaking a language that's not listed in the CS languages menu? Please put it here by editing the page (or if editing feels too difficult, just send a CSmail to kaoxoni)

Please also add a link to the Wikipedia article about the language and the ISO-693-2 (or ISO-693-3) code.

Languages to be checked and added

• [Franco-Provençal or Arpitan or Romand]
• [Lower Sorbian]
• [Upper Sorbian]
• [Navajo Language]
• [Fula Language] , the tenth most-spoken language in Africa, with many dialects over 18 countries. 64th most-spoken in the world. Added 26 May 2008 by Nick Whipps.
• Newari aka Nepal Bhasa ,which is different from Nepali--Kaoxoni 05:52, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
• English (Guyana)
• guajibo, warao, pemón, indigenous languages spoken in Venezuela;
• Elssaesserditsch, spoken in most of Alsace, a region of France
• [Dhivehi or Divehi] - spoken in the Maldives
• [Sami language], spoken by the Sami culture in northern Scandinavia. Added 7th of April 2008 by Zalle
• [Udmurt language]. Added 28th of April 2008 by Zalle
• [Kenyan Sign Language] - even here in Pittsburgh I am friends with Kenyan Deaf who use this language.
• [Mexican Sign Language]
• [Quebec Sign Language]
• [Chinese Sign Language]
• [Taiwanese Sign Language]
• [British Sign Language]
• [French Sign Language]
• [German Sign Language]
• [Russian Sign Language]
• [German (Belgian)]
• [German (Italy)]

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This section is for languages that are mostly translated and should be available as alternate versions of the website. Please put your language up here when your translation group agrees ist is ready for the public.

Change

thread in Q vs Q

• Chinese (Mandarin) should be Chinese (Traditional) (See [1]) (this only should apply to the page translation since it is a written distinction. for spoken, mandarin should left as is. -kellenparker)

• [Change the spelling from Uighur to Uyghur]. Added 11th of June 2008 by Zalle

CodeWiz Required: Doublets to be merged

If not indicated otherwise, please keep the lower number as the common ID.

Language doublets may lead to a false 'language barrier' warning or to wrong statistics etc... in any case, it's hassle. So whoever adds a language, please always double-check if it's already existing, before you add something.

• #219 and #4 are both Albanian.
• #211 and #25 are both Croatian.
• #86 Persian (2 copies) is the same as #140 Farsi. Merge all three as Persian. Keep the version of #86 which is correctly abbreviated fas.

Changes and updates to the language database

What's been done recently:

Changed Entries

--Kaoxoni 09:19, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

• #61 'Kirghiz' was changed to 'Kyrgyz' (official spelling)
• #97 'Scots Gaelic' was renamed into 'Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig)'
• #14 'Bhutani' was corrected to Dzongkha
• #36 'West Frisian' was renamed to Frisian (ISO 639-3 fry), see talk page.
• #146, formerly 'Tamazight' (tamz) was changed to "berber" (ber) according to ISO 639-3 and to keep it simple.

New Entries

--Kaoxoni 10:21, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

• Marshallese, mah

--Kaoxoni 09:23, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

• Creole (Louisiana), lou
• French (Acadian)
• French (Cajun), frc

--Kaoxoni 07:32, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

• Egyptian Arabic مصري
• Maghrebi Arabic مغربي
• Levantine Arabic شامي
• East Arabian Arabic بحريني
• Gulf Arabic خليجي

--Kaoxoni 15:20, 24 November 2007 (UTC

• Sranan tongo srn
• Bosnian bos
• "Norwegian (Bokmål)", nob,
• "Norwegian (Nynorsk)", nno,
• Taiwanese, nan
• Cued Speech, only as a 'mother' for now. Language branches to be added on demand only
• Spanish (Venezuela), esv
• Ancient Greek, grc
• wayuu, guc

November 6, 2006:

• Limburgish, li
• Luxembourgish, ltz
• Manchu, mnc
• Mooré, mos
• Sibe,
• Tetum, tet (official language of East Timor)
• Uighur, uig
• Maori (New Zealand), Maori (Cook Islands) (see bug tracker)
• Languages spoken in the arctic like
  • inupiaq - spelled inupiak in the DB
• Creole
• spelling "Laothian" to "Lao". I've never seen Laotian spelled with an 'H.' Google says: 200,000 results versus 2,000,000 for Laotian.

March 7th, 2007 (Anu)

• persian (already in the DB)
• English (Caribbean) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribbean_English
• Creole (Haiti) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_Creole_language
• Creole (Jamaica) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaican_Creole
• Creole (Guyana) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guyanese_Creole

February 22, 2007

• Croatian (cro)
• Serbian (srb)
• Cree (cre), an Aboriginal language from Canada
• Sardinian (srd)
• Scots (sco), a sister-language of English (checked: not the same as Scots Gaelic already in the DB - "In Scotland it is sometimes called Lowland Scots to distinguish it from Scottish Gaelic")
• Low German (nds), spoken in Northern Europe and by Mennonites around the world
• Languages spoken in the arctic like.
  • inuit (iku)
  • yupik (N/A)
  • Gwich'in (gwi)
• Jamaican Patois (jam)

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--Kaoxoni 15:20, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

• Lithuanian
• Romanian
• Danish

December 13, 2006:

• Turkish

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