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This will be the first software that I use everyday (and that I know of) that speaks my native tongue: Kabyle. It might not mean much to the rest of the world, especially since we're not that many native speakers, but I'm loving the fact that they've added it.

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Kabyle has about 20 times more native speakers than my native language, Icelandic. In contrast I have been using software in my native language for as long as I remember.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabyle_language

Well, Kabyle looks like the language of a minority in Algeria. On the other hand, Icelandic is the national (and official) language of a sovereign state. In other words, Icelandic has more cultural and financial backing, which is why it's more widespread.

By the way, I'd really love to visit Iceland some day. My cousin went there a few years back and he said it was amazing!

I can confirm that Iceland is amazing. I've actually never met anyone who's been there and didn't think it's amazing.

The only downside is that you'll always want to go back, and you'll always have a part of you be sad that you aren't there.

I hate to continue the OT but this is important. Funny to see that people feel that way about Iceland. I lived and worked in France for 6 months and I feel exactly as you describe. As an American my opinion is that life is too short to not life in France (or some place like it). Unfortunately it's unlikely I'll ever be back for any decent period of time but I do know what suits me.

Certain people like different things and cultures but now I'm convinced I must see Iceland.

Iceland is great in a different way: It's the allure of the raw force of nature. You go to Iceland and see the weather shaping things around you, and the volcanoes erupting (if you're lucky) and the northern lights shimmering in the sky. You scuba dive in a fissure where the two continental plates split apart and filled the crack with millenia-old glacier water. You see a guy with a waterfall for a yard fountain[1].

Fuck it, I'm just gonna book some tickets.

[1] https://portfolio.stavros.io/back-yard-waterfall/

In the same release they removed Belarusian. Anyone know why?

Localization is done by volunteers. If the team that is providing the translations does not complete the translations then the localization is dropped

> This locale hasn't seen any activity in almost 2 years, and we failed to revive the community effort.

> The plan is to stop building Firefox Beta and Firefox Release, and move existing users to Russian.

> I think it would also be a good idea to stop building Firefox Aurora, and remove Belarusian from product-details, but I'm open to different opinions.

- bug 1304743

"This locale hasn't seen any activity in almost 2 years, and we failed to revive the community effort."

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1307995

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1304743

As someone already explained, Mozilla localization is done completely by volunteers.

You reach a point where the amount of English strings is so high in the UI that is more confusing than helpful to ship a localized version like that. Also considering the target of localized builds.

The good news is that we can start shipping back Belarusian if there are new volunteers working on it steadily (it just happened for Georgian in 51).

There are a few working already, but they need all the help they can get https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.l10n/dxf7HliMGE4... https://pontoon.mozilla.org/be/firefox-aurora/

LibreOffice is getting there: https://translations.documentfoundation.org/kab/ https://www.facebook.com/libreoffice.aqbayli/

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