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Too bad there's no Japanese or Korean translation :(

Which is especially surprising when they have a Japanese character in the logo.

>Too bad there's no Japanese or Korean translation :(

It's interesting that they have Icelandic, a language spoken by 350,000 people. I'm often surprised seeing Icelandic has a full audio dub on a Disney or Netflix movies, above languages spoken by 100X or more speakers. That can't be an economic decision.

Anyone know why Icelandic punches above its own weight? Or is it because it has so few speakers that people do dubs to help preserve it?

I don’t know about Disney, but in (European centred) machine translation we often pick Icelandic and Maltese as first languages to do specifically because they’re small but familiar enough as tests for the pipeline.

The engine is funded by the European Union so it prioritizes translators for European languages over Japanese.

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