Re: Kurdish - we give it a start

[Erdal Ronahi <erdal ronahi gmail com>]

Hi Clytie, hi everybody,

thanks for the warm words. To translate software into Kurdish is a great 
challenge indeed. Although close to 40 Million people speak Kurdish, it 
could not develop well, because it has been forbidden in Turkey, where 
most Kurds live. Still it is not been taught at any state school - let 
alone university. So we have to create a wholly "new" computer 
terminology, which makes this task very difficult.

The other difficulties are, as you said, economical underdevelopment and 
little computer access. I am happy that the international free software 
community - and especially the GNOME supports all kinds of localization 
efforts. Because other players in the software market don't.

Greetings,
Erdal