Table: Languages to Subtitle for Vanimedia

Tables

In these tables - with sortable columns - is information relating to the Multi-language subtitle project of Vanimedia. You can read about the whole project here and some instructions for translators here.

• Clips to Subtitle
• Translating Teams for Vanimedia
• Multi-language Subtitle Results
• YouTube Videos With Themes
• Spreadsheet of Results
• Vaniquotes Pages

Introduction

This table Languages to Subtitle for Vanimedia shows the languages that we hope to translate Srila Prabhupada's audio clips in. It also gives the family the language belongs to, the number of speakers in the millions and in which geographical area the languages are spoken. In Dotsub, the online translating program that we use for subtitling, 508 languages are supported. There is no lack of languages to translate and Srila Prabhupada instructed his GBC that printing and translation must continue, stating "this is my request." So here is practical way to please Srila Prabhupada very much.

You can find out about the Multi-language subtitle project of Vanimedia here.

If you want to translate a language that is not mentioned here, then contact us at multi-language@no spam, thanks-vanipedia.org and we will include it as well.

Languages

Pos	Language	Family	Script	Speakers (Millions)	Where Spoken (Major)
01	Mandarin	Sino-Tibetan	Chinese Characters	1151	Asia - China, Malaysia, Taiwan
02	English	Indo-European	Latin	1000	USA, UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand
03	Spanish	Indo-European	Latin	500	Europe - Mexico, Central and South America, Spain
04	Hindi	Indo-European	Devanagari	490	India - North and Central
05	Russian	Indo-European	Cyrillic	277	Europe - Russia, Central Asia
06	Arabic	Afro-Asiatic	Arabic	255	Asia - Middle East, Arabia, North Africa
07	Portuguese	Indo-European	Latin	240	Europe - Brazil, Portugal, Southern Africa
08	Bengali	Indo-European	Bengali	215	India - Eastern, Bangladesh
09	French	Indo-European	Latin	200	Europe - France, Canada, West Africa, Central Africa
10	Malay, Indonesian	Malayo-Polynesian	Latin	175	SE Asia - Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore
11	German	Indo-European	Latin	166	Europe - Germany, Austria, Central Europe
12	Swahili	Niger-Congo	Latin, Arabic	140	Africa - Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda
13	Japanese	Altaic	Chinese and 2 Japanese Alphabets	132	SE Asia - Japan
14	Farsi (Persian)	Indo-European	Nastaliq	110	Asia - Iran, Afghanistan
15	Urdu	Indo-European	Nastaliq	104	India - Pakistan
16	Punjabi	Indo-European	Gurumukhi	103	India - Pakistan
17	Wu	Sino-Tibetan	Chinese Characters	90	Asia - China
18	Vietnamese	Austroasiatic	Based on Latin	86	SE Asia - Vietnam, China
19	Javanese	Malayo-Polynesian	Javanese	85	SE Asia - Indonesia
20	Tamil	Dravidian	Tamil	78	India - South, Sri Lanka, Malyasia
21	Korean	Altaic	Hangul	78	SE Asia - Korean Peninsula
22	Turkish	Altaic	Latin	75	Asia - Turkey
23	Telugu	Dravidian	Telugu	74	India - South
24	Marathi	Indo-European	Devanagari	72	India - West
25	Italian	Indo-European	Latin	62	Europe - Italy, Central Europe
26	Thai	Sino-Tibetan	Thai	60	SE Asia - Thailand, Laos
27	Cantonese	Sino-Tibetan	Chinese Characters	55	Asia - Southern China
28	Kannada	Dravidian	Kannada	47	India - South
29	Gujarati	Indo-European	Gujarati	46	India - West, Kenya
30	Polish	Indo-European	Latin	46	Europe - Poland, Central Europe
31	Hausa	Afro-Asiatic	Latin, Arabic	43	Africa - Cameroon, Ghana, Niger, Nigeria, Sudan
32	Burmese	Sino-Tibetan	Burmese	42	SE Asia - Burma, Thailand, Malaysia
33	Pashto	Indo-European	Arabic	40	Asia - Pakistan, Aghanistan
34	Sundanese	Austronesian	Latin	39	SE Asia - Indonesia
35	Malayalam	Dravidian	Malayalam	38	India - Kerala
36	Ukrainian	Indo-European	Cyrillic	37	Europe - Ukraine
37	Oriya	Indo-European	Oriya	33	India - Odisha
38	Marwari	Indo-European	Devanagari	31	India - Rajasthan, Pakistan
39	Dutch	Indo-European	Latin	28	Europe - Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname
40	Haryanvi	Indo-European	Devanagari	28	India - Haryana, Delhi
41	Romanian	Indo-European	Latin	28	Europe - Romania, Moldova
42	Tagalog	Austronesian	Latin	28	SE Asia - Phillipines
43	Yoruba	Niger-Congo	Latin	28	Africa - Benin, Nigeria
44	Sindhi	Indo-European	Arabic, Khudabadi, Laṇḍā	26	India - Pakistan India, Singapore
45	Afrikaans	Indo-European	Latin	23	South Africa
46	Nepali	Indo-European	Devanagari	17	India - Nepal, Bhutan
47	Sinhalese	Indo-European	Sinhala	16	Asia - Sri Lanka
48	Assamese	Indo-European	Assamese	15	India - Assam
49	Hungarian	Uralic	Latin	15	Europe - Hungary
50	Greek	Indo-European	Greek	13.1	Europe - Greece, Cyprus
51	Chittagonian	Indo-European	Bengali?	13	Asia - Bangladesh
52	Azerbaijani, South	Turkic	Arabic	12	Asia - Iran
53	Akan	Niger-Congo	Latin	11	Ghana, Ivory Coast
54	Czech	Indo-European	Latin	10	Europe - Czech Republic
55	Zulu	Niger-Congo	Latin	10	South Africa
56	Bulgarian	Indo-European	Cyrillic	9.1	Europe - Balkans
57	Swedish	Indo-European	Latin	8.7	Europe - Sweden, Finland
58	Xhosa	Niger-Congo	Latin	7.9	South Africa
59	Albanian	Indo-European	Latin	7.6	Europe - Albania
60	Armenian	Indo-European	Armenian	7	Europe - Armenia
61	Slovak	Indo-European	Latin	7	Europe - Slovakia, Czech Republic
62	Mongolian	Mongolic	Mongolian, Cyrilllic	5.7	Asia - Mongolia, China
63	Danish	Indo-European	Latin	5.6	Europe - Denmark, Greenland
64	Croatian	Indo-European	Latin	5.5	Europe - Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia
65	Hebrew	Afro-Asiatic	Hebrew	5.3	Asia - Israel
66	Finnish	Uralic	Latin	5	Europe - Finland
67	Norwegian	Indo-European	Latin	5	Europe - Norway
68	Northern Sotho	Niger-Congo	Latin	4.1	South Africa
69	Lithuanian	Indo-European	Latin	3.2	Europe - Lithuania
70	Macedonian	Indo-European	Cyrillic	2.5	Europe - Macedonia
71	Slovenian	Indo-European	Latin	2.5	Europe - Slovenia
72	Latvian	Indo-European	Latin	1.5	Europe - Latvia
73	Estonian	Uralic	Latin	1	Europe - Estonia