Table: Languages to Subtitle for Vanimedia

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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.

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