Welsh Language option for Steam

[Caruwr Eirin Gwlanus]

Hello everyone, I was just wondering is there any plans to translate Steam in Welsh or is anyone working on it at the moment? I'd be up for helping someone do that but I feel it would be a bit daunting on my own if there is any demand interest in it. Is there a poll or something that the moderators can set up to see roughly how much interest there is please.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Q: Will you be adding any additional languages to STS?

We do appreciate your interest in the Steam Translation Server and improving Steam for users in your region. However, we currently aren't looking into adding any further languages to STS.

https://translation.steampowered.com/

No polls on the forums please.

[wuddih]

dont worry, british english is not happening too.

[Liquid]

Only 110 000 people speak Welsh, most as a second language. It wouldn't be worth the cost or time. Id rather bug fixes

[Caruwr Eirin Gwlanus]

Originally posted by Liquid:

Only 110 000 people speak Welsh, most as a second language. It wouldn't be worth the cost or time. Id rather bug fixes

Hello, where have you got that number from? 110,000 people... Last time I checked, the population of Wales is well over 3 million and at least a 3rd of that speaks Welsh, maybe not as a first language for everyone but most of North and West speak fluent Welsh as their FIRST language believe it or not, and not all of them do speak fluent English. About half of the South speak Welsh but it isn't often a first language. Regardless, it's a very nice option.

Oh yeah, and Patagonians speak Welsh too, not sure how many of them use Steam though =P

I'd be up for doing this in the future if someone else wanted to team up or something. Anyone let me know when Steam are gonna be open to adding more languages.

No polls, gotcha ; )

[Caruwr Eirin Gwlanus]

Originally posted by wuddih:

dont worry, british english is not happening too.

British English? that's vast, considering how much slang and various other things there is, alright butt, have a chill dwt =P

[Caruwr Eirin Gwlanus]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Q: Will you be adding any additional languages to STS?

We do appreciate your interest in the Steam Translation Server and improving Steam for users in your region. However, we currently aren't looking into adding any further languages to STS.

https://translation.steampowered.com/

No polls on the forums please.

:qr:

Hello, I find it odd that Welsh isn't even considered but 'Pirate' language is being translated for Steam at the moment. Funny because I thought pirates used various languages from all over the World, or is it in a new thing like Klingon? maybe Steam should have a Klingon translation too =P

[cinedine]

Originally posted by Matthew:

Hello, I find it odd that Welsh isn't even considered but 'Pirate' language is being translated for Steam at the moment. Funny because I thought pirates used various languages from all over the World, or is it in a new thing like Klingon? maybe Steam should have a Klingon translation too =P

Pirate was a demo language and a way for English-only speakers to participate in the translation programme. And as you see on the progression bar, it is not actively maintained.

Also it doesn't matter how many people speak a language. It matters how many (potential) customers speak it. And every single Welsh speaker also speaks fluent English.

[Liquid]

Originally posted by Matthew:

Originally posted by Liquid:

Only 110 000 people speak Welsh, most as a second language. It wouldn't be worth the cost or time. Id rather bug fixes

Hello, where have you got that number from? 110,000 people... Last time I checked, the population of Wales is well over 3 million and at least a 3rd of that speaks Welsh, maybe not as a first language for everyone but most of North and West speak fluent Welsh as their FIRST language believe it or not, and not all of them do speak fluent English. About half of the South speak Welsh but it isn't often a first language. Regardless, it's a very nice option.

Oh yeah, and Patagonians speak Welsh too, not sure how many of them use Steam though =P



I'd be up for doing this in the future if someone else wanted to team up or something. Anyone let me know when Steam are gonna be open to adding more languages.

No polls, gotcha ; )

In 2004 21.7% spoke Welsh, by 2011 it had dropped to 19% and it has continued it's slow decline since. I'm Welsh, I learned Welsh in school, I barely scraped through and I have never had a conversation using Welsh outside of the classroom, in fact I would be incapable of speaking Welsh after soany decades yet despite that I am considered a Welsh speaker

I have never in my life (40 years) met a single Welsh person who doesn't speak English. Not a single one. However I have met many in South Wales who refuse to speak English to an Englishman. But that is out of rude choice not necessity. The population of Wales does not equal proportion of Welsh speakers.

Don't get me wrong, I love Wales and I'm proud to be Welsh however down in South Wales they do like to inflate their own importance. My Nain and Taid were the worse for it!

[This place sucks]

Isn't Welsh pretty much an unused / dead language even in Wales?

[Caruwr Eirin Gwlanus]

Originally posted by Liquid:

Originally posted by Matthew:

Hello, where have you got that number from? 110,000 people... Last time I checked, the population of Wales is well over 3 million and at least a 3rd of that speaks Welsh, maybe not as a first language for everyone but most of North and West speak fluent Welsh as their FIRST language believe it or not, and not all of them do speak fluent English. About half of the South speak Welsh but it isn't often a first language. Regardless, it's a very nice option.

Oh yeah, and Patagonians speak Welsh too, not sure how many of them use Steam though =P



I'd be up for doing this in the future if someone else wanted to team up or something. Anyone let me know when Steam are gonna be open to adding more languages.

No polls, gotcha ; )

In 2004 21.7% spoke Welsh, by 2011 it had dropped to 19% and it has continued it's slow decline since. I'm Welsh, I learned Welsh in school, I barely scraped through and I have never had a conversation using Welsh outside of the classroom, in fact I would be incapable of speaking Welsh after soany decades yet despite that I am considered a Welsh speaker

I have never in my life (40 years) met a single Welsh person who doesn't speak English. Not a single one. However I have met many in South Wales who refuse to speak English to an Englishman. But that is out of rude choice not necessity. The population of Wales does not equal proportion of Welsh speakers.

Don't get me wrong, I love Wales and I'm proud to be Welsh however down in South Wales they do like to inflate their own importance. My Nain and Taid were the worse for it!

Again, those stats seem very bogus. You need to get out more and travel if you've never come across any Welsh only speakers and this is coming from an almost recluse =P

I've never heard of that thing about Welsh people refusing to speak English to English tourists, sounds rude but funny hahaa.

Anyway, doesn't seem like this is gonna happen anyway sadly. It would have been a very nice option and just like plaid cymru and various other groups do, it's encouraging using Welsh more and that's never a bad thing.

[Caruwr Eirin Gwlanus]

Originally posted by I haz cold:

Isn't Welsh pretty much an unused / dead language even in Wales?

They said that about Latin but that's coming back too. A language isn't dead until it's never spoken again. And there's no need to be so negative, no one's gonna make things positive for you, you've gotta do that yourself ; )

[Liquid]

Originally posted by Matthew:

Originally posted by Liquid:

In 2004 21.7% spoke Welsh, by 2011 it had dropped to 19% and it has continued it's slow decline since. I'm Welsh, I learned Welsh in school, I barely scraped through and I have never had a conversation using Welsh outside of the classroom, in fact I would be incapable of speaking Welsh after soany decades yet despite that I am considered a Welsh speaker

I have never in my life (40 years) met a single Welsh person who doesn't speak English. Not a single one. However I have met many in South Wales who refuse to speak English to an Englishman. But that is out of rude choice not necessity. The population of Wales does not equal proportion of Welsh speakers.

Don't get me wrong, I love Wales and I'm proud to be Welsh however down in South Wales they do like to inflate their own importance. My Nain and Taid were the worse for it!

Again, those stats seem very bogus. You need to get out more and travel if you've never come across any Welsh only speakers and this is coming from an almost recluse =P

I've never heard of that thing about Welsh people refusing to speak English to English tourists, sounds rude but funny hahaa.

Anyway, doesn't seem like this is gonna happen anyway sadly. It would have been a very nice option and just like plaid cymru and various other groups do, it's encouraging using Welsh more and that's never a bad thing.

These are taken from the 2011 census. Link below. Official UK.gov site.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/culturalidentity/language/articles/languageinenglandandwales/2013-03-04#main-language-in-england-and-wales

Here's a snippet from section 7.

"In 2011, 19 per cent of people aged three and over in Wales were able to speak Welsh (562,000). 14.6 per cent of the population in Wales were able to speak, read and write Welsh. Nearly three quarters of the population in Wales had no Welsh language skills."

So it's actually less than I said before. Remember it says 19% are able to speak. Not 19% do speak.

Here's another snippet from the same site regarding the UK.

"Polish was the most common language after English1 with 546,000 people (1.0 per cent of the population) reporting it as their main language."

Polish is the most popular second spoken language in the UK with a whopping 1% speaking it. Come on... Welsh is less than 1%.

[[E]wanJ]

Im sure back when csgo first started they had a welsh option because i was using it then not long later it was back to english? might have been dreaming. Welsh is a dying language sadly me as a welshman can say but i would prefer the option for welsh as id be using it more often myself. Hardly speak welsh due to all my friends being first language english second welsh

[AmsterdamHeavy]

I thought that I recently read that the Welsh dont even really speak Welsh anymore.