Language

The choice of languages is a feature that was introduced in weekly snapshot 11w49a and officially released in Minecraft 1.1. The language menu is accessible via a new button in the main menu to the left of the options button, and from the options menu.

History
Here is a table that summarizes the modifications of languages through the updates :

Available languages
As of version 1.1, there are 56 languages, which are, in the order they appear in in the menu :

Upcoming languages
This is a list of all the upcoming languages that are listed on the official Minecraft translation project page :


 * English (Australian)
 * Indonesian
 * Irish

Bugs & Inaccuracy

 * Bulgarian is doubled, and both are wrong — as български (means Bulgarian, but written from the small letter instead of the capital one) and as Английски (written from the capital letter, but means English). The Ukrainian language has a similar problem - a list he called "Англійська" (English). The same applies to the Basque, Greek, Icelandic and Romanian language...
 * In some languages, the text is too long and overfills the button it is written on.
 * Splash texts are not translated and therefore will show up in English.
 * In Canadian English, the "Benchmarking" achievement description is bugged. Also, Gray and Light Gray Wool spell the word "Grey", but the dye spells it "Gray".
 * Many Turkish translations contain obscenities, which were contributed by trolls.
 * There are some critical mistakes in some of the Translations, like Hebrew.
 * The UK English and Canadian English use the other languages code.
 * I.E: Name = Canadian English, Language code = en_GB and vice versa.

Trivia

 * Minecraft is available in three fictive languages : Klingon (Klingon language from Star Trek), Pirate (Internet language) and Quenya (Elvish language from Lord of the Rings).

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