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).
 * 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.

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).
 * An early bug that came with the implementation of languages made right-to-left languages (at this time Arabic and Hebrew) be written left-to-right, causing it to be unreadable. This was fixed in version 1.1.

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