The choice of languages is a feature that was introduced in weekly snapshot 11w49a and will be added in Minecraft 1.1.0. The language menu is accessable via a new button in the main menu to the left of the options button, and from the options menu.
Available Languages
As of weekly snapshot 11w50a, there are 28 languages (36 if you count the different dialects of each language), which are, in alphabetical order :
| Language | Dialects available | Official language in | Added in |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bulgarian | - | Bulgaria | 11w49a (1.1.0) |
| Chinese | - | China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Macau. | 11w49a (1.1.0) |
| Croatian | - | Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina. | 11w49a (1.1.0) |
| Czech | - | Czech Republic | 11w49a (1.1.0) |
| Danish | - | Denmark, Faroe Islands. | 11w49a (1.1.0) |
| Dutch | - | Netherlands, Belgium, Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten, Suriname. | 11w49a (1.1.0) |
| English | American, British, Canadian. | United Kingdom, USA, Canada, Ireland, Australia, Singapore .... | 11w49a (1.1.0) |
| Estonian | - | Estonia | 11w49a (1.1.0) |
| Finnish | - | Finland | 11w49a (1.1.0) |
| French | Canadian, French. | France, Belgium, Canada, Monaco, Switzerland, .... | 11w49a (1.1.0) |
| German | Austrian, German. | Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Italy, Luxembourg, Belgium. | 11w49a (1.1.0) |
| Hebrew | - | Israel | 11w49a (1.1.0) |
| Hungarian | - | Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, Serbia, Austria, Romania, Ukraine, Croatia. | 11w49a (1.1.0) |
| Icelandic | - | Iceland | 11w49a (1.1.0) |
| Italian | - | Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, Malta, Croatia, Slovenia. | 11w49a (1.1.0) |
| Japanese | - | Japan, Palau. | 11w49a (1.1.0) |
| Korean | - | North & South Korea, China. | 11w49a (1.1.0) |
| Lithuanian | - | Lithuania | 11w49a (1.1.0) |
| Maltese | - | Malta | 11w49a (1.1.0) |
| Norwegian | Bokmål, Nynorsk. | Norway | 11w49a (1.1.0) |
| Polish | - | Poland | 11w49a (1.1.0) |
| Portuguese | Brazilian, Portuguese. | Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, .... | 11w49a (1.1.0) |
| Russian | - | Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, .... | 11w49a (1.1.0) |
| Slovenian | - | Slovenia, Italy, Austria, Hungary. | 11w49a (1.1.0) |
| Spanish | Argentinian, Spanish, Latino-American. | Spain, Argentina, Mexico, Uruguay, Costa Rica, Chile, .... | 11w49a (1.1.0) |
| Swedish | - | Sweden, Finland. | 11w49a (1.1.0) |
| Turkish | - | Turkey, Cyprus. | 11w49a (1.1.0) |
| Welsh | - | Wales, England, Argentina. | 11w49a (1.1.0) |
Upcoming languages
This is a list of all the upcoming languages that are listed on the official Minecraft translation project page :
- Afrikaans
- Arabic
- Basque
- Catalan
- English (Australian)
- Georgian
- Greek
- Klingon
- Latvian
- Malay
- Pirate language
- Quenya
- Romanian
- Serbian
- Slovak
- Spanish (Mexican, Uruguayan & Venezuelan)
- Thai
- Ukrainian
- Vietnamese
Trivia
- Minecraft will soon be available in Klingon (from Star Trek) and in Quenya (from Lord of the Rings).
Bugs
- Currently there is a bug with the Hebrew translation that makes all the letters appear in the reverse order, probably due to Hebrew being a right-to-left language.
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