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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 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 :

Version Added Removed Total Notes
11w49a 36 - 36
12w01a 18 4 50

Available languages

As of weekly snapshot 12w01a, there are 50 languages, which are, in alphabetical order :

# Name Language Official language in Added in
1 Afrikaans Afrikaans South Africa 12w01a (1.1.0)
2 الالعةالعربية Arabic Near and Middle East 12w01a (1.1.0)
3 Английски Bulgarian Bulgaria 12w01a (1.1.0)
4 Català Catalan Andorra 12w01a (1.1.0)
5 Čeština Czech Czech Republic 11w49a (1.1.0)
6 Cymraeg Welsh Wales 11w49a (1.1.0)
7 Dansk Danish Denmark, Faroe Islands. 11w49a (1.1.0)
8 Deutsch German Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Belgium. 11w49a (1.1.0)
9 Αγγλικά Greek Greece, Cyprus. 12w01a (1.1.0)
10 English (UK) British English Great Britain 11w49a (1.1.0)
11 English (Ca) Canadian English Canada 11w49a (1.1.0)
12 Pirate Speak Pirate English None (Web language) 12w01a (1.1.0)
13 English (US) American English USA 11w49a (1.1.0)
14 Español (Ar) Argentinian Spanish Argentina 11w49a (1.1.0)
15 Español (Es) Spanish Spain 11w49a (1.1.0)
16 Español (Ve) Venezuelan Spanish Venezuela 12w01a (1.1.0)
17 Eesti Estonian Estonia 11w49a (1.1.0)
18 Ingelera Basque France and Spain (Basque Country) 12w01a (1.1.0)
19 Suomi Finnish Finland 11w49a (1.1.0)
20 Français (Ca) Canadian French Canada (Québec) 11w49a (1.1.0)
21 Français (Fr) French France, Belgium, Monaco, Switzerland, .... 11w49a (1.1.0)
22 עברית Hebrew Israel 11w49a (1.1.0)
23 Hrvatski Croatian Croatia 11w49a (1.1.0)
24 български Bulgarian Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina 11w49a (1.1.0)
25 Enska Icelandic Iceland 11w49a (1.1.0)
26 Italiano Italian Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City State. 11w49a (1.1.0)
27 日本語 Japanese Japan 11w49a (1.1.0)
28 ქართული Georgian Georgia 12w01a (1.1.0)
29 한국어 Korean North & South Korea 11w49a (1.1.0)
30 Latviešu Lettonian Latvia 12w01a (1.1.0)
31 Lietuvių Lithuanian Lithuania 11w49a (1.1.0)
32 Bahala Malaysia Malay Malaysia 12w01a (1.1.0)
33 Norsk Bokmål Norwegian Norway 11w49a (1.1.0)
34 Nederlands Dutch Netherlands, Belgium, Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten, Suriname. 11w49a (1.1.0)
35 Norsk Nynorsk Norwegian Norway 11w49a (1.1.0)
36 Polski Polish Poland 11w49a (1.1.0)
37 Português (Br) Brazilian Portuguese Brazil 11w49a (1.1.0)
38 Portuguese (Po) Portuguese Portugal, Angola, Mozambique, .... 11w49a (1.1.0)
39 Română Romanian Romania 12w01a (1.1.0)
40 Pусский Russian Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, .... 11w49a (1.1.0)
41 Slovenčina Slovak Slovakia 12w01a (1.1.0)
42 Slovenščina Slovenian Slovenia 11w49a (1.1.0)
43 Srpski Serbian Serbia, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. 12w01a (1.1.0)
44 Svenska Swedish Sweden, Finland. 11w49a (1.1.0)
45 ภาษาไทย Thai Thailand 12w01a (1.1.0)
46 tera' Klingon Fictive (Star Trek) 12w01a (1.1.0)
47 Türkçe Turkish Turkey, Cyprus. 11w49a (1.1.0)
48 Англiйська Ukrainian Ukraine, Transnistria. 12w01a (1.1.0)
49 简体中文 Chinese (Simplified) China, Singapore. 11w49a (1.1.0)
50 繁體中文 Chinese (Traditional) China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Macau. 12w01a (1.1.0)

Upcoming languages

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

  • English (Australian)
  • Hindi
  • Irish
  • Quenya
  • Spanish (Mexican & Uruguayan)
  • Vietnamese

Removed languages

Name Language Official language in Added in Removed in Reason
Deutsch (Ös) Austrian German Austria 11w49a (1.1.0) 12w01a (1.1.0) Unknown (probably had no difference with the standard German translation)
Español (La) Latino-American Spanish South America 11w49a (1.1.0) 12w01a (1.1.0) Replaced by Argentinian, Venezuelan and Uruguayan Spanish translations.
Magyar Hungarian Hungary 11w49a (1.1.0) 12w01a (1.1.0) Unknown
Malti Maltese Malta 11w49a (1.1.0) 12w01a (1.1.0) Unknown

Bugs & Inaccuracy

  • Currently there is a bug with the Arabic and Hebrew translations that makes all the letters appear in the reverse order, probably due to these languages being right-to-left languages.
  • It says "Англійська (Україна)", but it has to be "Українська (Україна)", because the first one means "English (Ukraine)". Same applies to Basque, Greek, Icelandic and Romanian.
  • 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).
  • Klingon is in a similar situation, but since it's a language from off-world, it uses "tera'" which means "Terran," i.e. Earthling.

Trivia

  • Minecraft is available in Klingon (Klingon language from Star Trek) and will soon be available in Quenya (Elvish language from Lord of the Rings).
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