Language support

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Languages of the United Kingdom

  • Minority languages are Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, Lowland Scots, Cornish, Irish
  • The main immigrant languages are Punjabi, Pahari (Potwari), Gujarati, Hindi, Urdu, Bengali/Sylheti, Polish, Cantonese, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, Greek, Arabic, Portuguese, French, Turkish, Lithuanian.

Multilingual projects

  • Wikimedia Commons accepts multimedia content in all languages, and holds translations of the multimedia descriptions.

English

Welsh

  • Projects: ??
  • MediaWiki Localization: 97% [2]
  • Number of Wikipedia articles: Over 3 million (Statistics)

Scottish Gaelic

  • MediaWiki Localization: 14% [3]

Lowland Scots

  • MediaWiki Localization: 40% [4]

Irish

  • MediaWiki Localization: 64% [5]

Cornish

  • MediaWiki Localization: 24% [6]

Dead languages

Anglo-Saxon / Old English