Do languages with few speakers localize into their native language? থ্রেড পোস্টার: Zolboo Batbold
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Do languages with few speakers localize into their native language? Like those languages with less than 10 million speakers. Do they localize things like videogames, movies, cartoons as a strategy to "protect" its language and culture from dominant langauges like English etc..
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A lot of smaller markets do subtitles.
There's also a budget localization approach of single-voice (or 1 male 1 female) voiceover, games with translated interfaces but subtitled sounds, etc.
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| Catalan and Frisian | Dec 1, 2021 |
There are several Catalan localization services out there. KDE also has a team to localize their software into the Frisian language. I'd imagine the same goes for other languages with small numbers of speakers.
[Edited at 2021-12-01 01:07 GMT]
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9.9 million speakers is just a few?!
But the answer is, of course, yes. Welsh has half a million and its own TV channel. But obviously English is dominant.
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Ice Scream wrote:
But the answer is, of course, yes. Welsh has half a million and its own TV channel. But obviously English is dominant.
I presume Scotland and Northern Ireland also have something similar?
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| Depends on the money they can spend | Dec 1, 2021 |
All Nordic languages do subtitles in movies and tv. We in Finland have the choice between Finnish and Swedish subtitles on tv, in movie theaters we have both. I have never watched Estonian tv or been in a movie theater, but I guess they have subtitles too, at least I hope so. In Russia though probably foreign language movies have only an additional voice over, at least that used to be the norm. Germans, French, Italiansa etc. dubb the films, so they don't have to learn to read ... See more All Nordic languages do subtitles in movies and tv. We in Finland have the choice between Finnish and Swedish subtitles on tv, in movie theaters we have both. I have never watched Estonian tv or been in a movie theater, but I guess they have subtitles too, at least I hope so. In Russia though probably foreign language movies have only an additional voice over, at least that used to be the norm. Germans, French, Italiansa etc. dubb the films, so they don't have to learn to read ▲ Collapse
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Novian Cahyadi wrote:
Ice Scream wrote:
But the answer is, of course, yes. Welsh has half a million and its own TV channel. But obviously English is dominant.
I presume Scotland and Northern Ireland also have something similar?
Tom will correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think Northern Ireland has any large Gaelic-speaking communities??
Yes, there is a Scots Gaelic channel.
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Single voiceovers were the Russian norm in the bootleg VHS or DVD days when translation was mostly handled by pirate studios
Heinrich Pesch wrote:
All Nordic languages do subtitles in movies and tv. We in Finland have the choice between Finnish and Swedish subtitles on tv, in movie theaters we have both. I have never watched Estonian tv or been in a movie theater, but I guess they have subtitles too, at least I hope so. In Russia though probably foreign language movies have only an additional voice over, at least that used to be the norm. Germans, French, Italiansa etc. dubb the films, so they don't have to learn to read
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