Translate Obsidian

Help translate Obsidian into your language.

Request a language

If the language you want to translate doesn't exist as a JSON file yet, submit an issue so that we can create a template for you to get started.

Staying up-to-date

Merge conflicts are nasty. They happen when you're translating an outdated version of the template, part of which might have been translated by someone else. To prevent this, try to fork our respository right before you translate.

If you want to do multiple translation pull requests, before doing work each time, use the "Compare" UI on your own fork to pull in all the newest changes from obsidianmd:master first by creating a pull request on your own repository and merge it in yourself, so that your own copy is up-to-update.

Submit changes

To translate, fork this repo and edit the JSON file of your language. After that, submit a pull request.

Note that you don't have to clone your fork to make the edits; you can do everything on GitHub's web UI. Simply open a file in your own forked repo and click on the pencil icon to start editing.

Translating

The translation JSON file consists of key value pairs. The key should give you a good idea of where the text is in the app.

To translate, simply edit the value. For example, let's say you see

"plugin": "Plugin"

Simply change it to:

"plugin": "pLU9IN"

where "pLU9IN" is the phrase "plugin" in the target language. I'm using leetspeak as an example here.

If you encounter something like

"label-welcome": "Welcome, {{name}}!"

leave the {{name}} part alone and do not translate it. "name" is not part of the text and will be replaced by the appropriate value when the app runs.

Existing languages

Here is a table of language code to language name, in alphabetical order. These languages have their template files ready, but are not necessarily ready to be used in the app.

Language code	Language name	Native name	Status
`en` (default)	English	English	✅
`af`	Afrikaans	Afrikaans	🚧
`sq`	Albanian	Shqip	✅
`ar`	Arabic	العربية	🚧
`eu`	Basque	Euskara	🚧
`be`	Belarusian	беларуская мова	🚧
`bg`	Bulgarian	български език	🚧
`bn`	Bengali	বাংলা	🚧
`ca`	Catalan	català	🚧
`cs`	Czech	čeština	✅
`da`	Danish	Dansk	✅
`de`	German	Deutsch	✅
`el`	Greek	Ελληνικά	🚧
`es`	Spanish	Español	✅
`fa`	Persian	فارسی	✅
`fr`	French	français	✅
`hi`	Hindi	हिन्दी	🚧
`hu`	Hungarian	Magyar nyelv	🚧
`id`	Indonesian	Bahasa Indonesia	✅
`it`	Italian	Italiano	✅
`ja`	Japanese	日本語	✅
`ko`	Korean	한국어	✅
`ml`	Malayalam	മലയാളം	🚧
`ms`	Malay	Bahasa Melayu	🚧
`nl`	Dutch	Nederlands	✅
`no`	Norwegian	Norsk	✅
`oc`	Occitan	Occitan	🚧
`pl`	Polish	język polski	✅
`pt`	Portuguese	Português	✅
`pt-BR`	Brazilian Portuguese	Portugues do Brasil	✅
`ro`	Romanian	Română	✅
`ru`	Russian	Русский	✅
`sr`	Serbian	српски језик	🚧
`se`	Swedish	Svenska	🚧
`sk`	Slovak	Slovenčina	🚧
`ta`	Tamil	தமிழ்	🚧
`th`	Thai	ไทย	✅
`tr`	Turkish	Türkçe	🚧
`uk`	Ukrainian	Українська	🚧
`ur`	Urdu	اردو	🚧
`zh` (see note below)	Chinese (Simplified)	简体中文	✅
`zh-TW`	Chinese (Traditional)	繁體中文	✅