Will the laptop be localized or will it be in English?
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According to our survey, there would be a large possibilty that the OLPC would be localized. And the possible language which would be used in OLPC could be listed as follows, even through it is intensively debated.
| Country | Official | Other Language(s) | Region(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Argentina | Spanish | living languages: 25 | |
| Guarani | Corrientes, Misiones | ||
| Brazil | Portuguese | living languages: 188 | |
| China, People's Republic of |
Mandarin (aka Putonghua) |
living languages: 235 | |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong, Macau (de facto) | ||
| English | Hong Kong | ||
| Kazakh | Ili Kazakh | ||
| Korean | Changbai, Yanbian | ||
| Mongolian | Inner Mongolia | ||
| Portuguese | Macau | ||
| Tajik | Taxkorgan | ||
| Tibetan | Tibet | ||
| Uyghur | Xinjiang | ||
| Zhuang | Guangxi | ||
| Daur | - regional - | ||
| Kalmyk-Oirat | - regional - | ||
| Lu | - regional - | ||
| Peripheral Mongolian | - regional - | ||
| Central Tibetan | - regional - | ||
| Uyghur | - regional - | ||
| Xibe | - regional - | ||
| Northern Zhuang | - regional - | ||
| Egypt | (Egyptian) Arabic | living languages: 11 | |
| India | Hindi English |
living languages: 415 | |
| sheduled official | Assamese | Assam | |
| sheduled official | Bengali | Tripura, West Bengal | |
| sheduled official | Bodo | Assam | |
| sheduled official | Dogri | Jammu, Kashmir | |
| sheduled official | Gujarati | Dadra, Nagar Haveli, Daman, Diu, Gujarat | |
| sheduled official | Kannada | Karnataka | |
| sheduled official | Kashmiri | Jammu, Kashmir | |
| sheduled official | Konkani | Goa | |
| sheduled official | Maithili | Bihar | |
| sheduled official | Malayalam | Kerala, Pondicherry, Lakshadweep | |
| Meitei | Manipur | ||
| sheduled official | Marathi | Maharashtra | |
| sheduled official | Nepali | Sikkim | |
| sheduled official | Oriya | Orissa | |
| sheduled official | Punjabi | Punjab | |
| Sanskrit | classical learning language | ||
| sheduled official | Santali | Jharkhand | |
| sheduled official | Sindhi | Jammu, Kashmir | |
| sheduled official | Tamil | Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry | |
| sheduled official | Telugu | Andhra Pradesh, Pondicherry | |
| sheduled official | Urdu | Jammu, Kashmir | |
| French | Pondicherry Union Territory - only | ||
| Libya | Arabic (std) | living languages: 9 | |
| Nigeria | Hausa Igbo Yoruba English |
living languages: 510 | |
| widely used | Adamawa, Edo, Efik, Fulfulde, Idoma, (central) Kanuri | ||
| Rwanda | Kinyarwanda French English |
living languages: 3 Source: Ethnologue | |
| Thailand | Thai | living languages: 74 | |
| Uruguay | Spanish |