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There are over 6,000 languages in the world, but unless the language is associated with a G20 economic superpower, commercial vendors tend to ignore it. The OpenOffice community has a long-standing tradition of supporting numerous languages, including ones used by smaller populations, minority languages , and endangered languages, etc. For example, South Africa has 10 official languages other than English. OpenOffice has been translated to all of them. .  By supporting these languages that would not otherwise be supported, we help reduce “digital exclusion” and promote development, local education and administration. It is not easy to keep the translation up-to-date for all languages, but thanks to with enough volunteers we can reach this goal.

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