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[Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Hakim,

On 2021-04-29 12:24, Hakim Oubouali wrote:
> i would like to contribute translating Ubuntu if you please add a
> standard Moroccan Tamazight group
> so other people can join and help with the translation

What you have in mind is anything but trivial. This is a short checklist:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Translations/KnowledgeBase/StartingTeam

As far as I know, Standard Moroccan Tamazigh does not exist as a 
language in the Linux world, so you would need to start from scratch.

* Request for the creation of a zgh_MA locale in glibc

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=glibc;component=localedata

* Request for the addition of the language at Launchpad
  https://answers.launchpad.net/launchpad/+faq/23

* Request for the addition of the language at a lot of other places
  (please note that translation of Ubuntu is not just about Ubuntu —
  it's mostly about translating FOSS for all Linux distros.

As regards the team, it looks like somebody already created it:

https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-l10n-zgh

Some hints before you proceed:

Establishing a new language for translating FOSS is a huge undertaking. 
Would there be enough translators to translate tens of thousands of 
strings (at least) into Standard Moroccan Tamazigh and then maintain 
those translations when software is upgraded or replaced? And how many 
users would find it useful to have menus and windows displayed in 
Standard Moroccan Tamazigh?

I'm not suggesting it can't be done, but I'm trying to make sure that 
you understand the scope of the project.

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Cheers,

Gunnar Hjalmarsson
https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj