Add Brahui (brh) as an officially supported Crowdin language

General Questions
1

Hello,

I would like to request that Brahui (brh) be added as an officially supported language in Crowdin’s global language list.

I understand that project owners can currently create custom languages. However, a project-specific custom language only makes Brahui available in that individual project. Official global support would allow project owners across Crowdin to select Brahui normally, without independently recreating the same language metadata in every project.

Language information

  • English name: Brahui
  • Native name: براہوئی
  • ISO 639-3: brh
  • BCP 47 language tag: brh
  • Primary script: Arabic (Arab)
  • Primary territory: Pakistan (PK)
  • Text direction: Right-to-left (RTL)

Plural information

Brahui is already implemented in established localization platforms with:

  • Plural forms: 2
  • Plural expression: n != 1
  • Categories: one, other

Standards and existing support

  • Unicode CLDR 49 includes Brahui locale data and identifies Arabic as the primary script.
  • GNU glibc has an upstream brh_PK locale.
  • Mozilla Pontoon supports Brahui as Arabic/RTL.
  • Weblate supports brh.
  • Canonical Launchpad / Ubuntu has an active Brahui language entry and an Ubuntu Brahui Translators team.

There are active Brahui translators available, including myself.

I would therefore like to request platform-wide Brahui support, rather than relying on project-by-project custom language definitions.

Please let me know if you need additional standards references, plural metadata, speaker/community information, or localization examples.

Thank you.

2

Hi @khangreat

Brahui isn’t on our list for the global language catalog right now. Yours is the first request we’ve received for this language, and the custom language feature is for cases like this one:

  1. Go to Settings and open the Languages tab
  2. In the Target Languages section, click Custom Languages, then Add
  3. Fill in the language name (Brahui), the language codes (brh), the text direction (right to left) and the plural forms
  4. Optionally, choose a parent language under “The dialect of” if you want the custom language treated as a dialect of an officially supported one
  5. Click Save, and Brahui becomes available as a target language in that project

If demand for Brahui grows and more users ask for it, we’ll be glad to revisit this

The full description of these fields is in Language Settings. Custom languages work with translation memory, glossaries and exports the same way officially supported languages do, so your translators won’t be limited in what they can do.