Locale Glossaries and Style Guides

While our Translation Style Guide has tips that are applicable to all languages, the locale-specific glossaries and style guides listed on this article provide more detailed guidelines for translators.

If you know more references we should add, please contact us in the Translations Forum. You can also take a look at existing WordPress.org resources on this Polyglots Handbook page.

The style guides can also be downloaded from this folder. You can access more glossaries from individual translation projects.

A running list of WordPress Editor blocks used in the WordPress Editor and translations for select languages can be found here.

A glossary of UI terms and their translations for select languages can be found here.

Our English glossary includes some definitions of our standard terms.

LocaleGlossaryStyle Guide
ArabicالعربيةarGlossaryStyle Guide
Chinese (Simplified)简体中文zh-cnGlossaryStyle Guide
Chinese (Traditional)繁體中文zh-twGlossaryStyle Guide
DutchNederlandsnlGlossaryStyle Guide
FinnishSuomifiGlossary 
FrenchFrançaisfrGlossaryStyle Guide
French (Canada)Français du Canadafr-caGlossaryStyle Guide
GermanDeutschdeGlossaryStyle Guide
Greek elGlossary 
Greek (Polytonic) el-poGlossary 
HebrewעִבְרִיתheGlossaryStyle Guide
HungarianMagyarhu_HUGlossary 
IndonesianBahasa IndonesiaidGlossaryStyle Guide
ItalianItalianoitGlossaryStyle Guide
Japanese日本語jaGlossaryStyle Guide
Korean한국어koGlossaryStyle Guide
PersianفارسیfaGlossary 
PolishPolskiplGlossaryStyle Guide
Portuguese (Brazil)Português do Brasilpt-brGlossaryStyle Guide
Portuguese (Portugal)PortuguêsptGlossary 
RomanianRomânăroGlossary 
RussianРусскийruGlossaryStyle Guide
Spanish (Spain)EspañolesGlossaryStyle Guide
SwedishSvenskasvGlossaryStyle Guide
TeluguతెలుగుteGlossaryStyle Guide
TurkishTürkçetrGlossaryStyle Guide
UrduاردوurGlossary Style Guide
VietnameseTiếng ViệtviGlossary

Additional Resources

For more links,  you can also check the Locale Community Links page.

German

Use the informal style (“du”).

Hebrew

WordPress.com translation differs from WordPress translation, specifically the term “post”.

Russian

Use the formal style (“вы”).