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Panoramio in Belarusian, Latvian, Galician and Asturian

November 22nd, 2007 by Eduardo Manchón

Thanks to these great guys, now Panoramio is translated to four more languages.

Latvian: Ainars Bruvelis, paldies!

Galician: Christian Álvarez Rodríguez, gracias!

Asturian: Andrés Menéndez Blanco and Héctor Xil, gracies!

Belarusian: Andrej Kuźniečyk Дзякуй!

The rest of the languages are updated continously with the contributions of many translators. However sometimes you will see some sentences in English mixed with other languages because Panoramio website is alive; we are adding new sentences or rewriting them all the time.

Belarusian has between 4-7 million native speakers and Latvian 1,5 million, they are the official languages for Belarus and Latvia respectively. The other two languages are located in Northern Spain, Galician is the mother tongue for 2,5 million people in Galicia and Asturian is spoken by around 100,000 people in Asturias.

Here you can see some of my favourite shots from Belarus, Latvia, Galicia and Asturias.


3 Responses to “Panoramio in Belarusian, Latvian, Galician and Asturian”  

  1. 1 muba

    I think that this demonstrates the global appeal of Panoramio. Good work all translators

  2. 2 diarnedo

    Hi.While catalan language is avaliable in the Panoramio pages, the names of the villages still apear in spanish (direct and very wrong translation…xD). In google maps and google earth the names are correctly written, but below the photos in panoramio they’re wrong. You can find many expamles, like ‘Juanetas’ instead of Joanetes, ‘Porqueras’ instead of Porqueres… what about changing it?

  3. 3 Eduardo Manchón

    Diarnedo, you are right. The names of the villages are extracted from a database in English that seems to include very bizarre names for Catalan places, strange translations to Spanish language that in fact have been never used. We are trying to find an updated database available. Hopefully this problem will be fixed soon.

    Eduardo

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