Translations of the Term “Free Software” **************************************** The most current list of translations is maintained at . Please e-mail any additional translations to . This document is part of GNU philosophy, the GNU Project’s exhaustive collection of articles and essays about free software and related matters. Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire document are permitted worldwide, without royalty, in any medium, provided this notice is preserved. --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- This is a list of recommended unambiguous translations of the term “free software”. We also provide translations of “gratis software” in a separate column to show how to make the contrast in various languages. If you know a correction or addition to the list, please email it to . Please stick to UTF-8 in your message. Thanks. The parenthesized phrases in Latin letters after some of the entries are transliterations (with vowels added where relevant). Please send any corrections or additions to those, too. Code Name Free Software Gratis Software ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- af Afrikaans vrye sagteware ar Arabic برمجيات حرة (barmagiyat ḥorrah) be Belarusian свабоднае праграмнае забесьпячэньне (svabodnae pragramnae zabes’pjachen’ne) bg Bulgarian свободен софтуер безплатен софтуер (svoboden softuer) (bezplaten softuer) bn Bengali স্বাধীন সফটওয়্যার (swadhin software) ca Catalan programari lliure programari gratuït cs Czech svobodný software bezplatný software cy Welsh meddalwedd rydd da Danish fri software / frit programmel de German freie Software Gratis-Software / Kostenlose Software el Greek ελεύθερο λογισμικό (eleuthero logismiko) eo Esperanto libera programaro / programo es Spanish software libre software gratuito et Estonian vaba tarkvara tasuta tarkvara fa Persian نرمافزارِ آزاد (Farsi) (nrmafzar azad) fi Finnish vapaa ohjelmisto fr French logiciel libre logiciel gratuit ga Irish bog earraí saoire he Hebrew תוכנה חופשית (tochna chofshit) hi Hindi मुक्त सॉफ्टवेयर मुफ़्त सॉफ्टवेयर (mukt software) (muft software) hr Croatian slobodan softver besplatan softver hu Hungarian szabad szoftver hy Armenian ազատ ծրագիր/ծրագրեր (azat tsragir/tsragrer) ia Interlingua libere programmage / libere programmario id Indonesian perangkat lunak bebas io Ido libera programaro is Icelandic frjáls hugbúnaður it Italian software libero software gratuito ja Japanese 自由ソフトウェア 無料ソフトウェア (jiyuu software) (muryou software) ko Korean 자유 소프트웨어 (ja-yu software) lt Lithuanian laisva programinė įranga nemokama programinė įranga mk Macedonian слободен софтвер бесплатен софтвер (sloboden softver) (besplaten softver) ml Malayalam സ്വതന്ത്രസോഫ്റ്റ്വെയര് (svatantrasophṯṯveyar) ms Malay perisian bebas nl Dutch vrije software gratis software no Norwegian fri programvare pl Polish wolne oprogramowanie darmowe oprogramowanie pt Portuguese software livre software gratuito ro Romanian programe libere programe gratuite ru Russian свободные программы бесплатные программы (svobodnie programmi) (besplatnie programmi) sc Sardinian software liberu si Sinhala නිදහස් මෘදුකාංග (nidahas mṛdukāṅga) sk Slovak slobodný softvér sl Slovenian prosto programje sq Albanian software i lirë software falas sr Serbian слободни софтвер бесплатни софтвер (slobodni softver) (besplatni softver) sv Swedish fri programvara / fri mjukvara sw Swahili Programu huru za Kompyuta ta Tamil கட்டற்ற மென்பொருள் (kaṭṭaṟṟa meṉpoñaḷ) th Thai ซอฟต์แวร์เสรี (sofotwerseri) tl Tagalog/ malayang software Filipino tr Turkish özgür yazılım uk Ukrainian вільне програмне забезпечення (vil’ne prohramne zabezpechennja) vi Vietnamese phần mềm tự do zh- Chinese 自由软件 免费软件 cn (Simplified) (zi-you ruan-jian) zh- Chinese 自由軟體 免費軟體 tw (Traditional) (zih-yo) zu Zulu Isoftware Ekhululekile