Change Kiswahili to Swahili in Language settings

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Hello, the official language of Tanzania, and east africa is Swahili, not Kiswahili. Kiswahili is the Swahili version of the language Swahili.

Here is an example of Language name transalation from English to Swahili.

Language In English - - - Language in Swahili

French - - - Kifaransa

English - - - Kiingereza

German - - - Kijerumani

Swahili - - - Kiswahili

So the language itself is called Swahili, and it is the official language name. Which is also acceptable and recognized by people using the language as well, so you needn’t worry it being that way.

Changing it to Swahili will make it easier for people both in East Africa and Global users of manager.io find it and access it.

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I don’t understand this.

Swahili is English name for the language and Kiswahili is native name.

Manager shows languages in native name. You claim that Swahili in Swahili language is Kiswahili.

Even Wikipedia shows Kiswahili in language picker. Not Swahili.

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Hello @lubos as long as what you want to display is the “native name” then Kiswahili is correct.

Swahili is the English name of the Language. Kiswahili is the Swahili name of the language.

Note: Wikipedia should not confuse you, I am Tanzanian (Swahili is my mother tongue language).

You see Kiswahili in Wikipedia when browsing content in Swahili, and you see Swahili when browsing content in English.

Most importantly look at the URL, which displays the language code as sw (swahili) not ks, or kw.

For your reference → https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639_language_codes

The reason i pointed it out is when someone is using English version of manager, they are most likely to search for Swahili and not Kiswahili. I had this problem when i first used manager.io before getting used to the system, so i assumed the language is not there. it wasnt until later on then i realized its written as Kiswahili.

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