Title: Amharic
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Amharic

 *  [briankain](https://wordpress.org/support/users/briankain/)
 * (@briankain)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/amharic/)
 * I want to add support to Amharic to posts and pages, but there is no .mo file
   created for that language yet. I have tried to add Amharic to Polylang but it
   doesn’t show up on the language switcher.
 * What’s the proper way of doing so? I don’t need to have the entire WordPress 
   translated to Amharic, I am just looking to have the posts/pages in both English
   and Amharic.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/polylang/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/polylang/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Chouby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chouby/)
 * (@chouby)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/amharic/#post-3574987)
 * you have to create the language in Polylang with ‘am’ for both language code 
   and locale. As soon as you will publish some content in that language, it will
   show up in the language switcher. if you want to use a flags, then create a directory
   wp-content/polylang and put the flag am.png or am.jpg in in that directory. the
   flag won’t show up on admin.
 * After that, you will probably need to translate at least part of your theme. 
   If it is internationalized, you should have a .pot file somewhere in your theme
   directory. Copy this file to am.po and translate the strings using poedit. If
   your theme has no .pot file, please refer to [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-polylang-how-to-internationalize-a-theme](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-polylang-how-to-internationalize-a-theme)
 * As far as I know, WordPress is not available in Amharic yet, but you may need
   to translate some parts of WordPress (for example months if your site diplay 
   monthly archives). In that case you will need to get the WordPress .pot files
   from [http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress-i18n/pot/tags/3.5.1/](http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress-i18n/pot/tags/3.5.1/).
   If you don’t need to translate your admin, all the strings you will have to translate
   should be found in wordpress.pot that you will have to copy to wp-content/languages
   and rename to am.po

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/amharic/#post-3574987)
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