New languages for Moodle 2.0 – Tigrinia and Amharic

Moodle 2.0 is being translated into two new languages – Tigrinia and Amharic, thanks to translators Armando Di Pietra and Berhane Woldegabriel, and translation coordinator Koen Roggemans. I’d never heard of either language before, so checked the Wikipedia articles Amharic language and Tigrinya language to discover that the languages are spoken in Ethiopia and Eritrea, [...]

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Eight years old today! Happy Birthday to Moodle!

Moodle, our open source course management system, is eight years old today! It’s also the birthday of Moodle’s founder and lead developer, Martin, who is quite a bit more than eight years old today. Happy Birthday to Moodle and Martin! Moodle usage continues to grow at an amazing rate, with over 52 thousand registered Moodle [...]

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New Moodle language pack – Dzongkha

Moodle has a new language pack, Dzongkha, thanks to Tenzin Dendup and translation coordinator Koen Roggemans. According to the Wikipedia article, Dzongkha language, Dzongkha is the official language of Bhutan, South Asia and is spoken by around 600 thousand people. There are currently a total of 86 Moodle language packs for Moodle 1.x (source: Moodle [...]

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