The pages, the app and the emails are now in eleven more languages. Here is why that matters.
From today, MulingStream is available in eleven more languages. Everything you read on our pages and in the app, the buttons, the settings, the help and the emails we send, can now be shown in:
Maltese (Malti) Irish (Gaeilge) Tigrinya (ትግርኛ) Icelandic (Íslenska) Azerbaijani (Azərbaycanca) Punjabi (ਪੰਜਾਬੀ) Gujarati (ગુજરાતી) Telugu (తెలుగు) Welsh (Cymraeg) Yoruba (Yorùbá) Igbo
The translation of what is spoken already works in 200+ languages. A guest can hear the sermon in Punjabi or read it in Yoruba whatever language the app around it is in. But a translation tool that asks a guest to find their way through buttons in a language they cannot read is only doing half its job.
So we translate the interface as well, for both sides of the room.
For the listener. A guest who scans the code at the door should be able to read every word on the screen, choose their language and follow along without asking anyone for help. When the room is set to one of their languages, the page offers itself in that language, in their own words, before they have touched anything. What the listener sees walks through it step by step: no app to install, no account, just the phone they already have.
For the speaker and the team. The pastor, the volunteer on the sound desk and the person setting up the room should be able to run MulingStream in the language they think in. Fewer misunderstandings, less to explain, and a calmer start on a Sunday morning.
Language is personal. Seeing your own language on a screen, written properly, with its own letters and its own words, says that you were expected. We think a tool built for translation should start there. Every language we add gets the full interface, the legal pages and the emails, not just a menu.
On our languages page you can look up any of the 200+ languages a guest can listen in, and for many of them we have written a page of its own: what makes the language special, what a church should know, and how MulingStream handles it. Five of the new interface languages already have one:
Azerbaijani has changed its alphabet three times in one century, from Arabic script to Latin, to Cyrillic and back to Latin. A grandmother and her grandson can speak the same language and still read different letters. Irish has everything a language is supposed to need: official status, schools, broadcasters. Still, it is not the language most Irish people live their lives in, and its church words need care. Icelandic builds its own words for new things out of old roots, and Icelanders can still read the medieval sagas without a translation. Punjabi is one spoken language written in two scripts: Gurmukhi, left to right, in India, and a Perso-Arabic script, right to left, across the border. Tigrinya is written in the Ge'ez script, and its page explains where we stand with it today and what is still missing.
Maltese, Gujarati, Telugu, Welsh, Yoruba and Igbo do not have their own page yet. They are in the full list, and their pages will follow.
The new languages are already in the language list at the bottom of every page and in your account settings. If your church or event uses a language that is not there yet, write to us: it helps us decide which language comes next.
See every language a guest can hear or read during a service or an event.