# Mozilla localization, Firefox, Common Voice...in Tangers Morroco

**URL:** <https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/mozilla-localization-firefox-common-voice-in-tangers-morroco/35415>\
**Category:** Mozillians\
**Created:** [January 26, 2019, 9:26am UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/mozilla-localization-firefox-common-voice-in-tangers-morroco/35415 "2019-01-26T09:26:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![belkacem77](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/discourse.mozilla.org/belkacem77/32/22019_2.png) [@belkacem77](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/belkacem77)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2019, 9:26am UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/mozilla-localization-firefox-common-voice-in-tangers-morroco/35415/1 "2019-01-26T09:26:33Z")

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Between last 9/01/2019 and 16/01/2019 I was in Tangers, Morroco to talk about language revitalization and Opensource tools/corpora.

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I gave a talk about Mozilla’s projects and especially about localization, Firefox, voice corpora (Common voice) … and their impact on the language especially minor/indiginous languages like Kabyle.

The meeting gathered language activists from Kabylia (Algeria), Rif (Morroco) and Basque (Spain and France).

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**Author:** ![slimane.amiri](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/discourse.mozilla.org/slimane.amiri/32/38261_2.png) [@slimane.amiri](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/slimane.amiri)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 5:48pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/mozilla-localization-firefox-common-voice-in-tangers-morroco/35415/2 "2019-01-31T17:48:30Z")

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It was a very beneficial communication, the three team shared their experience, a very rich exchange. Thanks Muhend Belqasem.

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**Author:** ![nukeador](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/discourse.mozilla.org/nukeador/32/20533_2.png) [@nukeador](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/nukeador)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 6:39pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/mozilla-localization-firefox-common-voice-in-tangers-morroco/35415/3 "2019-01-31T18:39:13Z")

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Glad to see this meeting happening.

Please, let us know any conclusions or notes from it 🙂

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**Author:** ![belkacem77](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/discourse.mozilla.org/belkacem77/32/22019_2.png) [@belkacem77](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/belkacem77)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 8:52pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/mozilla-localization-firefox-common-voice-in-tangers-morroco/35415/4 "2019-01-31T20:52:29Z")

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Yes more collaboration between teams. A meeting in Tizi ouzou (Kabylia) is planned this year in Tizi ouzou with activists from Basque to talk about localization corpora, content…etc. See how to add the Rifain language and other North African Berber Languages (Some of them have no iso 639-2 alpha 3 code. They have ISO 639-3 codes)…

I think common Voice should be opened for ISO 639-3 languages and not only 639-2 alpha 3 languages.

We also talked about an opensource morphosyntactic corpus project. Maybe with Mozilla.

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**Author:** ![mkohler](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/discourse.mozilla.org/mkohler/32/21244_2.png) [@mkohler](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/mkohler)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 10:54pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/mozilla-localization-firefox-common-voice-in-tangers-morroco/35415/5 "2019-01-31T22:54:07Z")

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> [@belkacem77](#):
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> I think common Voice should be opened for ISO 639-3 languages and not only 639-2 alpha 3 languages.

The sentence collector uses by default ISO 639-1/2. But we also have several languages enabled that are only part of ISO 639-3. If there is no blocker from the Common Voice side to use a ISO 639-3 language, I don’t think there is a problem adding it. @nukeador remind me, have we defined a process on how to request new languages?

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**Author:** ![nukeador](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/discourse.mozilla.org/nukeador/32/20533_2.png) [@nukeador](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/nukeador)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 10:55pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/mozilla-localization-firefox-common-voice-in-tangers-morroco/35415/6 "2019-01-31T22:55:38Z")

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> [@mkohler](#):
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> @nukeador remind me, have we defined a process on how to request new languages?

We follow pontoon languages, once it’s created there, voice-web and the sentence collection tool follow the code there.