Among Us' success continues to grow, and one of the measures of success is just how many official translations something has — including minority languages and languages that aren't even spoken any more, like Harry Potter's Latin, Ancient Greek, and Scots translations.
According to its Steam page, Among Us supports 12 languages so far, including Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, and Russian, but now they can add "Gaelige" to the list — the language of Ireland.
The localisation team was led by Úna-Minh Kavanagh, a gamer and streamer, working with Brian C. Mac Giolla Mhuire (who spearheaded the translation of PlayerUnknown's Battleground into Irish), Cormac Cinnsealach, and Mike Drinkwater.
Kavanagh said in an interview with The Irish Mirror that the initiative was taken by Callum Underwood, the consulting firm that is supporting Innersloth, who contacted Kavanagh after he saw his tweet requesting the language be added to the game at the end of 2020.
“Irish is a language with a large and growing minority, but it’s ignored in current affairs, especially in the case of technology and modern media.
The translation of Among Us is the first significant translation ever made in Irish for a very popular game. It is a cultural victory for the Irish community.”
- Cormac Cinnsealach
But we know what your main question is — what is "sus" in Irish? "Bain triail as an gcluiche agus cífidh tú," says Kavanagh — you'll have to play to find out.
An bhfuil tú sásta a bheith ag imirt Among Us sa Ghaeilge faoi dheireadh? Cuir in iúl dúinn sna tráchtanna. Chomh maith leis sin, tá brón orm faoin aistriúchán seo. Níl Gaeilge agam i ndáiríre, mar sin bhí orm Google Translate a úsáid. Logh dom.
[source irishmirror.ie, via twitter.com]
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Finally some representation for the Irish!
Now Irish school kids can say they're studying while playing Among Us and not be lying!
Very very cool to see. Don’t understand much outside of craic, sláinte and uh, Tiocfaidh ár lá. It’s a big part of my heritage though, being from that side of Glasgow where bald guys get that Celtic font tattooed on their head and play The Wolfe Tones’ greatest hits on repeat.
@Agriculture Cue downvotes because you know why Gaeilge was ‘replaced’? The English stamped it out. Nothing wrong with keeping culture alive.
Yeah "replaced" is a very generous word choice there like maybe go open an irish history book .
An-mhaith.
Well done to all involved. Unfortunately i remember very little of the Gaeilge i studied in school xD but definetly appreciate the effort put into this. Things like this help preserve culture. Normalish it's use where possible so it doesn't just exist inside a class room and designated areas but in mainstream media too.
This is class, props to them. VVVVVV is also getting one IIRC, added in the most recent Steam beta.
Always been deeply ashamed being from the North of Ireland and can't speak a word of Irish. It's a pity.
Very cool. So much translation work these days is done by automated systems. It's nice to see some humans still in the industry.
That's cool. I guess the game has made enough money that they can do passion project updates. I can't imagine translating into Gaelic could possibly bring in enough money to cover the labor cost, even if it was handled by a 3rd party.
I mean... that's neat... but nobody speaks Irish. Even the Irish barely speak any Irish; there's only 170,000 that speak it as a first language. Hell, the made-up language of Esperanto has approximately 100,000 speakers...
Not saying any of this to offend the Irish, but it seems like maybe the time spent localizing it into Irish would have been better spent on a language that more people speak.
...Wait, Minecraft DOESN'T have an Irish translation? With all the languages it's in, I could of sworn it had one. Ah well, cheers to you, people of the Green Isle.
Now we just need a Scottish translation for @PJOReilly. (My mistake; I mean’t @scully1888)
@Zacattack99 welsh too?
@Zacattack99
It's chewsday innit?
How do you create Among Us slang like "sus" in Irish?
Isn't Irish just English with an incomprehensible accent?
@Zacattack99 I'm Irish!
@GEKGanon the team who localised the game weren't on the development team, and it was something they chose to do. Just because something matters to a relatively small number of people doesn't mean it isn't important!
@PJOReilly, my bad, I mean’t to say @scully1888.
@Mountain_Man No.
@Splodge Then I guess Hollywood has lied to me.
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