ADD YOUR LANGUAGE

WAR
IS
OVER!
IF YOU WANT IT
Happy Christmas from John & Yoko
Please keep sending in your languages, contributions & refinements (with text formatted exactly as above) to admin [at] IMAGINEPEACE [dot] com

Thanks for all your comments and suggestions.
The response has been amazing.
We have been working round the clock, conversing on email with hundreds of kind and helpful contributors who have been helping us to continually refine each translation to closer define John & Yoko’s original intention. Special thanks go to those from Oxford University, UK & the European Parliament in Brussels who have helped out enormously.
We now have translations in Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Belarus, Brazilian Portugese, Bulgarian, Burmese, Catalan, Cebuano-Bisaya, Chethlonian, Chinese-Simplified, Chinese-Traditional, Croatian, Cyrillic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Farsi, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hiligaynon-Ilonggo, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ilokano, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Kamakawi, Khmer, Klingon, Korean, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lojban, Luxembourgish, Maltese, Marathi, Norwegian, Pangasinense, Polish, Portugese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovakian, Slovenian, South Sotho (South Africa), Spanish, Swedish, Swiss German (Rheintaler), Tagalog, Thai, Tok Pisin, Turkish, Ukranian, Urdu, Vasc, Waray-Waray & Welsh.
We still need some help with some of the non-Latin scripted languages, as they often don’t copy and paste well, and the correct formatting & layout of these scripts can be very tricky to the uninitiated eye.
If there’s any designers that have script fonts that look closer to the original (Franklin Gothic) and can email us a similarly laid-out 3000×4000 pixel pdf, that would be fantastic!
We received the Burmese translation this way – as a preformatted pdf file – so thrilling as we are especially concerned about the plight of Aung San Suu Kyi and the struggle in Burma, and have been campaigning for her release here.
We would particularly like to find Dari (persian), Pashto, Kurdish, Aramaic & Turkmen.
We’re also looking out for Amharic, Assamese, Azerbaijani, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Cantonese/Yue, Fula/Fulfulde, Gan, Georgian, Gujarati, Hakka, Hausa, Igbo, Inuktitut, Javanese, Kannada, Madurese, Maithili, Malagasy, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Min, Nepali, Oriya, Oromo, Punjabi, Shona, Sindhi, Sinhalese, Sunda, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tibetan, Uzbek, Wu, Xiang, Yoruba & Zhuang and many others.
We were very happy to receive Klingon, Chethlonian, Kamakawi and Lojban and welcome more esoteric submissions.
Also great to have Handsigns & Braille, Morse, Semaphore & Flags.
We hope this project will continue to evolve and grow worldwide in the spirit in which it was first intended by John & Yoko in 1968.
Yoko said:
“This is what we wanted to do, and did, in a way at the time.
John would have been delighted.”
The main page to follow for progress is here.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/yokoonoofficial/sets/72157622834909233/
Please keep sending in your contributions & refinements to admin [at] IMAGINEPEACE [dot] com
Special thanks to the following essential contributors: Alexandra, Amelie, Anna, Anne, Antonia, Arabella, Ashwin, Ashwin, Aung Moe Win, Berm, Bermlee, Brainspore, Canoben, Cara, Carlo, Cefeida, Chris, Creede, Cristina, Deana, Denis, Dennis, Dori, Ed, Emily, Emur, Enkel, Fyodor, Gabriel, Ian, Ibrahim, Iman, Isaiah, Jaeyoon, James, Jason, Jennifer, John, Jordana, Jordi, Jorge, Kalinka, Khalil, Khalil, Kiryl, Lynne, Lucienne, Madzia, Maralalala, Mark, Marta, Menelaus, Mikaela, Moti Z, Muffin, Nevide, Nicolas, Pamela, Peppa, Peter, Quifengguoer, Ramey, Robert, Ruth, Sarune, Simon, Sonia, Steven, Susan, Svanhildur, Tetsuo, TetsuRo, Tiffany, Tina, Tumi, Tumid, Vadim, Victor, Vlasta,Yanit & Yonit.

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“Arjuyaliq naattuq” is the Inupiaq Eskimo translation for War is Over.
Hi!
Here is the CORRECT Bulgarian translation for “WAR IS OVER! IF YOU WANT IT. Happy Christmas from John & Yoko”.
We use Cyrillic alphabet, not Latin, so please use the text as follows:
ВОЙНАТА СВЪРШИ!
АКО ИСКАШ ТАКА
Честита Коледа от Джон и Йоко
Thank you!
Juliana
Hey Juliana, that’s right, put that Cyrillic translation not the “shliiokavitsa” type
ВОЙНАТА СВЪРПИ
АКО ТАКА ИСКАШ
Честита Коледа от Джон и Йоко
Anyway it’s about time the war ended, if only enough people wanted it.