Countries

Few countries have only one official language and fewer still have only one language in wide use.  What I’ve done here is to create a list of countries in which a language is used for which we have an approved translation of the CORE-OM or YP-CORE or in which an approved translation was started (but may not still be being actively developed). For some countries, e.g. Ecuador and Chile, careful work has been done locally to explore whether the translation into the most used language for the country, created in another country, seems OK to use locally. For Brazil, Brasilian Portuguese, or Brasilian, was sufficient different from Portuguese from Portugal that a new adaptation was created.

Some countries, e.g. Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Uruguay, are here because I know CORE instruments are used locally even if detailed work any any possible need for a local adaptation may not have been done.

In a number of countries here I know that CORE instruments are used widely, for some that may be case but I may not know about it. Do contact me if you want something added to the page about your country (or a country where you have contacts).

As of mid-2024 I have restarted working to update this list and to link country pages to translation language pages. I have broken old links that were mostly directly to languages so you can see that if there is an active link here, it up to date as of 2024. Also as of mid-2024 I am calling a halt to my involvement in any new translations so I can focus on finishing up work on the psychometric exploration data that exists for many translations but has never been published. That doesn’t stop people doing new translations but they should now be done with and through the MAPI trust. Their translation protocol is excellent and very similar to mine and they are a non-profit and not trying to make money out of translations and measures. Do please still contact me if starting a new translation so that I know about it. Also, sign up for the CORE Email updates to learn when new translations, or PDFs for existing ones, emerge.

The countries

For each country I have put a link to the Wikipedia page for the country. Of course I’m not pretending that Wikipedia is perfect but I very rarely find errors in it and I generally find it helpful though sometimes reading with a wary eye is wise. I have also put links to the CIA worldbook for each country: I do this with much greater ambivalence than for Wikipedia but it does seem to be a widely respected source.

Page created 11/8/19, updated 7/12/24 but will always be work in progress. Aauthor CE; header image, Alps from Aime, France, CE; licence for text and image: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

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