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Languages

LightNet supports multiple languages, including right-to-left languages. A LightNet site can use one or more site languages for its user interface, while content is presented in its own content language.

A site language is the language of the site’s user interface, including button labels, menus, and other user interface elements.

A site administrator configures the site languages that a LightNet site supports. Only those site languages are available for users to select in the user interface. Users can switch from one site language to another through the Language Selection Menu. A ministry can ask its site administrator to add another site language.

A content language is the language in which a media item’s content is presented. For example, it is the language of the written text in a document or the spoken language of a video.

The content language can be different from the site language. A LightNet site could use English as its site language while offering a media item with Arabic as its content language.