Hi Abraham,
welcome to Liferay community!
I'd like to thank you for your initiative. I am Daniel and I'm in charge of the technical part of Liferay translations. To add a new language, we need a minimum set of translations to start with.
So, you can start by downloading the latest CE sources (https://www.liferay.com/es/downloads/liferay-portal/available-releases) and locate the file Language.properties. This file contains all translatable strings in the portal.
After that, you can start to build the Amharic language file: Language_am.properties For this purpose you can either translate directly from Language.properties values, or browse through a running portal and see the messages in context.
A few things to take into account:
* Please don't include English values in Language_am.properties. Liferay will take care and use the English texts in case some key is not present in that file.
* Make sure that Language_am.properties is UTF-8 encoded.
Once you have a basic version (~100 - 200 translated keys), please send it to me (daniel.sanz @ liferay.com) and I'll talk to Product Management in order to incorporate that language to the product.
Thanks again!
