I have just heard from a friend that you are removing a lot of languages, because testing all the lang files has become too difficult. It is a shame to let all that translation work go to waste and to deny the use of the software to speakers of smaller languages.
Rather than removing all the languages, there are other viable solutions that you should consider:
1. You could write a text2po/po2text tool to allow translators to work with Gettext editors (e.g. Virtaal or PoEdit). These tools will make sure that there are no syntax errors in the lang files. This is the solution that VDrift used before they implemented Gettext support: http://vdrift.net/Forum/showthread.php?tid=1377&pid=14276#pid14276
2. You could host the lang files on a translation platform that supports lang files, e.g. on Transifex. This is the road that Megaglest has taken: https://www.transifex.com/megaglest/
3. You could implement Gettext support directly into the code. This is the solution with most coding effort, but also with the greatest benefit. If you have any translatable strings in XML files, you might find Intltool useful too: https://launchpad.net/intltool
Please let me know if there is anything that I can do to help.
Adding the removed languages again
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