I want eliminate certain foreign languages to lighten the load on my linux mint 19.1. like Indian, Chinese, Japanese etc.
There are two directions to explore.
LO side
Optional data (dictionaries, hyphenation rules, check speller) is provided by so-called “language packs”. Remove them with your favorite package manager. Note this will not remove the various items in the languages menus, they’ll only become inoperative.
You can tell if a language pack is installed by going to Tools>Options, Language Settings>Languages. Default languages for … section has menus to select the default language. Within this menu, items with a check mark+ABC correspond to installed language packs.
OS side
Locale data is also provided by language packs. Remove them also with the package manager.
Unless you previously install them, I doubt you will gain a lot because default install loads the “international” minimal set (aka. en_US) and your own locale.
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