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If you feel up to making a small edit to the plugin file I can define a filter now and let you have it and also ensure that it gets into the next release of the plugin...

Well I will guarantee that the filter remains but this might not be the way we choose to handle it longer term. We are actually thinking of maybe giving it a little admin UI to make things easier. But this will work now.

The first file to edit is - by default - 

wp-content/sp-resources/forum-plugins/user-selection/template-tags/sp-user-selection-tags.php

Locate the block of code that looks like this (in the languages section):

foreach ($langs as $lang) {
    $lang = str_replace('sp-', '', trim($lang));
    $selected = (isset($_COOKIE['language']) && $lang == $_COOKIE['language']) ? ' selected="selected" ' : '';
    $out.= '<option'.$selected.' value="'.esc_attr($lang).'">'.esc_html($lang).'</option>';
}

and replace it with the following, Note there is one new line of code and one other has been modified:

foreach ($langs as $lang) {
    $lang = str_replace('sp-', '', trim($lang));
    $display = apply_filters('sph_LanguageDisplay', $lang);
    $selected = (isset($_COOKIE['language']) && $lang == $_COOKIE['language']) ? ' selected="selected" ' : '';
    $out.= '<option'.$selected.' value="'.esc_attr($lang).'">'.esc_html($display).'</option>';
}

Then finally you need to define a filter function in the spFunctions.php file of your Simple:Press theme. This will be in the /templates folder. This should look something like this:

add_filter('sph_LanguageDisplay', 'my_Lang_Names');
function my_Lang_Names($lang) {
    if($lang == 'it') {
        $lang = 'Italian';
    } elseif ($lang == 'fr') {
        $lang = 'French';
    } elseif ($lang == 'de') {
        $lang = 'German';
    return $lang;
}

Of course you will need to supply the language codes that you are actually using and the country names you prefer to use. Define as few or as many as you need but this gives you a coding template to work with.

I am afraid this will not remove the English entry. That will have to come later I am afraid.

LeoS said
Thanks! It works. 

I also changed in line 85 the 'Select Language' label to 'Kies taal / Bitte wählen'

Maybe the option to change the label is something to integrate into the admin UI thingy also?

Well no - those labels are themselves within the plugin's own translation file which is really where they belong.

I can see that the selecter plugin only has about 4 languages where people have added translations and approved them. German is one of them.

The profile tabs and menus are unique in that you can change those main labels in the Profiles Tabs and menus option of the forum admin. In-line form text will reside in the core SP po/mo file.