Our multilingual feature allows you to create translated articles in a couple clicks. It always branches off of a default language article. But what if you want to publish an article that's only available in a secondary language and not the default language?
There's no way to avoid publishing the default language but as a workaround you can create an article in the default language to point to your other secondary language articles.
Something like this might work:
This article isn't available in English. Check out the article in Spanish and German.