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African Languages in a Digital Age: Challenges and opportunities for indigenous language computing

Guy — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 07:06:04 +0000

African Languages in a Digital Age: Challenges and opportunities for indigenous language computing, Osborn, D. , Cape Town, South Africa, (2010)

ANLoc | The African Network for Localization

Guy — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:10:26 +0000

URL:

https://www.africanlocalisation.net

Description:

ICT is necessarily adapted to human languages in order to enable its use by non-specialists. For historic and economic reasons, however, certain languages dominate in this role, regardless of where ICT is used. So, when technology is used where the language and culture are different, it will exert an unintentional influence on the latter that could be negative. Localisation – the adaptation of ICT to the language and culture where it is used – allows that cultural pressure to be reduced, eliminated or even reversed.

By addressing the issue of localisation this network and its sub-projects aim to address these dimensions to indeed turn ICTs into a positive force for all of the above dimensions.

Google Interface in African Languages

Gilles-Maurice — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 21:54:27 +0000

URL:

https://www.google.com/language_tools

Description:

Google currently offers its interface in the following African languages:

Language	Internet address
Afrikaans	https://www.google.com/intl/af/
Amharic	https://www.google.com/intl/am/
Lingála	https://www.google.com/intl/ln/
Sesotho	https://www.google.com/intl/st/
Shona	https://www.google.com/intl/sn/
Somali	https://www.google.com/intl/so/
Swahili	https://www.google.com/intl/sw/
Tigrinya	https://www.google.com/intl/ti/
Twi	https://www.google.com/intl/tw/
Xhosa	https://www.google.com/intl/xh/
Yoruba	https://www.google.com/intl/yo/
Zulu	https://www.google.com/intl/zu/

translate.org.za

Guy — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 15:00:29 +0000

URL:

https://translate.org.za/

Description:

Translate.org.za is a project involved in localizing open source software in all of the 11 official South African languages.

PanAfrican Localisation Project (PAL)

Guy — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 14:57:39 +0000

URL:

https://www.panafril10n.org/

Description:

The PanAfrican Localisation Project is financed by IDRC and facilitated by Kabissa. It has 3 parts:

the background paper;
a workshop of experts in localization from around the continent to be held in Casablanca, Morocco on June 13-15, 2005; and
a web-based resource site that will provide information necessary to software localisers and African language content developers, lists for communication among localisers continentwide, and other interactive pages.

Jambo Kiswahili SpellChecker 9D

Guy — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 14:49:53 +0000

URL:

https://www.o.ne.tz/spellchecker/

Description:

Kiswahili spellchecker for use in the localized Kiswahili version of OpenOffice. The spellchecker has been developed as the result of the compilation of numerous Swahili word lists. Jambo Spellchecker contains a total of 70.000 Swahili words.