A12n of ICT

A12n='Africanization' of ICT (L10n, enabling elements of i18n, HLT, ICT4D/E). Digital technology in African languages. Maintained by @donosborn

[African Language Digital Activism @DigiAfricanLang]

To write articles and translate the main interface in #Fon, we have developed a keyboard during the hackathon. This keyborad is now extended to support many others african languages. This is @aharoni work!
Read more about it here: https://t.co/wddIeLbCWU
@translatewiki

[A12n of ICT @A12n]

@JamraPatel @enablelanguages Thx. An interesting start. Noting that it:
* Didn't convert
** eng "ŋ" (to "𞤽")
** "ɠ" (to "𞤺𞥈" or "𞤿"?)
* Had trouble displaying "Ɓ"
* Would be helpful to have
** keypad for above & other "hooked" Latin letters
** ability to convert Adlam -> Latin (-> Arabic would be harder)

[A12n of ICT @A12n]

.@Google's virtual #Gboard keyboard indicates support for several dozen African languages. These include:

Acholi; Afrikaans; Akan; Amharic; Arabic (including versions for Libya, Morocco, Tunisia); Bambara (Latin & N'ko); Chiga; Chokwe; Dagbani; Ebira; Ewe; 1/3

[Google in Africa @googleafrica]

From Swahili to Rundi, and Hausa to Kinyarwanda, #Gboard makes it easy to type in dozens of African languages on #AfricaDay...and every day! #AfricanLanguagesDay https://t.co/AwagSXWIxH

[Pru Nyamishana @nyapru1]

We need to populate the internet with African languages. But are we giving the African child the tools to create content in African languages. - Prof. Kimani Njogu #ContentForAfrika

[A12n of ICT @A12n]

@PeaceInHislove @sabstopy @NkosinathiBMab1 @nenezi @SayEntrepreneur From afar, it seems that each African language added makes it easier to add another. Not just Nguni languages in this case - since Zulu is in that group - but others as well. Localizers, content developers, providers, everyone learns from the process. Think momentum?

[A12n of ICT @A12n]

@enablelanguages @JamraPatel Is there a good transliteration program / app between the Latin and Adlam transcriptions? The correspondence of characters should be easy to manage (1:1, or in the case of doubled letters in Latin <-> notation on the letter in Adlam, a kind of 2:2).

[r12n | @[email protected] @r12ntech]

Digital Language Survival Kit: major new report from @DLDProject provides concrete, practical advice for helping #minority languages thrive https://t.co/KiibHyarGI #local #indigenous #regional #language

[A12n of ICT @A12n]

Northern Sotho; Nyanja; Nyoro; Oromo; Pidgin (Cameroon & Nigerian); Rundi; Sango; Seselwa Creole French; Sesotho; Shona; Somali; Swahili; Swati; Tamazight, Tifinagh; Tamazight; Tigrinya; Tiv; Tshivenda; Tsonga; Tswana; Turkana; Wolof; Xhosa; Yoruba; Zulu
#Gboard 3/3

[A12n of ICT @A12n]

Fang; Fantse; Fulani (Latin & Adlam); Ge'ez; Gogo; Guinea-Bissau Creole; Ha; Hausa (2 versions); Ibibio; Igbo; Iloko; Kanuri; Kikuyu; Kimbundu; Kinyarwanda; Kipsigis; Kituba; Kongo; Krio; Lango; Lingala; Luganda; Maasai; Malagasy; Mossi; Nandi; Ndonga;
#Gboard 2/3

[A12n of ICT @A12n]

Thread by @zenodotus re support for #Vai, #Bamum, #BassaVah. #L10n #A12n

[Charles L. Riley 𐵲𐵲𐵌𐵍𐵭𐵲، 𐵶𐵊 @zenodotus]

ꕘꔤ ꕺꗏ, 𖫞𖫫𖫰𖫐𖫭𖫱𖫐, ꛖꚫꚨ���ꛃꚠꛤꚩ꛳...Nice to see support for #Vai in Twitter. Also waiting for #Bamum and #BassaVah support.

[A12n of ICT @A12n]

"#Fongbe (Benin) ASR system now available on our github repo"
African Languages in the Field Speech Fundamentals and Automation (ALFFA)
https://t.co/3bGrTC96PD

[A12n of ICT @A12n]

First automatic #Fongbe continuous #speechrecognition system: Development of acoustic models and language models https://t.co/3EiQsukfKB by @frejuslal @laurent_besacie et al,
2016 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems ( @FedCSIS ). Language of #Benin

[A12n of ICT @A12n]

"Fuzzy-based #algorithm for #Fongbe continuous speech segmentation,"
Fréjus A. A. Laleye, Eugène C. Ezin, & Cina Motamed
Pattern Analysis and Applications
August 2017, 20(3): 855–864
https://t.co/myGztbuxfE

[A12n of ICT @A12n]

Tech savvy innovators are in a race to save their African languages & boost literacy https://t.co/FMAP6tm7aP "In recent years, young Africans are experimenting with new digital platforms and technologies to save African languages and passing them on to the next generation."

[A12n of ICT @A12n]

Re-upping: Extended Latin in @LonelyPlanet's Africa Phrasebook (Yoruba ok; improve Hausa & Wolof for next ed, 2018?) https://t.co/Qk3NAEliWs

[Identita @projektidentita]

#diacritics connected to Latin letters used in African languages – an interesting approach presented by @JamraPatel at #typecon2017

[Keyman @keyman]

Keyman, the cross-platform multilingual keyboard solution is now completely free and open source!

https://t.co/FWJ6QsKSTB

#opensource

[A12n of ICT @A12n]

Extended Latin in @LonelyPlanet's Africa Phrasebook. Yoruba looks good. Wolof & esp. Hausa need work before 2018 ed. https://t.co/Qk3NAEliWs

[r12n | @[email protected] @r12ntech]

How the Appetite for #Emojis Complicates the Effort to Standardize the World’s Alphabets https://t.co/gbGXNTuLqs #unicode

[The Unicode Consortium @unicode]

#Unicode 10.0 Paperback Available https://t.co/NbY7sY716U #Unicode10 #POD