[native-lang] Proposal for Native Language Confederation (NLC) Project - NY

My name is Zanga Chimombo. I am IT professional living and working in
Blantyre, Malawi. I would like to propose my native language ChiNyanja
also known as ChiChewa, Chewa or Nyanja (ISO 639-1: ny, ISO 639-2:
nya) to be considered as an NLC project of the Open Office suite of
software. ChiNyanja is spoken in Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia.

I have some experience of involvement in an open source software
project (http://bawo.sourceforge.net) and I am aware of prior work on
a ChiNyanja spell checker by Kevin Scannell and Soyapi Mumba
(myspell-ny version 0.01) released in January 2005. As a start I would
like to update this work in order to make a ChiNyanja spell checker
dictionary available as an Open Office 3.0 Extension Dictionary.

I would then be in a position to expand the dictionary as well as
create a thesaurus and maybe even grammar checker. I am hoping that by
this stage, significant interest can have been generated for the
project within Malawi and surrounding countries.

I look forward to your favourable consideration.

Kind regards, Zanga.