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

Hi all,


On 2010-05-19, at 06:13 , Roderick Young wrote:

> Zanga
> 
> A student in Waikato University, New Zealand (Aotearoa -Maaori indigenous language of Aotearoa (land of the long white cloud) New Zealand, Southern Hemisphere) back in early 2000's was from Malawi, Africa. We ate together and talked long into the night many occasions. Zanga can you please say a prayer, in your language for the oneness of humanity and also the unity we need here in New Zealand to translate open office into Maaori, thank you.

If we hold our faith in prayer for the oneness of humanity then we atheists are out of luck :-)

But, on a more serious note, I'm astonished that there is not yet a Maaori NLC. There ought to be. I learned, once, long ago, much of Maaori and a few other versions of Polynesian, as my grandmother was travelling from island to island in the vast Pacific and I was fascinated by the incredible migrations made by the ancient Polynesians.  What a beautiful, musical language. How grand and great it would be to have OOo in it!

Louis


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> Roddy Young
> Aotearoa (New Zealand)
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> On 19/05/2010, at 10:02 PM, Zanga Chimombo <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> 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.
>> 
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