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. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@native-lang.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@native-lang.openoffice.org
