Hi Zanga, I'm delighted to see your effort represented here! I've created the project and added a link to it to our native-lang.html page of projects.
best Louis On 2010-05-19, at 06:02 , Zanga Chimombo 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. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@native-lang.openoffice.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@native-lang.openoffice.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@native-lang.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@native-lang.openoffice.org
