Luganda web browser set
By Davis Weddi
It is all smiles at James Lunghabo’s office on Kagga House in Kampala where a Luganda language Internet browser has been made ready for use.
Lunghabo, the managing director of Linux Solutions, yesterday announced that the ‘Kayungirizi web browser’ is ready for distribution.
He said the software would be made available for download from the Internet.
According to Lunghabo, the software will be launched today during the Uganda I-Network monthly seminar in Kampala.
“It will be easier for Luganda speakers to surf the Internet. They will not have to ask for explanations since everything is explained in Luganda,” Lunghabo said.
Earlier this year, The New Vision reported that local players in information and communication technology were developing a virtual instrument to bridge the digital divide.
The ‘Kayungirizi web browser’ can be used in computers which have windows, Linux of Unix operating systems.
“With
the sprouting Internet cafés within the country where Luganda is common language, ‘Kayungirizi’ will be a vital tool. Since it is free, it will be easier for many to communicate on the Internet,” he said.
The brains behind this project have also initiated a Luganda word processor which will be used with the Luganda Internet browser.
In March, Lunghabo and Ivan Mugabi said there were arrangements to extend ‘Kayungirizi’ into other local languages like Lunyankole, Lunyoro, Luo and Ateso. Research is underway.
He said more than 50% of Ugandans will be potential users of their products.
Experts said the number of people getting access to the Internet in Uganda is increasing and the enthusiasm of the public had created demand for local content.
Published on: Wednesday, 15th September, 2004
Rise to the occasion and provide Luganda web pages ... ask not what the web can do for you, but what you can do for the web ...
Examples:
http://modersmal.skolutveckling.se/luganda/
www.sf.airnet.ne.jp/~ts/language/number/ganda.html
www.unhchr.ch/udhr/lang/lap1.htm ("broken" Luganda but content is good)
www.ratzlaf.com/luganda.htm or
www.adventistreview.org/2004-1502/ecd-Discover_Luganda1.pdf
http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/languages/luganda.html
http://ecd.hopetalk.org/luganda/
www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definition/Luganda-english/ (we should grow this one and the one by CBOLD and the one below)
www.ikuska.com/Africa/Lenguas/luganda/frases.htm
www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=LAP
www.freelang.com/dictionnaire/luganda.html ( .. "je ne sui pas")
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/uganda.html (on Uganda)
www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/cuvl/Ugeduc.html (on Uganda)
www.buganda.com (on Buganda)
www.absolutetranslations.com/english-into-luganda-translation-services.htm
www.translationship.com/languages/luganda.htm
http://www2.iro.umontreal.ca/translation/registry.cgi?team=lg
www.kizito.uklinux.net (work in progress)
www.languageresourceonline.com/languages/learn_luganda.html
http://silentnight.web.za/translate/luganda.htm
www.theglimpse.com/newsite/viewarticle2.asp?articleid=188 (travologue)
www.maps2anywhere.com/Languages/Luganda_language_course.htm (ask me privately about cheaper tapes)
www.uebersetzung.at/twister/lug.htm
www.jergym.hiedu.cz/~canovm/vyhledav/varianty/l3.html
(I like this one: www.jergym.hiedu.cz/~canovm/vyhledav/varianty/l.html)
www.worldlanguage.com/Languages/Luganda.htm (Luganda fonts, etc)
www.multilingualbooks.com/luganda.html (learn Luganda)
www.experienceafrica.co.uk/G7.htm
www.bibleuganda.fslife.co.uk/indexlu.htm
www.geocities.com/budohicomp/luganda/index_lu.htm
www.africaninengland.org/Lugandapage.html
(or www.worldhistory.com/wiki/L/Luganda.htm)
www.discoveronline.org/luganda/
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~malouf/nlp99/exercise05.pdf (interesting excercise!)
http://home.btclick.com/easc/lugandan.html
http://african.lss.wisc.edu/nalrc/prog-serv/nat-coord/lang-inv/luganda.html
www.greatcom.org/laws/luganda/
www.agricinfo.or.ug/documents/materials/luganda/Luganda_Good_Practices_Manual.pdf (useful to farmers)
www.agricinfo.or.ug/documents/materials/luganda/Luganda_soil_management_manual.pdf (ditto)
www.dip.go.ug/materials/luganda/Research_Institutions_Brochure_Luganda.pdf (ditto)
http://hollykirschke.blogspot.com/2003_10_01_hollykirschke_archive.html (travologue)
http://pbskids.org/africa/myworld/send_mengo.html
www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a9406121/luganda.htm (engero there is a CD with over 5000 Luganda proverbs in Walser's book. the Cd contains proverbs from other cultures in Africa)
www.ugandamusicartists.com/bakayimbira.html
www.umes.edu/english/newalp/pdf/douglasmpuga.pdf (official languange?)
www.iiz-dvv.de/englisch/Publikationen/Ewb_ausgaben/59_2003/eng_Okech.htm (Okech's take on multi-linguism in Uganda, etc)
www.behindthename.com/nmc/afr.html (this idea can be elaborated further, see Nsimbi's Ammannya Amaganda N'Ennono Zaago)
www.makerere.ac.ug/arts/depts/morelang.html (Luganda and other languages at MUK &)
http://schoolofeducation.net/academics/courses/dle/
www.legalservices.gov.uk/contract/lafqas/client-feedback-questionnaires/luganda.pdf
www.wougnet.org/ICTpolicy/ug/fosiug.html
etc, etc. So far, preachers have taken to the web in droves.
"Luganda : A simple word, yet a complex cultural web. Is there more? You bet." source: http://databank.oxydex.com/compendium_bibliographium/world_cultures_arts/Luganda.html
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