Somali Spell Checker Released

From: Daniel Yacob (dmulholl@cs.indiana.edu)
Date: Wed Sep 29 1999 - 10:09:44 EDT


Greetings All,

  For those with an interest in East African orthography it seems
to have taken a leap forward with the release of a Somali spell
checker. The spell checker works on Somali transcription conventions
and not Somali script (which is dead to the best of my knowledge):

  http://www.somitek.com/

  The Somalis have been both very active and very strict in their
use of Latin transcription on the Internet. For this ASCII
practice to have lead to a spell checker may be unprecedented.

  Similarly, an Oromo thesaurus has recently become available
using Qubee transcription (which did not originate from internet
practices):

  http://www.oromosoft.com/

  Localization fans take note!

/Daniel



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