Re: Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo (yo, ha, ig)

[Dwayne Bailey <dwayne translate org za>]

On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 19:03 +0100, Andre Klapper wrote:
> Christian Rose píše v Po 12. 01. 2009 v 18:47 +0100:
> > Well, we have an Afrikaans coordinator... :-) Friedel, do you have any
> > input on this? Do you think perhaps www.translate.org.za could help
> > out with this? I know these are not south african languages (they are
> > west african languages), but perhaps you've got some ideas.
> 
> As written before: These are all Nigerian languages.
> And I really wonder how asking the Japanese coordinator might improve
> the Nepali translation to list a strange but similar example.
> Ah yeah, it's both in Asia, right.
> 
> Obviously not getting the joke in that posting,

The reason would be that I, and others from translate.org.za, meet many
African localisers and I am heading a group funded by the Canadian
government looking at localisation issues in Africa: keyboards, fonts,
locales, localisation tools, etc...

I'm sitting at a meeting where Nepali localisers are talking to Japanese
localisers, in fact a major group from Asia see Panl10n.net.

Or I could say, "Down Andre, down. Bad boy." ;)

I see Simos has been asking already.  I will also put this on the wire
to ask those in Nigeria that I know who might have more direct contact
with the people who where involved in the original work.

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