Professor Arvi Hurskainen at University of Helsinki has conducted
a lot of research on language technology for Bantu languages
and especially Swahili. Here are some links related to that research:
- Helsinki Corpus of Swahili:
http://www.aakkl.helsinki.fi/cameel/corpus/intro.htm
- SALAMA -
There are also some resources being developed for Amharic (in
conjunction with Daniel Yacob) at New Mexico State University:
http://crl.nmsu.edu/say
Steve Helmreich
Computing Research Laboratory
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, NM 88003 USA
On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Don Osborn wrote:
Thanks to all who have responded in this thread. I will follow up offline.
Re the question of terminology, and minority languages in particular, here
are a few quick thoughts (with apologies for taking this off on a tangent):
1. I hadn't thought of minority being offensive, but I guess we need
though we wouldn't think to call it, or Spanish or English, etc. As Francis
puts it, situational minority languages. But that just shows how dependent
the term is on context.
To avoid taking credit for this, I took the term from Peter Trudgill's
paper, Ausbau sociolinguistics and the
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