jonathon wrote: > Jonathan Kaye wrote: > >> suspect languages with tones, clicks and other "exotic" objects present > > I thought !Kung would be a better example. > Especially when it comes to creating a set of rules for > grammar checking. > >> Words in Nama and Khoe are encoded such that each "phoneme" consists of >> one > > Are you going to do the UI in Nama or Khoe? > >> Alternatively, since, say, the Icon Programming language can do this >> trivially having a built-in function "map" that does just that, it is >> possible to issue a system call from OO that could execute a tiny program >> (supplied by the user) and that takes cell1 as its input and inserts the >> result in cell2? > > I _think_ an extension could be written to do that. > > xan > > jonathon Hi Jonathon (with an "o"). I didn't pick the languages. Willi Haacke of the University of Namibia is running the project. I'm just helping out with the donkey work. A couple of books have already appeared (I can send you the references it you're interested) including a full-blown Khoekhoegowab dictionary. Now an Afrikaans version is in the works and the (early 90's) technology that we used to produce the dictionary and maintain the database need replacing. That's what I'm doing now. Up to now the output has been books in the printed media. The UI is really made for researchers entering data and not for the general public. I'm sure we could produce a friendlier interface in whatever language or languages would be useful. The next step (as I understand things from here) is a large comparative Khoisan dictionary which would be more of academic than general interest. My role is merely providing technical support to the Namibians running the project. Cheers, Jonathan (with an "a")
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