Practical examples and theoretical reflections on the do's and don'ts of using digital tools for your study and research in African and Asian Studies.
Coptic is the last stage of the Egyptian language and is still used at Coptic Christian churches. Coptic uses the … Continue reading Read and Write Coptic on Your Smartphone: Interview with Mina Makar on Coptic Bible, Dictionary, Keyboard, and Agpeya Apps
This time, I (So Miyagawa) decided to interview Arbaab (Hatim Eujayl), who is making Sawarda Nubian, an Old Nubian script … Continue reading Making a Unicode Font for the Nubian Language Revitalization Movement
By Franziska Naether (Leipzig/Stellenbosch) Franziska Naether (PD Dr. phil habil.) is an Egyptologist, museum curator, and digital humanist with a focus … Continue reading Digital Archiving & Curation – Report from a Session at a recent Digital Humanities Conference in Kyoto KUDH)
Based at MIT’s Aga Khan Documentation Center, Archnet (AKDC@MIT) is an open-access resource focused on architecture, conservation issues, environmental and … Continue reading Decolonize University-Based Databases
This is a post by our guest contributors, Ulrich Rebstock and Marvin Müller The application AABC (African Alphabets of the … Continue reading AABC – African Alphabets of the Bayreuth Cluster
This week’s guest contribution was organized by our Editor for Northeast African Studies, So Miyagawa, and was written by Lance … Continue reading An Introduction to Coptic Scriptorium
One of Guinea’s foremost scholars passed away in March of this year at the age of 89 from COVID-19. Djibril … Continue reading The epic world of Djibril Tamsir Niane (1932-2021)
As I noted in my first post for the Digital Orientalist in 2018, two 1943 Loma texts remain to be fully translated … Continue reading Advancing on the encoding of Loma
While proposals for Unicode inclusion of the Bété and Kpelle scripts are being developed, there has been some interest on … Continue reading Building tools with Bété, Mende, and Kpelle users
As I noted in an earlier post, there was one 19th century prayer that had been published in Mende in Latin script … Continue reading Turning the page on a 19th century Mende prayer
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