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Category: African Languages

Advancing on the encoding of Loma
African Languages, African Studies

Advancing on the encoding of Loma

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

Building tools with Bété, Mende, and Kpelle users
African Languages, African Studies

Building tools with Bété, Mende, and Kpelle users

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

Turning the page on a 19th century Mende prayer
African Languages, African Studies

Turning the page on a 19th century Mende prayer

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

Progress in the transcription of a Mende primary source
African Languages, African Studies

Progress in the transcription of a Mende primary source

In a previous post, “Minding Mende”, I introduced the notebooks of Bokari Kanneh that had been digitized, and were awaiting … Continue reading Progress in the transcription of a Mende primary source

Lifting up Black voices
African Languages, African Studies

Lifting up Black voices

As I write this, it is the day before George Floyd’s funeral in Houston. It is hard to understate the … Continue reading Lifting up Black voices

The role of digital tools in relation to understanding Meroitic
African Languages, African Studies

The role of digital tools in relation to understanding Meroitic

Progress toward understanding the Meroitic script has been well underway since the foundational work of Francis Llewellyn Griffith, published in … Continue reading The role of digital tools in relation to understanding Meroitic

Learning about West African Ajami
African Languages, African Studies

Learning about West African Ajami

The study of Ajami texts, those using the Arabic script and various modifications and extensions of it to represent languages … Continue reading Learning about West African Ajami

Keeping up with Coptic
African Languages, African Studies

Keeping up with Coptic

The digital needs for the Coptic script are becoming better served in recent years, with the introduction of a standard … Continue reading Keeping up with Coptic

Cataloging Ethiopian Materials
African Languages, African Studies

Cataloging Ethiopian Materials

The prospects for cataloging materials in Ge’ez, Amharic, Tigre, and Tigrinya have greatly improved since the introduction of a system … Continue reading Cataloging Ethiopian Materials

Gearing up for Garay
African Languages, African Studies

Gearing up for Garay

In 1961, El Hadji Assane Faye was inspired by listening to a radio speech by the president of newly independent … Continue reading Gearing up for Garay

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