[A12n-Collab] Personal spell-check dictionaries for African lang's?

["Don Osborn" <dzo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rui Correia forwarded the appended items re someone's development of a
personal spellcheck dictionary for the Tetum language of East Timor. It got
me to wondering how many similar individual efforts there may be for African
languages, but that have not been publicized. It would be quite useful to
know about such work and whether it could be put into the public domain. 

TIA for any thoughts, pointers, or contacts.

Don Osborn
Bisharat.net



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From: Alex Tilman <alextilman@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: 18 Mar 2008 13:57
Subject: Tetum spell checker for MS Word
To: east-timor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


Here is a Tetum spell checker for MS Word which I built and used on my PC
 (it's a Mac). It's no rocket science or computer hackery. It's just a
simple
 wordlist saved as a text (.txt) file. I have been using this dictionary on
 my computer for a number of years and I have added new words to it in the
 process. At the moment there are over 7300 entries in this list. The
 dictionary has been very helpful for me when I write in Tetum. It
 particularly enables me to write Tetum with consistency (spelling).

 For this file and its instructions, please go to
 http://baneebe.blogspot.com/2008/03/tetum-spell-checker-for-ms-word.html or
 http://baneebe.blogspot.com/

 Cheers.


 Alex Tilman
 Dili, Timor-Leste



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Dear Friends,

I have put up a dictionary of Tetum-Portuguese published in 1907 on the
www. The documents are in PDF and are divided into groups of 2 to 8 pages
with an average size of about 500KB. To view it please follow the links
above.

Alex.

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Caros amigos,

O dicionario teto-português produzido pelo Raphael das Dores e publicado em
1907 já se pode acessar no www. O documento de formato PDF está divido em
grupos de 2 a 8 páginas e com tamanho médio de 500KB. Para ver o documento,
siga o link em cima.

Alex.

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Maluk sira,

Disionário tetum-portugés Raphael das Dores nian, ne'ebé nia publika iha
tinan 1907, bele haree ona iha www. Dokumentu ne'e iha formatu PDF nian.
Ha'u fahe tiha dokumentu ne'e iha grupu entre tahan 2 to'o tahan 8. Grupu
sira ne'e iha medida média 500KB. Atu haree dokumentu ne'e bele tuir link
iha leten ne'e.

Alex.




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