Dear Tanko, Sannu!
Thank you for your letter and your kind
words.
For commercially available packages there
is the Konyin system specifically intended for Nigerian languages (see http://www.konyin.com/ ). Also a couple of others (such as
Unitype http://www.unitype.com) that
cover a lot of world languages and are probably not worth the expense if
your main work will be with Hausa and English.
You may be able to use a unicode font such
as Lucida Sans Unicode, Arial Unicode, or Gentium (the first two are with
many Windows systems and the third is available free for dwnload at http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=Gentium ).
These three fonts also have the IPA range. With these, you could
chose one of two keyboard solutions:
1) If you are working with Word, you could
set up key macros to type the special letters you need, or
This font + key(board) approach would
be cheaper and maybe just as effective.
I'll copy your letter and this reply to
the A12n groups and the Hausa Charsets & Keyboards forum for any other
feedback.
Hope this helps.
Don Osborn
Bisharat.net
----- Original Message -----
From: tanko abubakar
To:
bisharat@xxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday,
January 04, 2004 5:15 PM
Best compliments of the season.
I am glad to have visited your website through google search. I think you
are providing a great service to writers and researchers.
Kindly help me, if you can: I need a keyboard or software or wares that
will have both the characters of the IPA and also the characters of HAUSA
alphabets. I am working on a project that has to do with broad trancription as
well as continuous writing in Hausa. I would be most pleased to receive the most
helpful information including price list and how to order.
Waiting to hear from you soonest.
Abubakar.
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