SInce my Firefox was updated, I took a look at some language
& translation related add-ons to see what might be of use for African languages.
Here's a short list (the three categoreies are ones that I assigned). Any other
suggestions are welcome. Don
1. TRANSLATION
To / From Amharic
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5145
by abebaw
Translates the selection to / from Amharic / English using
the free online Amharic dictionary http://www.amharicdictionary.com
Version 0.1 — July 18, 2007
Open-Tran
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4751
by GoofyFr
This is a plain and simple lightweight extension. It helps
you to get translation suggestions from this brilliant site and service to be
found here : http://open-tran.eu/. Many thanks to Jacek Śliwerski who
created this site !
Version 0.1.1 — April 25, 2007
[Afrikaans, Arabic, Hausa, Malagasy, Kinyarwanda, Swati,
Venda, Xhosa, and Zulu are indicated as being supported by open-tran.eu
FoxLingo
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2444
by Yotam Elal
The Ultimate Language Tool...
Version 2.1.4 — November 30, 1999
Version 2.1.4 — January 22, 2007 — 1,245 KB
[Afrikaans is indicated as being among the languages
supported]
2. LOCALE SWITCHERS
Quick Locale Switcher
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1333
by Captain Caveman
Allows you to quickly change and apply a different locale
(language) in your Mozilla application.
Version 1.6.2 — July 13, 2007
Locale Switcher
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/356
by bsmedberg
Displays a menu item for switching the application...
Version 2.1 — June 23, 2007
3. INPUT
Any key
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3990
by Roman Mironenko, taye
Allows typing into phonetic Russian, Ukrainian, Amharic,
Arabic, Armenian, Hindi Davangari, Hebrew, Mongolian, greek... transforming
translit into the choosen language...
Version 1.5.7 — May 22, 2007
Zombie Keys
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2335
by Kai Bolay
Entering European languages (which include diacritics
(accented characters, diaeresis, umlauts, etc.), ligatures, the Euro sign,
etc.) into Mozilla applications using an English keyboard doesn't have to be a
pain any more!
Version 1.1.4 — May 8, 2007
