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PR-MOTHER-LANGUAGE-DAY SAPA PR -- 11 FREE SPELL CHECKERS TO CELEBRATE MOTHER LANGUAGE DAY |
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Feb 19, 2010 at 11:48 AM |
ISSUED BY: TRANSLATE ORG
ATTENTION: NEWS EDITORS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
19 FEBRUARY 2010
11 FREE SPELL CHECKERS TO CELEBRATE MOTHER LANGUAGE DAY
South Africa, 17 February, 2010: Spelling correctly in your
mother tongue is now easy thanks to the work of award winning
Translate.org.za. Updated spell checkers in all 11 official
languages have been released to celebrate International Mother
Language Day on the 21 February.
The spell checkers work in leading office suites, email programs
and web browsing software allowing spell checking to happen on
Facebook, blogs, Wikipedia, Twitter, instant messengers. Of course
it also spell checks your documents.
International Mother Language Day is held every year by UNESCO.
The spell checkers provides power to the drive towards mother
language education and empowers our languages - the most powerful
instruments of preserving and developing our heritage.
The spell checker together with Mother Language Day create a
perfect opportunity for you to do something for your language. What
will you do for your language? Dwayne Bailey, director at
Translate.org.za, says "Why not install the Firefox webbrowser and
the spell checker and contribute one article in your language today
to Wikipedia for the sake of the next generation."
Translate has been hard at work improving the spell checkers.
The Zulu spell checker was improved dramatically with the help of
researchers from UNISA, while the Northern Sotho, Tswana and Sotho
spell checkers have been bolstered by inputs from researchers at
the University of Pretoria.
The latest versions of the spell checkers can be downloaded free
from bit.ly/sa-spell with free online community support
available at bit.ly/translate-support
Dwayne Bailey from Translate.org.za is available for interviews.
His fields of specialisation include:
.Free and Open Source Software
.Multilingualism
.Software translation
.Language rights advocacy
For more information or to arrange an interview, please contact:
Dwayne Bailey (083 443 7114)
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