Edited by author 07-29-2006 09:52 AM
This message board is intended for the discussion of topics related to the use of three closely related languages of Nigeria - Ibibio, Efik, and Anaang - on computers and the internet.Its creation is prompted by a question received indirectly for help with fonts and developing keyboards for Ibibio. I have indluded Efik and Anaang as these are related and perhaps some of the work done on one or another can be shared by all.
This is one of several message boards specific to languages and countries of Africa - others are listed at
http://www.quicktopic.com/share?s=QSpo . It is the fourth to deal with languages of Nigeria (there are already forums for Hausa, Yoruba, and Igbo), and the first to deal with any of the so-called "millionaire" languages of the country. That is, the speakership of these languages is in the millions but not in the tens of millions like the largest three.
It is also the first message board in in this network to propose to deal with a set of closely related languages - in this case Ibibio, Efik, and Anaang. All the others deal either with specific languages individually - namely the "decamillionaire" languages of Hausa, Yoruba, and Igbo - or with all languages of a given country on a country-by-country basis: Ghana, Togo, Benin, Burkina Faso, and Senegal. So it is a bit of a new experiment in that regard.
Further
information on the Ibibio, Efik, and Anaang languages can be read at
http://www.panafril10n.org/wikidoc/pmwiki....oc/EfikIbibioAnaang .
See also the
A12n-gateway page at
http://www.bisharat.net/A12N for information on other forums for communicating about African languages and ICT.
Don Osborn, Ph.D. dzo@bisharat.net
*Bisharat! A language, technology & development initiative
*Bisharat! Initiative langues - technologie - développement
http://www.bisharat.net*PanAfrican Localisation Project
*Projet panafricain sur la localisation
http://www.bisharat.net/PanAfrLoc (new domain coming)
