Following the news from original source with the help of translators is not just the future, it is now. I love the potential of automatic translators for communicating across borders. BlogCFA is meant to tap into the Money-Talk-minded Francophone. It urgently needs bloggers, lest it die so young. Please don't let this happen. Be a blogger or invite a blogger. Feedback and suggestions welcome.Challenge:
Africa may house HUNDREDS of languages, but with maybe six, most people can communicate. Which Six? How would you arrange a virtual forum that works?
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six originally african languages for wide communication? I will say Hausa, Swahilli, Twi , Yoruba, and any two particular to a region. These ones above have at least 30 million users
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Not necessarily indigenous languages, I guess, so English, French, Arabic are likely in top six, especially if we're thinking "book people."
Didn't know Twi was huge...agree with Swahili for sure. Maybe some kind of pidgin? Maybe Hausa will make the cut.
Probably the technologies need to be voice/image based, not text.
Mostly, the text-heavy communications are matched with English/French/Arabic, while colloquial languages don't match with writing that much...Like I find it hard to read pidgin, or type Yoruba...
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