Ojibwe Translation

[Andrew Hunter]

I would say (for the actuall translating) that you should contact the 
launchpad team and see if either a translation project is already started 
(who knows) and if not then to start one. 

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On Friday 20 October 2006 10:11, Matt Smith wrote:
> I love this idea ... would be a real winner for the 6 nations.
>
> Do you have a list of what needs to be translated? I'd love to see what I
> can do to help, I'm down in southeast sask, and have access to about a half
> dozen nearby rez/communities.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matt
>
> On 10/19/06, Anthony Yarusso <tonyyarusso at earthlink.net> wrote:
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> > I'm interested in starting a translation effort for Anishnaabemowin (AKA
> > Ojibwe/Odawa/Oji-Cree), along the same lines as Corey's
> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuInuktitut "crazy idea".  I am just
> > starting to learn the language in university, so don't have a lot of
> > personal knowledge yet, although I am getting some good contacts for
> > this sort of thing.  I am wondering if anyone else on the list has
> > connections to Ojibwe speakers that might be willing to help.  My
> > professors here speak the Central dialect (Manitoulin Island), and are
> > not very tech-savvy, so we may have trouble getting many of the sorts of
> > words needed for an Ubuntu translation.  However, one prof in particular
> > is pretty high up on the national translators stage, so I have at least
> > secondary access to quite a bit theoretically.  It would be especially
> > helpful if anyone knows people or organizations in other dialect
> > regions, as the newer the word, the more variance there will be (meaning
> > computer-related words may be totally different from one place to the
> > next).  Any feedback, contacts, or suggestions welcome.
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