Wikinews
The office suite was translated from the English version of OpenOffice.org, an open source suite based on Sun Microsystems’ StarOffice. This is the first ever release of a word processor in Swahili. The translation effort required translating 18,000 English strings, made up of one or more words, many of which have previously had no direct Swahili equivalent. As part of the translation, the team developed a glossary of 1500 technical words in Swahili. >> continue