The app “WordCreator” does basic word and letter frequency counts as well as a couple of other interesting things which grass-roots literacy workers or primer developers may need when designing curriculum for unwritten languages.
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Brief survey of tools for digital learning
At the time of this writing, the world has experienced some major disruptions due to an outbreak of a viral disease labeled “COVID-19”. Apart from…
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Windows Phonetic Keyboards for Indic Languages
It’s great to see that you can now use simple “type as it sounds”, phonetic keyboards with Indic languages (which include Nepali) on Windows, in…
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Santali Roman Keyboard
To type Santali using roman letters (with diacritics) download and install this file. Installation Download and open the zip archive Copy the “exe” file to…
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Handy Linux Software
Cerebro If you’re a Mac user, you’ve probably come to know and love Spotlight. Cerebro is off to a good start providing some of that…
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Happy Mother Language Day!
Many people in the “monolingual world” might not be aware that each ear, the 21st day of February is commemorated by UNESCO as “International Mother…
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Automatically Trace your Photos using Inkscape
A while back I got a chance to see a well-trained DTP artist in action. This man was using Adobe Illustrator like a pro, turning…
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Three T’s of Literacy
When it comes to mother tongue literacy programs (including the first stages of Multilingual Education (MLE), it can be helpful to think of these three…
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17 Goals … Yes, that’s a lot
In the year 2000 country leaders agreed to work toward eight “Millennium Development Goals” which were meant to make the world a better place by…
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Type Indian Languages on Linux using KMFL
This article is not so much for “mainstream” multilingual typists1. Here we discuss flexible typing systems for those working in non-standard languages. For those of…