Development of Fonts for African Scripts: Using Computer Technologies to Preserve Africa s Written Heritage

Domain:

natural language processing

Creator:

Rov

Publisher:

AAe

Host:

The issue of the font making for modern indigenous African scripts is briefly discussed. Encoding problems, including the Unicode standard, are addressed. Font samples are presented for some of the scripts.

Visit

doi.org journals.ub.uni-koeln.de

Licenses

https://lizenzen.hbz-nrw.de/dppl/3.0/

Core technologies for conjunctively written South African languages

During this SADiLaR funded project, enriched corpora for the four official South African languages w

Modified Segmentation Algorithm for Recognition of Older Geez Scripts Written on Vellum

Recognition of handwritten document aims at transforming document images into a machine understandable format. Handwritten document recognition is the most challenging area in the field of pattern recognition. It becomes more complex when a document was written on

South African Fonts

The South African fonts collection is a set of open fonts that cover all characters needed by all 11

s-k-ahmed/atr-scripts

a collection of scripts used in my MA thesis for the collection and analysis of acoustic measurement

The use of technology to preserve indigenous languages of South Africa

Indigenous languages in South Africa must be preserved to ensure that they do not lose their identit

Tūhono Africa: Partnering to preserve kwali indigenous knowledge practices

This paper investigates the neglected condition of both physical and digital preservation o