global-asp/global-asp

Global ASP - African Storybook Project for the World # Global ASP - African Storybook Project Stories for the World ## Overview The goal of this project is to translate the freely-licensed materials created by the African Storybook Project into all of the world's languages so that children and language learners everywhere can enjoy these wonderful African stories and create new ones in the same spirit. All languages are welcome, although translations into African languages should usually be directed to the African Storybook Project main site rather than here. We are particularly interested in translations into languages that have very few resources for early childhood learning. For example, if you are involved in indigenous language revitalization, minority language education, or heritage language learning, we would love it if you could join the project. ## PDFs All of the audio, images, and PDFs associated with this project can be downloaded from the links found here. ## Structure Each top level folder represents a language, identified by its ISO 639-1 or ISO 639-3 code, with a preference for the ISO 639-1 "Alpha-2 code", if it exists. For major languages, this code is usually two characters long (e.g., `es`, `zh`, `ar`), although some languages may have three characters (e.g., `yue`). Within each folder, files are grouped by _story number_ (a four-digit index number that unambiguously identifies the story within the collection). The _basename_ for each story consists of the _story number_ followed by an underscore (`_`), and then the translated name of the story in lower case with any spaces replaced by dashes (`-`). All of the source files in the repository are stored in Markdown format, and consist of the _basename_ plus the Markdown extension `.md`. Alternate, binary and other formats generated from the source files are named with the _basename_ followed by the appropriate format extenstion. For example, the Norwegian story _En veldig høy mann_ is story `#0001`, so the base filename is `0001_en-veldig-h …