"The Kamusi Project is a participatory international effort dedicated to improving knowledge of the world's languages. Our long term mission is to produce dictionaries and other language resources for every language, and to make those resources available for free to everyone."
The project initially arose from the 'Internet Living Swahili dictionary' and has expanded to many additional African languages.
From my experience of living in Tanzania having a comprehensive dictionary is surprisingly difficult, and Google Translate is far from being very reliable! Spoken and written Swahili is often very different and in addition, while Swahili is spoken throughout East Africa there are variations across regions and countries. The appeal of the Kamusi is that it is created and developed by people themselves and so hopefully will reflect the language in use.
The project initially arose from the 'Internet Living Swahili dictionary' and has expanded to many additional African languages.
From my experience of living in Tanzania having a comprehensive dictionary is surprisingly difficult, and Google Translate is far from being very reliable! Spoken and written Swahili is often very different and in addition, while Swahili is spoken throughout East Africa there are variations across regions and countries. The appeal of the Kamusi is that it is created and developed by people themselves and so hopefully will reflect the language in use.
Thank you!