The first Shona corpus is being converted to TEILite format. It consists
mostly of spoken material (interviews). It will be expanded and more
printed material will be added in the next phase. The first phase was
successfully concluded with the publication of the dictionary very recently.
The next phase will also take up Ndebele, closely related to Zulu. The
same kind of work will be done there.
The project leader is Herbert Chimhundu at the University of Zimbabwe,
Dept. of African Languages and Literature. You can reach him by e-mail:
I am personally involved and in Oslo the partners are Oddrun Groenvik
(oddrun.gronvik@inl.uio.no) and Christian Emil Ore
(c.e.ore@dokpro.uio.no).
If you were to get in touch with Herbert Chimhundu I am certain he would
gladly send you some of the project's progress reports.
Dr. Herbert Chimhundu
Allex Project
African Languages Department
University of Zimbabwe
P O Box MP 167
Mt. Pleasant
Harare
Zimbabwe
Hope this helps,
Daniel Ridings
ridings@svenska.gu.se
On Fri, 4 Oct 1996, Sue R. Browning wrote:
>
> Does anyone know of any copora or other information for the African languages
> (Zulu, Xhosa, etc)?
>
> I would be very grateful if someone could point me in the right direction.
>
> Please email me - all replies will be acknowledged.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Sue Browning
> srb@signal.dra.hmg.gb
>