Re: [sword-devel] Swahili localisation

2013-01-27 Thread Arthur Bolstad
An excellent resource center for Kisswahili would be Lutherans In Africa as they do regular translation into Kisswahili. They have experienced translators approved by the Lutheran Churchs in Kenya and Tanzania. http://www.lutheransinafrica.com Arthur Bolstad On 1/27/2013 2:37 AM, David Hasla

Re: [sword-devel] Swahili localisation

2013-01-27 Thread David Haslam
OT Swahili abbreviations are in parentheses. GEN - Genesis (Mwa) EXO - Exodus(Kut) LEV - Leviticus (Law) NUM - Numbers (Hes) DEU - Deuteronomy (Kum) JOS - Joshua(Yos) JDG - Judges(Amu) RUT - Ruth (Rut) 1SA - 1 Samuel (1 Sam) 2SA - 2 Samuel (2 Sam) 1KI - 1 Kings (1 Fa

Re: [sword-devel] Swahili localisation

2013-01-26 Thread David Haslam
The key to success was some lateral thinking, and remembering that Wikipedia has projects in 285 languages. With a bit of ingenuity, one can probably use the same method to find the book names and abbreviations for a high proportion of these languages. The point I made about the book of Philippia

Re: [sword-devel] Swahili localisation

2013-01-26 Thread Chris Burrell
Hi David Thanks for these. I'd done a few searches on Google and wikipedia myself. The issue is with finding the abbreviations. So thanks for the links above. It gives us the Swahili NT abbreviations. Chris On 26 January 2013 19:33, David Haslam wrote: > See also > > https://sw.wikipedia.org

Re: [sword-devel] Swahili localisation

2013-01-26 Thread David Haslam
See also https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agano_Jipya https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agano_la_Kale David -- View this message in context: http://sword-dev.350566.n4.nabble.com/Swahili-localisation-tp4651835p4651838.html Sent from the SWORD Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __

Re: [sword-devel] Swahili localisation

2013-01-26 Thread David Haslam
The full 66 book names are displayed as hyperlinks here: http://www.biblica.com/bibles/swahili/ David -- View this message in context: http://sword-dev.350566.n4.nabble.com/Swahili-localisation-tp4651835p4651837.html Sent from the SWORD Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___

Re: [sword-devel] Swahili localisation

2013-01-26 Thread David Haslam
I have the book names for the kiSwahili NT: Book: Matayo Book: Marko Book: Luka Book: Yohana Book: Matendo Ya Mitume Book: Warumi Book: 1 Wakorintho Book: 2 Wakorintho Book: Wagalatia Book: Waefeso Book: Wafilipi

[sword-devel] Swahili localisation

2013-01-26 Thread Chris Burrell
Hi I'd like to find out if anybody has some Swahili Bible Names/abbreviations. I can't find these in either JSword or Sword libraries. Perhaps this has never been done. Chris ___ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.