Hi serpentlord,
This has turned out to be quite the project and I thought I'd better
send you what I have so far to give you a chance to get to work on it.
Please have a look and download the various fonts and confirm that
they fit your needs. Post a request for clarification for anything
that is lacking and we'll take it from there, ok?
"Welcome" in over 325 languages:
http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/welcome.htm
LANGUAGE.............................................."WELCOME"
TOKELAU (Tokelau Island).............................."Talofa lava"
Sound file:
http://lc.byuh.edu/Samoan/Les1/SL1gr.html
"The font is fully usable...Samoan":
http://www.sweb.cz/ls78/ttfonts.htm
OROMO (Kenia - Kenya, Ethiopië - Ethiopia)............."Simad'd'a"
"Oromo is written either with Amharic or Romanized script."
http://www.vada.nl/talenen.htm
(To view the Amharic text, download and install the freely available
Wazéma True Type fonts: A1&2 Desta, Tesfa, Kidan, Qelem)
http://members.aol.com/w4z5m4/html/download.html
Afaan Oromo
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Hornet/Afaan_Oromo_19777.html
MACEDONIAN (Macedonia)................................."Dobre doshle"
Macedonian (Macedonia)................................."Dobre
dojdovte"
Macedonian (Macedonia) [reply]........................."Dobro ve
najdovme"
"Macedonian Cyrillic: A TrueType Macedonian Cyrillic font developed by
one of our patrons Vlado Damjanovski"
Download Macedonian Cyrillic (27 k) For Windows
http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/fonts/macedonian.html
or try:
http://www.freelang.net/fonts/
LAO (Laos)............................................."Yin dee torn
lap"
"Lao Fonts: LaoFonts is a collection of five lao fonts of various
styles. Available in TrueType...for both the Macintosh and Windows."
Download Lao Fonts for the Macintosh (167 k) For Macintosh
Download Lao Fonts for Windows (217 k) For Windows
http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/fonts/lao.html
or try:
http://www.freelang.net/fonts/
AFRIKAANS (African Dutch)(South Africa)................"Welkom"
South African special characters font:
http://www.cyberserv.co.za/users/~jako/lang/fonts.htm
or try:
http://www.freelang.net/fonts/
History:
http://www.cyberserv.co.za/users/~jako/lang/afr.htm
ASSYRIAN...............................................?
Some alternate Assyrian phrases:
http://www.aina.org/aol/lang1.htm
True Type Font:
http://www.assyrian.dk/
or try:
http://www.freelang.net/fonts/
BURMESE (Myanmar)......................................"Mingalaba"
Windows Thiree:
This is a True Type font and will work on Windows 3.1x and Windows 95.
Thiree.zip [23Kb] Compressed
Windows Keyboard layout (GIF) [10Kb]
or try:
http://www.nandawon.demon.co.uk/burmese-fonts/freefont.htm
Burmese
Download Burmese for Windows (17K) For Windows
Download Burmese for Mac (18 K) For Macintosh
http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/fonts/burmese.html
or try:
http://www.freelang.net/fonts/
I hope this helps - I'll look forward to hearing from you.
Thank you,
hummer
Google Terms Used:
oromo fonts
fonts "Afaan Oromo"
"true type" Amharic
fonts Amharic
fonts "Amharic script"
burmese "true type font"
Afrikaans fonts
"African Dutch" fonts
fonts macedonian
fonts "Talofa lava"
Samoan "true type fonts"
Tokelau language
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Request for Answer Clarification by
serpentlord-ga
on
02 Jun 2003 17:26 PDT
Thank you very much for your hard work. I really appreciate it. The
font files work beautifully.
The only problem that remain now is to find a way to write the word
welcome in that very language --- for eg. I have installed the Burmese
font and want to write the word Welcome in Burmese, which is
"Mingalaba". Now, since I don't speak/read/write Burmese, I don't know
what letters to press on the keyboard so that the word "Mingalaba"
gets spelled out on the screen.
Would it be a big task to find out how to do that? Just wondering if
it can be done in about 24 hours?
Thank you for your time
The Serpent Lord
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Clarification of Answer by
hummer-ga
on
02 Jun 2003 19:28 PDT
Hi Serpent Lord,
Here are three - see how you make out.
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/Macedonian.htm
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/lao.htm
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/burmese.htm
Set your font to one of them. Open up your notepad. Type each key, one
by one, making a note which keys match the ones you need to make the
word (for example,
Mingalaba). While you're working on those, we'll look for the others
(I won't get back to you until Tuesday).
Good luck! hummer
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Clarification of Answer by
hummer-ga
on
02 Jun 2003 19:39 PDT
Dear Serpent Lord,
I'm sorry, I was so intent on working on the alphabets that I didn't
thank you for your nice message, rating and tip - thank you - I'm
happy you are happy. I hope we can get the information workable for
you, though. hummer
Here's another Burmese:
http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/romanization/burmese.pdf
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Clarification of Answer by
hummer-ga
on
03 Jun 2003 07:41 PDT
Good morning Serpent Lord,
For "Talofa lava", try here:
http://lc.byuh.edu/Samoan/frame1.html
"(Note that in order to read proper written Samoan, you should have
installed the Pacific island fonts into your computer as available
from the Olelo Project."
I take that to mean that since you have the fonts downloaded, the
first phrase on the page should be "Talofa lava" in "proper written
Samoan".
....hummer
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Clarification of Answer by
hummer-ga
on
03 Jun 2003 08:42 PDT
OROMO: Amharic
Ethiopic Transliteration Chart:
http://www.uni-mainz.de/Organisationen/TLA/dokumentation/trnstb.html
Hello/Hi: selam/tadiyaas
Welcome to... : selam
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/GenX_jt_mtjr/GenXAmharic.html
The most important Cushitic languages are Oromo, Somali, and Afar.
http://www.cyberethiopia.com/ethiopic/
...hummer
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Clarification of Answer by
hummer-ga
on
03 Jun 2003 11:26 PDT
Hello Serpent Lord - good news with this one -
The Assyrian Aramaic Language Website:
http://assyrianlanguage.com/
Click on Level Four and then Lesson 120, sixth phrase down:
[Aramaic text not copyable but it's there!]
bshâyna w-wâshlama (transcription)
'Welcome' In tranquility and in peace (translation)
If you click on Level One, you'll be able to go through the alphabet,
one by one if you want to.
I think that's about it at this end - I hope all goes well at your
end. It's been very interesting but I'm starting to go cross-eyed!
I hope your poster turns out great,
Sincerely,
hummer
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