African Carpentries Community meetup with Lanfrica
Lanfrica and the problems facing the advancement of technologies for African languages On Thursday, August 11 2022, at 7:00 a.m. UTC, Lanfrica presented at the CarpentryCon 2022 event, hosted by The African Carpentries Community. About the talk Africa is one of the most linguistically diverse regions in the world – a continent rich in languages […]
Fon Language Highlight
The Fon language is spoken by about 1.7-2 million people. With very few related resources available online, it is one of the truly low-resourced African languages, which still needs attention despite its rich and dense morphology. Summary of the language Fon is an African language spoken by the Fon people, mostly living in the center […]
Lanfrica v1 has been launched!
The last few months have been full of activity at Lanfrica, and we are happy to announce that Lanfrica is officially launched. Why Lanfrica? Lanfrica aims to mitigate the difficulty encountered in the discovery of African language resources by creating a centralized, language-first catalog. For instance, if you’re looking for resources (linguistic datasets or research papers) in […]
