Bridging language divides using a cellphone

Mail & Guardian, 22 Dec 2006 08:51.
Sumayya Ismail Johannesburg, South Africa

...According to Thabo Olivier, the creator of a new multilingual software programme for cellphones...

By using the software to choose a base language (such as English) and another language (in this case Sesotho), the perplexed tourist can scroll through the programme's list of sentences. Choosing "I am lost", for instance, he would find its Sesotho translation, "Ke Lahlehile", with an accompanying voice recording...