[BRIEF NOTE] FireFox in Maya
Oct. 15th, 2009 05:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldI'd like to thank Facebook's Marco for linking to this article on First Nations and technology in Mexico, translated into English thanks to Google.
The project's website is below.
http://firefox.linuxmerida.org/
The Mayan languages are among the most successful surviving indigenous languages in the Americas, with major languages like Yucatec and K'iche' having hundreds of thousands or even millions of speakers and something like thirty distinct languages. Since Mexico is a relatively wealthy middle-income country, with a standardized Mexican Mayan language and a relatively strong ideological commitment to the pre-Columbian elements of what was once Mesoamerica, it's not too surprising that this came about. I wonder if the Mexican Mayan's Guatemalan counterparts will follow suit?
Mozilla Mexico published a version of an add-in (Add-on) for FireFox which is a package to use the browser in Mayan language, (myn-Mx), which is available through the official site www.mozilla.org in this address: http://addons.mozilla.org/es-ES/firefox/addon/14427
This plugin for Firefox in Maya is developed by the team Firefox Merida with support from specialists in the Maya language at Universidad de Oriente (in Veracruz).
According to the creators this translation for the following purposes:
- Help strengthen national identity and pride
- Together a multicultural team in software development work for free access.
- Provide opportunities for Mayan-speaking and involving technology development
- Acting as a catalyst and an example for future projects.
The project's website is below.
http://firefox.linuxmerida.org/
The Mayan languages are among the most successful surviving indigenous languages in the Americas, with major languages like Yucatec and K'iche' having hundreds of thousands or even millions of speakers and something like thirty distinct languages. Since Mexico is a relatively wealthy middle-income country, with a standardized Mexican Mayan language and a relatively strong ideological commitment to the pre-Columbian elements of what was once Mesoamerica, it's not too surprising that this came about. I wonder if the Mexican Mayan's Guatemalan counterparts will follow suit?
