Scientist develops keyboards in Nigerian languages

A scientist has developed linguascript keyboards that might textual content and kind in Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba languages to make sure Nigerian languages don’t go into extinction.
 
The writer of the challenge, Nnenna Nwosu, who's a senior lecturer on the Federal College of Ndufu-Alieke Ikwo (FUNAI), Ebonyi State, defined that the plug and play keyboards incorporate all of the alphabets of the three main languages.
 
Nwosu says that the innovation is a specialised keyboard that makes use of numerals representing vowels and consonants as an alternative of the traditional Latin orthography, including that every quantity represents a letter, which might kind or ship messages utilizing the quantity.
 
The challenge, offered on the establishment’s exhibition stand in the course of the just-concluded Nationwide Science, Expertise and Innovation Expo 2018 in Abuja, acquired the third finest total within the tertiary establishment class.
 
She mentioned the concept was borne out of the truth that illiterate and semi-illiterate individuals are inclined to recognise and retain numerals sooner and longer than letters as they'll simply and people of there contacts.
 
The challenge writer additional defined that the linguascript keyboard was designed for each cell phones and pc keyboard equipment to make indigenous languages accessible to everyone in order to afford IT customers extra causes to assume and kind in their very own languages.