Zinox has been doing this for years

But seriously while it is a romantic idea. Is it necessary. Nigeria is not going to change it's official language so why bother. You're still submitting your reports, applications, projects in English.

Glory be to God Who by the work of this people He has rendered as failure the effort of those that wish Nigeria disintegrate. This is a new dawn of Nigeria. the New Nation will strive and succeed, InshaAllah. The Name and its passport will mean something, greater than when it was great. Amin.

redsquare: Good development. Like seriously, how many of us write/type or read in our local languages? How many of us use Google/Wikipaedia in Hausa,Igbo or Yoruba? I don't want to sound like a pessimist, but I foresee this project failing.

u sounded as one, wat is gud for d goose is also gud for gander. China,france,russia,japan and other country have dia own dialect in pc. So u think witout English dia will be no communication in d world,. ,maybe u dont know how to speak ur own native dialect ,dats why u said so , bro go and learn

This's impressive.
This's what Nigeria need to start doing.
Leverage on the expertise of your diasporean population to drive industrialization and economic growth,just like india has done.

Mamacita007: good idea. i wanna use microsoft word in igbo

I'm not sure you're aware that you can already use Microsoft word in Igbo. Igbo has been there for some time now. My Microsoft word is even 2007 edition & I confidently say to you that the following Nigerian languages are there as options in case you want to change. 1Bini (or another language from Edo ) 2.Hausa. 3.Igbo 4.Yoruba

redsquare: Good development. Like seriously, how many of us write/type or read in our local languages? How many of us use Google/Wikipaedia in Hausa,Igbo or Yoruba? I don't want to sound like a pessimist, but I foresee this project failing.

I speak & write english absolutely well,but my Google page has been permanently set to "Nigerian pidgin" cos I prefer that & I prefer feeling at home while reading articles. Pidgin for me is in fact more or less our central national language. This project is cool in my opinion.

This is similar to what I posted here on nairaland few weeks ago. We also need to make phones,computers,instruction manuals,electronics etc in Nigerian pidgin too.
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nice one, but we need to see something tangible. We are still waiting for the IQ and Maxtel made in Nigeria fone they promised to launch November; we are almost midway into December, and we never see anything.

Chartey: Am I the only one who sincerely thinks this is a white elephant? How many people in the "international market" speak these languages? If China or India does this, it's fine because they have at least a billion people each who understand Mandarin/Cantonese and Hindi. But how many people speak Yoruba and Igbo in the whole world? Hausa may be ok though.

They didn't say it would only be in indigenous languages.
They said it would recognize Nigerian languages,i.e English and other Nigerian languages.
Those who do not understand Nigerian languages will still be able to use it.

God bless my country and its pple. We can do better than the word know about...

Hope it would work(praying 4 them)-------- kidos 2 d ibos

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This is far fetched as you only need to have the input device like keyboard and keypads in your native language and make sure the software or operating system is in your language. What they actually need to do is to write software, systems and operating systems in our language and develop input device that is centric to our local languages.

Even those who developed wazobia linux already gave up the project but your language has to be standardized first before you can embark on this kind of projects.

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Its unfortunate that issue here is technical and not all can understand it. I guess the professor is not aware that it is only part of the resource file of an internationalized operating system like Windows, and others in that category, that has to be localized in any language of one's choice. Microsoft has taken this initiative years back in Johannesburg when it launched Language Localization Program (LLP) in which major African languages including Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo are to be used in Windows Operating system. Since, the company has invested millions of dollars on this project starting from Windows Vista. Now you can use those languages with Windows 7 and Windows 8.
This is a My Picture folder on Windows 8 with Yoruba Language.

You can download it for free on Microsoft site for both Office (office 2007, 2010) and Windows. We should not deceive ourselves, it is a capital intensive project and Microsoft itself handed it over to big translation company i.e Moravia worldwide, Logru, Lionbridge. I have worked as a Nigeria languages Project Manager for these company on Localization of Nigeria languages. If you are a Linguist and you are versatile in computer, you can join us, especially Hausa linguist.

Lubbish! Make una come produce motor, even my small Nokia phone dey speak Igbo.

Don't mind those diaspora dudes. Do they even know the local languages?