Background
Swahili is a language spoken in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, Mozambique, and in parts of the Horn of Africa and Great Lakes by about 100 million people. Most use Windows and Microsoft Office, but since that is not available in Swahili, they have to use English or French. The Open Swahili Localization Project (the long version for Kilinux) tried to reduce this threshold by localizing Open Office. In June 2004 Microsoft announced a Swahili version of Windows.
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