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# liblouis: Chichewa (Malawi)
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#
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# This file is part of liblouis.
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#
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# liblouis is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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# under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as
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# published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2.1 of the
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# License, or (at your option) any later version.
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#
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# liblouis is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
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# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
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# Lesser General Public License for more details.
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#
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# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
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# License along with liblouis. If not, see
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# <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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#
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#-index-name: Chichewa
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#-display-name: Chichewa braille
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#
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#-author: Jake Kyle
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#-author: Dipendra Manocha
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#-author: Martin Kieti
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#-maintainer: Jake Kyle <jake@compassbraille.org>
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#-updated: 2022
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#
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#+language: ny
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#+type: literary
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#+contraction: no
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#
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#-copyright: 2022, Compass Braille <http://www.compassbraille.org>
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#-copyright: 2022, the DAISY Consortium <https://daisy.org/>
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#-license: LGPLv2.1
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#
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# Copyright (C) 2022 by Compass Braille <http://www.compassbraille.org>
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# Copyright (C) 2022 by the DAISY Consortium <https://daisy.org/>
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#
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# With contributions from DAISY Consortium under project supported by Microsoft.
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#
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# This table is based on information provided by Ezekiel Kumwenda, Executive
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# Director of Malawi Union of the Blind, and Martin Kieti of The DAISY
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# Consortium in contact with Chichewa Braille readers. According to this
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# information:
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# - Chichewa (also known as Chinyanja) uses Latin script.
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# - Grade 2 braille is not used for Chichewa language.
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# - Unified English Braille has not been adopted in Malawi.
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#
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# The Braille code is thus most similar to Standard English Braille Grade 1
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# rather than Unified English Braille Grade 1. This is a similar situation to
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# Swahili (Kenya) Grade 1 code and therefore this table is based on Swahili
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# (Kenya) Grade 1 table with minor differences due to different letters being
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# legitimate standalone words.
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# Unlike in Swahili, the letter 'u' is not a standalone word in Chichewa. These
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# rules override Swahili table rules to ensure the letter 'u' is preceded by the
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# letter sign when it appears on its own.
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lowercase u 136
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base uppercase U u
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contraction u
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contraction U
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# Swahili (Kenya) Grade 1 table
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include sw-ke-g1.utb
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# Unlike in Swahili, the letter 'a' is a standalone word in Chichewa and so
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# must not be preceded by the letter sign.
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word a 1
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word A 1
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