<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Hi Nathan,<div>Thanks, that is great news, but for people in China, where Google Play is blocked, is there another way they can download the app? A colleague who works with Wa communities would like to have that app in particular, but I can imagine the Zhuang would also like to access the Zhuang version. </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div><div><br></div><div>Happy Niu Year,</div><div>Randy <br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my phone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On 13 Feb 2021, at 7:18 PM, Nathan Hill <nh36@soas.ac.uk> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Colleagues, <br></div><div><br></div><div>I am happy to announce that working with relevant community members for each language, Julien Bayley and I have now added Thadou, two orthographies of Wa, and standard Zhuang to the Microsoft Swiftkey mobile phone keyboard app. They appear in the app as follows. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Kuki (Thadou)<br></div><div>Vahcuengh</div><div>Wa (China) \ Loux Vāx (Joung Gox)<br></div><div>Wa (Myanmar) \ Loux Vax (Meung Man)</div><div><br></div><div>SwiftKey can be downloaded at Google Play or Apple's App Store. Please help us to spread this news among Wa, Zhuang, and Thadou speakers. <br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div>With help from many of you we had previously added Paite, Hruso, Hani, Galo, and Anong. We are eager to add more Asian minority languages. If you work with a language community that does not have a mobile phone predictive keyboard, please get in touch. <br></div><div><br></div><div>very best, <br></div><div>Nathan<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br>--<br>Dr Nathan W. Hill<br>Reader in Tibetan and Historical Linguistics<br>Research Coordinator, East Asian Languages and Cultures<br>SOAS, University of London<br>Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, UK<br>Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4512<br>Room 456<br>--<br>Profile -- <a href="http://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff46254.php" target="_blank">http://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff46254.php</a><br>Tibetan Studies at SOAS -- <a href="http://www.soas.ac.uk/cia/tibetanstudies/" target="_blank">http://www.soas.ac.uk/cia/tibetanstudies/</a><br>--</div></div></div></div></div>
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