<div dir="ltr">Hi Randy (from a different Nathan),<div>Many people use sites like this: <a href="https://m.apkpure.com/microsoft-swiftkey-keyboard/com.touchtype.swiftkey" target="_blank">https://m.apkpure.com/microsoft-swiftkey-keyboard/com.touchtype.swiftkey</a> to download apps when they can't get them through the Play Store.</div><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Nathan</div></font></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 9:01 PM Nathan Hill <<a href="mailto:nh36@soas.ac.uk">nh36@soas.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Randy, <br></div><div><br></div><div>This is an issue. People in China only have the option to use a VPN. It would be nice if Huawei carried SwiftKey, but due to Trump policy (that I don't think has been reversed), if Microsoft worked with Huawei they could not sell in the US. The app does have many users in China, and they can delete the VPN as soon as they have used it. <br></div><div><br></div><div>sorry to not have a better solution, <br></div><div>Nathan<br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br><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><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 9:08 AM Randy LaPolla <<a href="mailto:randy.lapolla@gmail.com" target="_blank">randy.lapolla@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div 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 <<a href="mailto:nh36@soas.ac.uk" target="_blank">nh36@soas.ac.uk</a>> 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"><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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