Internet search engine Mozilla Firefox has launched a project in Uganda to translate its searches into the local Luganda language.
Once complete, the search engine will enable Luganda speakers to search on the internet.
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The Baganda are the largest of Uganda's almost 40 ethnic groups, making up more than 16% of the population.
The project is being undertaken in collaboration with Uganda's Makerere University, South Africa's Rhodes University and Translate.org.za, a non-profit organisation.
Basic words
The BBC's Joshua Mmali in Kampala says 120 software engineers and 120 language specialists held a one-day workshop in the capital, Kampala, to work on the project.
Basic words have been translated into Luganda in the first stages of the month-long project, our correspondent says.
Venacious Baryamureba, the dean of Makerere's Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, said the project would increase the number of people using computers in Uganda.
"Everything is available in English and there are people who know Luganda, who can read Luganda but cannot read English. So it's a step towards localising most of these things into local content."
Our correspondent says Ugandans are looking forward to using Luganda and other local languages to search for information on the internet.
Microsoft launched its Windows and Office software in Kiswahili - which is spoken by more than 110 million people across eastern and central Africa - in 2005.
Language experts from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Zanzibar as well as the Great Lakes and the Democratic Republic of Congo developed a common glossary for the software.
(BBC)
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