The Windows 7 Kannada Language Interface Pack is live!
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Microsoft has released Windows 7 Kannada version and below is the note from the Windows development team, I am proud to be Kannadiga.
The Windows 7 kannada Language Interface Pack is live!
Ø Click here to download the Kannada Windows 7 LIP via the Microsoft.com Download Center.
Please note that the Kannada Windows 7 LIP can only be installed on a system that runs an English client version of Windows 7. It is only available for 32-bit systems.
The Kannada Windows 7 LIP is produced as part of the Local Language Program sponsored by Public Sector.
Localization was done by Webdunia (Translation), Central Institute of Indian Languages (Linguistic Moderator), and Lionbridge (Strategic Engineering Partner).
A little background information on Kannada
Number of speakers: 45 million speakers
Name in the language itself: ಕನ್ನಡ
Kannada is the state language of Karnataka, where it is mainly spoken, and one of India's many official languages. Sometimes also called Kanarese, Kannada is one of the Dravidian languages spoken in the South of India. It has about 20 dialects which can differ considerably, though the written form is rather consistent throughout.
Fun Facts:
- Works of Kannada literature have received seven Jnanpith awards, which is the highest number awarded for the literature in any Indian language.
- Several transliteration schemes/tools are used to type Kannada characters using a standard keyboard. Nudi, the government of Karnataka's standard for Kannada Input, is a phonetic layout loosely based on transliteration.
Classification:
Kannada, together with Tamil, Malayalam and others, belongs to the Southern group of the Dravidian languages. These form a language family on its own. Its languages are spoken on the Indian subcontinent, but are not related at all to Indic languages of the Indo-European family (like Hindi): The Dravidian languages are agglutinative (Words are formed by joining morphemes together) and have the interesting feature of an exclusive "we" (in which the addressee is not included).
Script:
Kannada is written in its own script.
Ø Click here for more information on the Kannada language.
Thanks to all those who participated in making this release a success!
· Windows LIP Engineering team (Dong Wang, Hsien-Yi Chen, Nik Loesken, Ning Wang, and most especially Jee-Young and Rafael Arvilla for final bug fixing!)
· Windows International Test team (Big thanks to Charles Zhou, Victor Martinez, Hidekatsu Takezawa, Anu Chinta, Steve Moody, Miki Albertson, Tony Mumm, Yali Bai, and especially to Charisse Underwood for regressing all those bugs!)
· Windows Localization Build team
· Windows Build teams and the Build lab
· Windows Release team
· Windows International Tools and Infrastructure team
· Pradeep Parappil and Puneet Raheja in the India subsidiary for their support and assistance during the project
Important note:
For information on the availability of physical deliverables for the OEM Royalty and System Builder Channels, please contact the following alias: oemlips.
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