The folks that publish the Swahili-English dictionary (I can't remember their name) ought to have a corpus in digital form that's lying somewhere.

Also, if you're into computational linguistics, Google released their N-gram corpus a couple of years ago and it's available for download: http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/08/all-our-n-gram-are-belong-to-you.html

On May 29, 2013, at 11:27 AM, Christian Ledermann <christian.ledermann@gmail.com> wrote:

> and
> https://wiki.ushahidi.com/display/WIKI/Localization+and+Translation
>
> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Christian Ledermann
> <christian.ledermann@gmail.com> wrote:
>> http://blog.ushahidi.com/2013/05/17/in-your-own-words/
>>
>> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Martin Chiteri
>> <martin.chiteri@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hello Skunks,
>>>
>>> I would like to request for a substantial amount of words, phrases or
>>> sentences written in Swahili together with their equivalents in the English
>>> language. I know this is a tall order but I guess that some people on these
>>> lists might have samples, perhaps from projects done for translations (Bible
>>> / Website / stand-alone systems internationalization efforts and so forth).
>>>
>>> The aim is to get enough material that will be used in a machine learning
>>> based project in an upcoming Hackathon next month. We would like to train
>>> machines to recognize phrases in the different languages then attempt to use
>>> similar techniques to make them detect various sub-atomic particle types
>>> from another set of Physics data.
>>>
>>> Any help will be highly appreciated. Thank you.
>>>
>>> Martin.
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> If you save the living environment, the biodiversity that we have left,
> you will also automatically save the physical environment, too. But If
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