World's most popular forum software, phpBB, now available in Afrikaans

TshwaneDJe Software and Translation is proud to announce the creation and release of a professionally translated Afrikaans Language Pack for the popular phpBB forum (bulletin board, or online user discussion) software. The Language Pack allows administrators of phpBB-based forums to provide Afrikaans as an optional forum language for their users. It can be downloaded here:

phpBB in Afrikaans »

If you are a user of a phpBB-based forum and would like to see it in Afrikaans, please ask your site administrator to install this!

The translation was done by Estea Fourie, with some help from Samuel Murray. The project was overseen by David Joffe. The work was made possible thanks to partial funding from Pharos Dictionaries, with TshwaneDJe covering the remainder of the cost.

The Language Pack covers all user-facing text strings and emails for ordinary forum users (though not administrator users), and the prosilver languageset, and is based on phpBB version 3.0.8.

About TshwaneDJe

TshwaneDJe are a leading Translation and Software company in South Africa, with a global customer base. We won the 2009 SATI (South African Translators Institute) Award for Outstanding Translation Dictionary for our Northern Sotho - English Dictionary (created and published in partnership with Oxford University Press), and we also created the new Oxford Zulu - English Dictionary (led by Prof. Dr. Gilles-Maurice de Schryver). We have also produced several other electronic and online dictionaries, developed the online dictionary websites for Pharos Dictionaries Online, the WAT (Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal), the Afrikaanse Woordelys en Spelreëls and more, and produce the industry-leading TLex dictionary compilation software, as well as tlTerm terminology software, data editing software and more.

We would be interested in obtaining funding to further this project or do other similar projects, and donations or offers of sponsorship would be welcome; please contact us if interested.

New Localization: TLex in Lingála

TLex is now also available in Lingála! Thanks goes to Bienvenu Sene Mongaba for the translation.

This is in addition to other languages such as French, Spanish, Irish and Cilubà. tlReader is also available in other languages such as Polish and Chinese.

Just a reminder that we offer free licenses or upgrades in exchange for translation/localization of any of our software applications. Contact us if you're interested!

tlReader Now In Chinese And Other Languages!

tlReader, our free viewer application for TLex and tlTerm dictionaries and termbases, can now be used in Chinese!

Thanks for the translation goes to the Bohan Foundation, who are working in cooperation with Beijing Foreign Studies University.

This release also includes initial translations of tlReader into French (thanks to Jacky Maniacky), Spanish (thanks to Dr. Ignacio Navascués), and Cilubà (thanks to Prof. N.S. Kabuta).

We offer free copies of our software to users in exchange for translating the software into new languages - please contact us if you are interested!

Translation Services: New languages

We have added many new languages already for our Language Services: Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Bengali, Bosnian, Croatian, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Hindi, Icelandic, Italian, Macedonian, Northern Sotho (Sepedi), Norwegian, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sesotho, Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Xhosa, Zulu

Translation and Other Language Services: New Division

We are now able to offer professional translation services, as well as other language services, including interpreting, proofreading, localization and transcription:

TshwaneDJe Language Services »

Immediately, these are available for English and Afrikaans (translation in both directions); we plan to add many more languages (worldwide) soon.

Freelance translators and other language service providers that are interested in offering their services to us can contact us here. We are particularly interested in translators with a focus on quality.

We are excited to be launching this new division in our growing company; these new offerings are complementary to our language software business.

New Website Section in French!

German Website Section

New German website section (Professionelle Lösungen zum Erstellen von Wörterbüchern)!

Added Afrikaans and Swahili

Two more new languages on our website: Afrikaans (Professionele Woordeboekmaak-oplossings and corresponding PDF) and Swahili (Zana za Kitaaluma za kuhariria Kamusi and corresponding PDF)

New Spanish Product Information

New Spanish website section (Soluciones profesionales de lexicografía) and corresponding PDF brochure!












If you're interested in helping translate for any other languages, let us know - we can provide free copies of our software in exchange for translation work.