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by lelanthran 654 days ago
I'm wondering what problem you experienced that this is a solution for.

"African languages" is not, in my experience, a single class of languages. There are large differences between the languages, with most of the northern languages borrowing heavily from Arabic, most of the central African/West African languages borrowing from French and the rest are different enough that they can't be considered dialects.
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filleduchaos 654 days ago
What does that have to do with an IME library/project?
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teractiveodular 654 days ago
IMEs are usually very narrowly targeted at a single language or script. Claiming that this one is somehow superior to existing solutions for an entire continent's worth of languages with wildly different phonologies is unusual.
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pythonbrad 654 days ago
`afrim` is not just an IME. It can be used as a library to develop another IME. It's an important point that I neglected in the README.
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lelanthran 653 days ago
> `afrim` is not just an IME. It can be used as a library to develop another IME. It's an important point that I neglected in the README.

That's all good, but I am very curious about the use-case that motivated the creation of this project.

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