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Welsh speakers wanted for game translation project
Rhiannon: Curse of the Four Branches is based on The Mabinogion, a collection of Welsh folklore. It would make sense to offer the adventure game in the Welsh language, right? Unfortunately, it doesn't make business sense, according to developer Arberth Studios, who estimates a cost of £16,500 to translate the approximately 30,000 words of text to Welsh."We have to try and translate this game into Welsh," Arberth's Noel Bruton told the BBC, "but there's just not enough Welsh speakers in the gaming market to justify the translation costs." The company is looking for volunteers to help translate the game, with the possibility of some unspecified compensation "if we made something out of the sales." Sure, it might basically be work for free, but it's really important for speakers of minority languages to have access to cultural materials -- plus it would be a pretty cool project for a Welsh school.
Welsh nab their first native-tongued phone and iPhone app in one month's time -- Cymru am byth!
Native speakers of Welsh, take heed! Orange has announced that a Welsh-language version of the Samsung S5600 will be made available in September. This would make it the first cellphone to handle the language, which has some 600,000 native speakers in Wales. The phone will contain 44,000 Welsh words, and was recently unveiled in Bala, Gwynedd. Also unveiled simultaneously was the first Welsh iPhone app, developed with English-speakers learning the language in mind, and will have a companion "Learn Welsh" phrasebook available in the iTunes store. Iechyd Da!
