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Kilinux (klnX), the Open Swahili Localization Project, is a project by the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA), the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), and IT+46[1] for localizing major applications to the Swahili language.
It is based in Tanzania and run on Linux, and aims to create an operating system in Swahili, which is spoken by an estimated 100 million people. The project was started as a joint effort between the University of Dar es Salaam and Swedish company IT +46.
- ^ "Because it could be done, we play our part! Swahili Free and Open Source Software". 4 December 2004. Archived from the original on 25 February 2009. Retrieved 30 December 2011.