AbiWord

AbiWord is a free & open source (FOSS) wordprocessor.

African language support

The AbiWord website at http://www.abisource.com/languages.phtml indicates that it "supports" the following languages, but without a dictionary for spellchecking:

• Afrikaans
• Amharic
• Arabic (Egypt and Saudi Arabia)
• Hausa (Niger and Nigeria)

Localised versions or localisation projects

Apparently AbiWord has been localised in:

• Lingala
• Wolof

Links

• AbiWord site http://www.abisource.com/
• Wikipedia pages:
  • EN http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AbiWord
  • FR http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/AbiWord
  • PT http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/AbiWord