Autshumato (or Autshumao; Herry or Harry de Strandloper) was a chief of the Khoikhoi Gorinhaikonas (or Goringhaicona) who worked as an interpreter for the Europeans in present-day, Cape Town, South Africa prior and during the establishment of the Dutch settlement on the Cape of Good Hope in 1652.[1]
Autshumato Harry de Strandloper
Autshumato
Born
Unknown
c. 1625
Died
1663
Nationality
Gorinhaikona
Other names
Harry de Strandloper, Herry de Strandloper, Autshumao
Occupation
Interpreter
Years active
1630-1663
Known for
Interpreter for the Dutch Settlers of Cape Town
His date of birth is unknown, but it is thought that he lived between about 1625 and 1663. In 1630, he was taken to Bantam, there he was taught English and Dutch in order to facilitate trade between settlers and his people. As chief and interpreter he accrued considerable wealth. In 1632, he moved to Robben Island, working as postman and liaison for European ships passing the island. Moving back to the mainland eight years later, Autshumato worked to create trade between the Gorinhaikonas and the Dutch.[2]
In the year 1658, Jan van Riebeeck imprisoned Autshumato on Robben Island. Despite his escape with another prisoner, the Dutch settlers allowed him to resume his work as an interpreter for the rest of his lifetime.
The South African Department of Arts and Culture and the Centre for Text Technology (CTexT®), at the North-West University (NWU) initiated a project named after Autshumato in 2007. The aims of the Autshumato project is to research, develop and support open-source translation software in order to promote multilingualism and access to information in South Africa.[4] The project is still active and the following outputs have been developed and released:
An Integrated Translation Environment (ITE); which is a derived work of the popular open-source OmegaT CAT tool.
A Terminology Management System (TMS),
Several machine translation (MT) systems for automatic translation in the government domain; developed language pairs include: English (EN-GB) into Afrikaans (AF-ZA), IsiZulu (ZU-ZA), Sepedi (NSO-ZA), Xitsonga (TS-ZA) and Setswana (TN-ZA).
Machine translation web service; through this service anyone can gain access to the MT systems developed as part of the Autshumato project.
The systems and software of the Autshumato project is released on SourceForge.net.[5]
Referencesedit
^"Autshumao (Herry the Strandloper) | South African History Online". www.sahistory.org.za. Retrieved 2019-10-16.
^"Autshumao (Herry the Strandloper) | South African History Online". www.sahistory.org.za. Retrieved 2019-10-16.
^sahoboss (2011-02-17). "Autshumao (Herry the Strandloper)". South African History Online. Retrieved 2018-07-26.
South African Department of Arts and Culture website
Autshumato Machine Translation Web Service site
January 01, 1970
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