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Harari, online.

A language with no digital presence — until now.

The Mission

Digitise a language.
Build its future.

Harari faces real pressure from larger dominant languages, and has virtually zero digital infrastructure — no machine-readable corpus, no translation tools, no learning platforms.

harar.dev brings together developers, linguists, researchers, and Harari speakers to change that. We're building the digital foundations the language needs to survive and thrive.

A language with no digital presence becomes searchable, learnable, and teachable — because its own community decided to build the infrastructure together.

How It Works

The work.

Community

Build the developer community

Free yourname.harar.dev subdomains for developers. A shared identity and a reason to show up.

Digitisation

Crowdsource the language

Collect words, phrases, sentences, and documents. Structure them into a machine-readable corpus. Every contribution is credited and permanent.

Language Tools

Build the future of Harari

Once the corpus is large enough: translation APIs, dictionaries, NLP models, and a learning app. The community builds the data. The data powers the tools.

Why It Matters

A language is only
as alive as its tools.

Digitally invisible

Harari has virtually no digital presence. No datasets, no translation models, no machine learning tooling. The foundations don't exist yet — someone has to lay them.

A closing window

Language preservation is time-sensitive. Every year, ground is lost to larger dominant languages. The people who carry this language won't be here forever.

Community-owned

The community owns the work. Contributions are credited and permanent.

Built to last

Not a side project or an experimental demo. Real infrastructure — versioned datasets, public APIs, community governance. Designed to outlive any single person.

The Road Ahead

Where this goes.

Where It Starts

Community and presence.

Free subdomains for developers. The first contributors joining from Harari communities everywhere.

What It Builds Toward

A living corpus.

A contribution system for words, phrases, sentences, and documents. Peer review. A dataset anyone can use.

Where It Leads

Translation. Learning. Access.

Searchable dictionaries. Translation between Harari and English or Amharic. A learning app with lessons and practice — built on data the community created.

Ready to help
build this?

Claim your free yourname.harar.dev subdomain and join the community building digital tools for the Harari language.

For developers

Pick up issues, open PRs, help build the platform. Your name goes in the Git history.

For speakers

Submit words, phrases, sentences. Verify and review what others contribute.

For researchers

Help design the corpus, NLP pipelines, and evaluation methodology.