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Welcome to Maneno Engine

You have landed on the official blog of the Maneno Engine. Keep watch on this space for the developing story of the Maneno Engine. This is an English-Kiswahili translator that works in all operating systems that have Java enabled. An Android version with an expanded database or words will be available by August 2014. See http://code.google.com/p/manenoengine/ for the desktop application.

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