The South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) is a national centre supported by the Department of Science, Technology and Innovation (DSTI). SADiLaR has an enabling function, with a focus on all official languages of South Africa, supporting research and development in the domains of language technologies and language-related studies in the humanities and social sciences.

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SWiP is a collaborative initiative by the South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR); the free encyclopaedia (Wikipedia) and the Pan South African Language Board (PanSALB). This project aims to bring together communities of language practice practically to advance and celebrate the use of South African Languages and aims to encourage communities of practice to actively participate in contributing to the free encyclopaedia (Wikipedia). Read more about SWiP…

Latest news & events

Announcing the 2025 NWU OER fellows and SADiLaR OER champions

5 September 2025 The NWU is pleased to announce the successful candidates for two prestigious open education programmes: the 2025 NWU Open Educational Resources (OER) Fellowship and the 2025 South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) Digital Humanities OER Champions initiative Both programmes are presented by the UNESCO Chair

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UJ externship sparks inspiration and confidence in language students

8 July 2025 The South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) hosted its third successful externship for the Department of Languages, Cultural Studies and Applied Linguistics (LanCSAL) students from the University of Johannesburg on 12 June 2025. The day-long online engagement was designed to give students practical exposure to

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