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.
Latest news & events
Coding for the Humanities: R-Programming Workshop at Stellenbosch University
02 June 2026 Twenty participants from the humanities and social sciences attended a R-programming workshop at Stellenbosch University from 12-14 May. The workshop was hosted by SADiLaR’s ESCALATOR Programme in collaboration with their Child Language Development Node (CLDN), housed in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Stellenbosch University.
South African Sign Language Dissemination Event: Promoting Inclusion in Digital Spaces
Media Release: 15 May 2026 The South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), in collaboration with its Child Language Development node at Stellenbosch University, will host a South African Sign Language (SASL) dissemination event on 29 May 2026, aimed at advancing the inclusion of the South African deaf community
Strengthening Speech Corpus Development Skills at the University of Limpopo
14 May 2026 From 21-23 April 2026, ESCALATOR and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) facilitated a three-day workshop at the University of Limpopo, bringing together participants from Humanities and Computer Science backgrounds to explore speech corpus development, Digital Humanities (DH), and language resource creation for South African