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
Advancing AI for African Languages at the LLMs Symposium and Workshop
9 September 2026 The conversation around the future of Artificial Intelligence and African languages took centre stage at the Large Language Models (LLMs) symposium held on 31 August 2026 and workshop from 1-4 September 2026, hosted by the Telkom Centre of Excellence in ICT4D at the University of Fort Hare.
Building resilient economies Through language, technology and opportunity: Mmasibidi Setaka-Bapela’s journey
31 August 2026 The growth of African languages in the digital age depends not only on technology, but also on the people developing the resources, conducting the research and creating new opportunities within the field. Among them is Mmasibidi Setaka-Bapela, a Digital Humanities Researcher working primarily on Sesotho, whose eight-year
DH-IGNITE: Connect. Learn. Grow.
28 August 2026 On the 24th of August 2026, the South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) brought together researchers, academics and digital humanities enthusiasts for a powerful one-day DH-IGNITE workshop at Birchwood Hotel. The workshop explored the growing intersection of digital humanities, computational social sciences, technology and indigenous