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
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
SADiLaR’s HESSP lead receives prestigious Jacques van der Elst Prize for 2025
28 April 2026 Prof. Tobie van Dyk, an applied linguist from North-West University and leader of the Higher Education Sector Support Programme (HESSP) in the South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), has been awarded the Jacques van der Elst Prize by the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns