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Building the future of Sesotho through the African Wordnet
01 July 2026 The African Wordnet Project demonstrates that preserving and advancing indigenous languages requires contributions from people across many disciplines. Within the Sesotho African Wordnet team, linguists, translators, educators, broadcasters and language activists are working together to ensure that Sesotho remains relevant, accessible and technologically enabled for future generations. Three members of the Sesotho…
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SADiLaR Leaders Appointed to National Task Team for South Africa’s Unified National Language Action Plan
12 June 2026 The South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) proudly congratulates Professor Langa Khumalo, Chief Director and Mr Juan Steyn, Operations Director, on their appointment to the National Task Team Towards a Unified National Language Action Plan by the Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture, Mr Gayton McKenzie. The appointments follow resolutions…
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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. Facilitated by Dr Bianca Peterson,…
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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 in digital spaces and strengthening…
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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 (South African Academy for Science…
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ESCALATOR at the AI4D African Language Lab Workshop
30 March 2026 SADiLaR’s ESCALATOR programme had the privilege of joining a panel at the AI4D African Language Lab Workshop, held at the University of Pretoria on 25 March 2026. The panel discussion, titled “Bridging Research and Reality: The Content Pipeline”, brought together diverse voices committed to making language technology work for under-resourced African languages.…
