Student-led project makes isiXhosa vocabulary easily accessible
Project leader, Carl Marquard presenting isiXhosa.click at AFRILEX 2024.
Cael Marquard, a Computer Science Honours student at UCT, presented isiXhosa.click at the recent Afrilex 2024 conference.
The South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) has published an article about the free, open-source dictionary that allows users to search for a word by simply typing either the English or isiXhosa word in a search bar:
Learning a new language can be fun but also challenging as you try to navigate your way through a wondrous world of novel sounds and words. Life has just become a little easier for isiXhosa learners with isiXhosa.click, a new online dictionary for isiXhosa and English.
Funded partially by the South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), the free, open-source and user-friendly dictionary allows users to search for a word by simply typing either the English or isiXhosa word in a search bar to show live search results. As the user clicks on a word, they can find more information, such as examples and related words. The dictionary currently has 2062 entries.