Africanlanguages.com Website Review

mostly only the South African languages are covered, as well as Kiswahili and Cilubà. It is estimated that there are between 2000 and 3000 languages spoken on the African continent, with possibly as many as 8000 dialects. African languages are divided into four major South African languages During Apartheid, South Africa had 2 official languages, English and Afrikaans. After Apartheid officially ended in 1994, the new constitution gave official status to 11 languages; English, Afrikaans, and 9 indigenous African languages. English is the only one of the official South African languages which is not indigenous. SOTHO: Wondering where some of those strange new difficult to pronounce place names come from, or what some of the other African place names mean? TshwaneLex is a professional commercial software application for the compilation of dictionaries. TshwaneLex supports Unicode throughout, allowing it to handle virtually all of the world's languages, and includes features such as immediate article preview, customisable DTD, automatic cross-reference tracking, automated lemma reversal, online and electronic dictionary modules, export to MS Word format, integrated Corpus Query System, and teamwork (network) support. TshwaneLex contains many features designed to optimize the process of compiling dictionaries for both lexicography teams and individual compilers, and to as*ist dictionary compilers in producing more consistent, quality dictionaries. TshwaneLex includes customizations for African languages. 12 NOVEMBER 2007: Hot off the press, an interesting new Northern Sotho - English dictionary 12 OCTOBER 2004: Birds and Trees List: English - Northern Sotho:     Birds and Trees List: English - Northern Sotho 10 JUNE 2004: New Explanatory (Monolingual) Sesotho sa Leboa Dictionary: