SWiP Project
The SWiP project makes use of language, data and knowledge technologies to promote language equality among all of South Africa's official languages. The linguistic hegemonic status of English (and to a lesser extent Afrikaans) has resulted in English being the language of learning and teaching which downplays an African epistemology, thus local African languages are commonly under resourced. The acronym"SWiP" describes the three main partners in a national collaboration between SADiLaR, the free encyclopedia Wikipedia and Pan South African Language Board, PanSALB who are working alongside local speech and language communities within Academica, to address language equality using digital technologies, especially Wikipedia. Under apartheid, certain languages were marginalised, including Southern Ndebele language, isiNdebele, Swazi language, Siswati, Tsonga language, Xitsonga and Venda language, Tshivenda. To address the underrepresentation of Indigenous languages of South Africa, So ...
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