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developing chatbots.</p> </div></div></div></div></div><div id="pg-2025-9" class="panel-grid panel-has-style" ><div class="row-inner-text-block panel-row-style panel-row-style-for-2025-9" ><div id="pgc-2025-9-0" class="panel-grid-cell" ><div id="panel-2025-9-0-0" class="so-panel widget widget_media_image panel-first-child panel-last-child" data-index="11" ><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" width="1000" height="500" src="https://languages.oup.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/sex-elimu-app-logo-1000px.jpg" class="image wp-image-507 attachment-full size-full" alt="" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" srcset="https://languages.oup.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/sex-elimu-app-logo-1000px.jpg 1000w, https://languages.oup.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/sex-elimu-app-logo-1000px-300x150.jpg 300w, https://languages.oup.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/sex-elimu-app-logo-1000px-768x384.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px" /></div></div><div id="pgc-2025-9-1" class="panel-grid-cell" ><div id="panel-2025-9-1-0" class="so-panel widget widget_black-studio-tinymce widget_black_studio_tinymce panel-first-child panel-last-child" data-index="12" ><div class="textwidget"><p><span style="font-size: 32px;"><strong>Creating sexual health resources in Kenyan Sign Language</strong></span></p> <p> </p> <p>Sex eLimu is an innovative app providing sexual health information in Kenyan Sign Language. The app enables users to look up sexual health terms and topics, with definitions and explanations given in sign language through video content.</p> <p> </p> <p>It was developed by Hudson Asiema, the co-founder and chief executive of educational start-up Deaf eLimu, who noticed a lack of sexual health resources for young people in Kenya who are deaf or hard of hearing.</p> <p> </p> <p>Hudson accessed the Oxford Dictionaries API to source and deliver definitions of terms for the app’s written and video content, using our language data to power its lookup functionality.</p> <p> </p> <p>The Sex eLimu app equips Kenyan Sign Language signers with access to important information in their language, serving a community that was not catered for by existing language resources.</p> </div></div></div></div></div><div id="pg-2025-10" class="panel-grid panel-has-style" ><div class="row-inner-text-block panel-row-style panel-row-style-for-2025-10" ><div id="pgc-2025-10-0" class="panel-grid-cell" ><div id="panel-2025-10-0-0" class="so-panel widget widget_media_image panel-first-child panel-last-child" data-index="13" ><img decoding="async" width="700" height="259" src="https://languages.oup.com/wp-content/uploads/witmo-facebook-header-700px.jpg" class="image wp-image-2019 attachment-full size-full" alt="What is the meaning of" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" srcset="https://languages.oup.com/wp-content/uploads/witmo-facebook-header-700px.jpg 700w, https://languages.oup.com/wp-content/uploads/witmo-facebook-header-700px-300x111.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" /></div></div><div id="pgc-2025-10-1" class="panel-grid-cell" ><div id="panel-2025-10-1-0" class="so-panel widget widget_black-studio-tinymce widget_black_studio_tinymce panel-first-child panel-last-child" data-index="14" ><div class="textwidget"><p><span style="font-size: 32px;"><strong>Learning English with WITMO</strong></span></p> <p> </p> <p>WITMO, which stands for <em>What is the Meaning Of</em>, is a Facebook chatbot created by developer Sagar Sodah. It uses Oxford Dictionaries API data to allow users to discover definitions, synonyms, antonyms, and example sentences of words, also offering speedy translations into Spanish, Romanian, or Malay.</p> <p> </p> <p>WITMO was initially developed as a personal project out of the developer’s interest to explore the possibilities around chatbots. To his surprise, it was quickly picked up by many people in Thailand, Myanmar, and the Philippines who started using the app to learn English. Sagar realised that part of the population in those regions has limited access to smartphones but better access to Facebook messenger, which works well on feature phones.</p> <p> </p> <p>As WITMO is a Facebook Messenger app, it was the perfect tool to fulfil this need, and its creator tapped into a market niche he had never imagined.</p> </div></div></div></div></div><div id="pg-2025-11" class="panel-grid panel-has-style" ><div class="row-inner-text-block panel-row-style panel-row-style-for-2025-11" ><div id="pgc-2025-11-0" class="panel-grid-cell" ><div id="panel-2025-11-0-0" class="so-panel widget widget_media_image panel-first-child panel-last-child" data-index="15" ><img decoding="async" width="1000" height="750" src="https://languages.oup.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/tartar-setswana-leadership-workshop-group-photo-1000px.jpg" class="image wp-image-504 attachment-full size-full" alt="" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" srcset="https://languages.oup.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/tartar-setswana-leadership-workshop-group-photo-1000px.jpg 1000w, https://languages.oup.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/tartar-setswana-leadership-workshop-group-photo-1000px-300x225.jpg 300w, https://languages.oup.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/tartar-setswana-leadership-workshop-group-photo-1000px-768x576.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px" /></div></div><div id="pgc-2025-11-1" class="panel-grid-cell" ><div id="panel-2025-11-1-0" class="so-panel widget widget_black-studio-tinymce widget_black_studio_tinymce panel-first-child panel-last-child" data-index="16" ><div class="textwidget"><p><span style="font-size: 32px;"><strong>Tatar-Setswana workshop on leadership through language</strong></span></p> <p> </p> <p>In July 2019, our Tatar Language Manager Dr Golshat Safiullina invited our Setswana Language Manager Warona Makafu to share her inspirational story at a workshop on leadership through language for the Leaders’ Biler Forum, part of the Selet Foundation Youth Camps for young people from the Republic of Tatarstan.</p> <p> </p> <p>Warona shared how she realized the value of preserving her native language through her work as our Setswana Language Manager, working with the community to record and recognize its cultural identity and ignite conversations with Setswana speakers from all generations to create a shared Setswana language legacy and accessible resources.</p> <p> </p> <p>Her story prompted questions and discussion from the participants, helping the young people of Tatarstan to understand how embracing their own language and culture, Tartar, could empower them too.</p> <p> </p> <p>Warona said:</p> <p>"<em>I’m so glad that our dictionary allows us to preserve our language in its entirety, all dialects included. How they were spoken and how we speak them now. Anyone coming after our generation can trace themselves to where their language came from and where it is at the time of their life.</em></p> <p><em>Capturing a language is the most important thing any group of people can do and the one facilitating the process is always privileged.</em>"</p> </div></div></div></div></div><div id="pg-2025-12" class="panel-grid panel-has-style" ><div class="row-inner-text-block panel-row-style panel-row-style-for-2025-12" ><div id="pgc-2025-12-0" class="panel-grid-cell" ><div id="panel-2025-12-0-0" class="so-panel widget widget_media_image panel-first-child panel-last-child" data-index="17" ><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1000" height="564" src="https://languages.oup.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/northern-sotho-open-house-video-still-1000px.jpg" class="image wp-image-505 attachment-full size-full" alt="" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" srcset="https://languages.oup.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/northern-sotho-open-house-video-still-1000px.jpg 1000w, https://languages.oup.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/northern-sotho-open-house-video-still-1000px-300x169.jpg 300w, https://languages.oup.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/northern-sotho-open-house-video-still-1000px-768x433.jpg 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px" /></div></div><div id="pgc-2025-12-1" class="panel-grid-cell" ><div id="panel-2025-12-1-0" class="so-panel widget widget_black-studio-tinymce widget_black_studio_tinymce panel-first-child panel-last-child" data-index="18" ><div class="textwidget"><p><span style="font-size: 32px;"><strong>Documenting dialects with the Northern Sotho open-house dictionary</strong></span></p> <p> </p> <p>Matlakala Kganyago, our Northern Sotho Language Manager, invented the concept of the open-house dictionary. She first opened her home to Northern Sotho speakers in 2018 and has since run many events inviting the community in to discuss and share their language knowledge.</p> <p> </p> <p>Passionate about preserving Northern Sotho lexical resources as a legacy for future generations, Matlakala works with her local community in Limpopo, South Africa, to record and translate Northern Sotho content, with a particular focus on documenting its many dialects and variants.</p> <p> </p> <p>Kgabi, a mine employee who attended Matlakala’s first open-house event, shared his contribution:</p> <p> </p> <p>"<em>There are some things we take for granted in life and if we are not careful, they will just fade away. I say so because there is this stone that we mine, the quartz. Most of us don’t know its actual name in our language and it is called 'legakabje'. This type of knowledge can fade away with time if we do not record it somewhere. I thank you for the opportunity you gave me of being part of this event.</em>"</p> </div></div></div></div></div><div id="pg-2025-13" class="panel-grid panel-has-style" ><div class="row-inner-text-block panel-row-style panel-row-style-for-2025-13" ><div id="pgc-2025-13-0" class="panel-grid-cell" ><div id="panel-2025-13-0-0" class="so-panel widget widget_media_image panel-first-child panel-last-child" data-index="19" ><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1000" height="500" src="https://languages.oup.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/urdu-schools-workshop-group-photo-1000px.jpg" class="image wp-image-506 attachment-full size-full" alt="" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" srcset="https://languages.oup.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/urdu-schools-workshop-group-photo-1000px.jpg 1000w, https://languages.oup.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/urdu-schools-workshop-group-photo-1000px-300x150.jpg 300w, https://languages.oup.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/urdu-schools-workshop-group-photo-1000px-768x384.jpg 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px" /></div></div><div id="pgc-2025-13-1" class="panel-grid-cell" ><div id="panel-2025-13-1-0" class="so-panel widget widget_black-studio-tinymce widget_black_studio_tinymce panel-first-child panel-last-child" data-index="20" ><div class="textwidget"><p><span style="font-size: 32px;"><strong>Crowd-sourcing Urdu language content with Islamabad College for Boys</strong></span></p> <p> </p> <p>At Islamabad College for Boys in Pakistan, our Urdu Language Manager Zafar Syed held an interactive workshop with the college’s third and fourth year students to introduce them to our global languages initiative.</p> <p> </p> <p>Zafar shared Oxford Languages’ mission to work in collaboration with local speakers, like the college’s students, to record their language for the development of digital resources in Urdu.</p> <p> </p> <p>The students took part in a content crowd-sourcing session, suggesting new additions to the dictionary and supplying their own examples sentences. They learnt how to submit new words to the <em>Oxford Urdu Dictionary</em> website, marked as a ‘user contribution’, and how such activities are important for documenting Urdu and improving its representation and access online.</p> <p> </p> <p>The college’s principal Dr Rafiq Sandeelvi took great interest in the project, encouraging his students and expressing his hope for the initiative’s ongoing development of Urdu digital resources.</p> </div></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <footer class="site-footer"> <div class="container-fluid"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12 m-i"> <div class="site-footer__top"> <nav class="navbar navbar-expand-md"> <div class="b-socials"> <span class="title">Social</span> <ul id="" class="cnss-social-icon " style="text-align:center;"><li class="cn-fa-twitter" style="display:inline-block;"><a class="" target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/OxLanguages" title="Twitter" style=""><img src="https://languages.oup.com/wp-content/uploads/social-icons-x.png" border="0" width="50" height="50" alt="Twitter" title="Twitter" style="margin:4px;" /></a></li><li class="cn-fa-facebook" style="display:inline-block;"><a class="" target="_blank" href="https://www.facebook.com/OxLanguages/" title="Facebook" style=""><img src="https://prododcorp.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/i-facebook.png" border="0" width="50" height="50" alt="Facebook" title="Facebook" style="margin:4px;" /></a></li><li class="cn-fa-linkedin" style="display:inline-block;"><a class="" target="_blank" href="https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/oxford-languages-oup" title="LinkedIn" style=""><img src="https://prododcorp.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/neon_line_social_circles_50icon_10px_grid-25-512.png" border="0" width="50" height="50" alt="LinkedIn" title="LinkedIn" style="margin:4px;" /></a></li></ul> </div> </nav> <div class="b-logo"> <a href="https://global.oup.com/" target="_blank" class="logo"><img src="https://languages.oup.com/wp-content/themes/twentynineteen_1/images/logo-footer-grey.svg" alt=""></a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-12 m-i"> <div class="site-footer__bottom"> <div class="b-logo"> <a href="/"><img src="https://languages.oup.com/wp-content/themes/twentynineteen_1/images/logo-footer-dark.svg" alt=""></a> <div class="b-copyright"> <p>Copyright © 2025 Oxford University Press. 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