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HAT (Verklarende Handwoordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal) (FF Odendal & RH Gouws)
("'n Omvattende verklarende Afrikaanse woordeboek met betekenisomskrywings")
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Afrikaans-Engels/Engels-Afrikaans Woordeboek
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Oxford Afrikaans-Engels English-Afrikaans Skoolwoordeboek School Dictionary "Designed to enable learners to write and speak effectively and competently in their additional language, this up-to-date and easy-to-use dictionary focuses on overcoming learners' most common difficulties."
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Online/ElectronicWAT (Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal)
Online Afrikaans to English and English to Afrikaans dictionary
Online/ElectronicCilubà-French Dictionary A new bilingual Cilubà (Tshiluba) - French dictionary by N.S. Kabuta et al.
Cilubà-Brazilian Portuguese Dictionary A blog/dictionary by Samanta.
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Online/ElectronicSwahili - English Dictionary
Free to use online Swahili - English dictionary, has been expanded and recently updated (2006-10) to include over 15,000 Swahili to English entries, and many more in the English index.
-> Unlike in standard (stem-based) dictionaries, Swahili words can be looked up as they are spoken or written. This dictionary is being created/compiled by Pitta Joffe, Sarah Hillewaert, Gilles-Maurice de Schryver and David Joffe. A 15-million-word electronic Swahili corpus, built by Gilles-Maurice de Schryver and David Joffe, is being used. This work in progress is being compiled using David Joffe's lexicography software TshwaneLex, and is online since 10 May 2004.The Kamusi Project The Internet Living Swahili Dictionary
BooksSouth African Oxford Multilingual Primary Dictionary (Sotho) (OUPSA)
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Online/ElectronicBUKANTSWE: Electronic Sesotho-English dictionary BUKANTSWE is a computer program that can be downloaded and be used as a dictionary between English and Sesotho. Created by Jako Olivier.
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Oxford Bilingual School Dictionary: Northern Sotho and English / Pukuntšu ya Polelopedi ya Sekolo: Sesotho sa Leboa le Seisimane. E gatišitšwe ke Oxford (Gilles-Maurice de Schryver et al.) New (2007), modern Northern Sotho - English bilingual dictionary with many interesting and useful features, such as real usage examples at every entry (mostly corpus-based), most frequent words indicated, detailed part of speech and grammatical information, proper word sense breakdowns etc.
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Popular Northern Sotho dictionary (DJ Prinsloo, BP Sathekge, TJ Kriel) Northern Sotho - English, English - Northern Sotho.
(This remains one of the most useful dictionaries if you are learning Northern Sotho (or are Northern Sotho speaking and learning English).)
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Online/ElectronicOnline Northern Sotho (Sesotho sa Leboa) - English dictionary
New (22 April 2003). Over 24900 Sesotho sa Leboa to English entries.
(This online dictionary is compiled within the framework of Simultaneous Feedback).Pukuntšutlhaloši ya Sesotho sa Leboa ka Inthanete /
Online Explanatory Sesotho sa Leboa Dictionary
New (10 June 2004) online monolingual Northern Sotho dictionary.Linguistics Terminology: Northern Sotho - English
Birds and Trees List: English to Northern Sotho (Flora and Fauna)
BooksSouth African Oxford Multilingual Primary Dictionary (Sotho) (OUPSA)
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BooksSouth African Oxford Multilingual Primary Dictionary (Nguni) (OUPSA)
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Venda Dictionary (Van Warmelo) Venda - English, 490 pages.
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English-Xhosa Dictionary (Arnold Fischer)
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The Greater Dictionary of isiXhosa "A comprehensive trilingual (IsiXhosa, English, Afrikaans) dictionary that promotes multilingualism and indigenous languages was launched on the 22nd of September 2006, at the University of Fort Hare."
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English-Zulu, Zulu-English (CM Doke, D McK Malcolm, JMA Sikakana, BW Vilakazi)
("The most comprehensive English-Zulu/Zulu-English dictionary available. Complete with notes on the new orthography, it is an invaluable reference for students of Zulu, Zulu speaking students of English and linguists working in the Zulu language")
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Online/ElectronicZulu - English / English - Zulu Dictionary Online bilingual isiZulu - English dictionary.
Jason Wolfe's Useful Zulu Medical Dictionary "Important Zulu Medical Words - Their Pronunciation and Translation."
