Abstract
South Africa (SA) is one of the few countries in the world that boasts a large number of official languages. Due to the efforts of government and the local research and development (R&D) community (comprising universities, science councils and a few private sector companies) all the official languages are -- to varying degrees -- enabled with regard to human language technology (HLT). We present in this paper the current status of HLTs for a few selected official South African languages, namely isiZulu, Sepedi, Tshivenda and, Xitsonga based on a national HLT audit covering all official languages of South Africa. We discuss the HLT position of the above languages in relation to other official South African languages, and also explore the types of data collections, technology modules and applications currently available in the R&D community for these four languages.
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