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Ugandan Languages: Vitality, Resources and Capacity Building


' We celebrate 2019 as the International Year of Indigenous Language "

To honor the Indigenous languages of Uganda we organize a community week with events, lectures and workshops


MAK-crest.jpg Where: Makerere University, 18 – 22 November 2019


'The following events are planned:

Ugandan Language Fair

The fair will host a poster session and small events presenting the work of invited communities and individuals.

Call for participation

If you would like to present a poster or an initiative, or if you work with language development in an academic setting or otherwise, please contact the organizers [1] [2] at Makerere University. We would love to hear from you. If you are a developer of language technology working in Uganda, or on Ugandan languages, please contact us. We would like to promote your work.

Signed up initiatives:


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Dorika Publications was founded by the writer Waalabyeki Magoba. It is committed to producing quality Luganda literature to create a permanent yearning for reading in children and adults.





linguistic technology
Polytext is a small Norwegian software company. It produces linguistic tools

and resources for especially for lesser- resourced languages. '





Workshops and Theme talks

Theme 1

Speech technologies for low resource languages: an introduction

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Laurent Besacier

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Professor Besacier i s a Computer Scientist at the University of Grenoble, France, and Co-chair

and ISCA liaison representative of the Special Interest Group for Under-resourced Languages at ELRA (European Language Resources Association).




Theme 2

Computational language documentation: an introduction

Keynote speaker: Prof. Laurent Besacier


Theme 1 and 2 are accompanied by a Hands-on tutorial on an ASR open source software.


Theme 3

Corpus building for less-resourced languages: the creation of African language resources.

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Dorothee Beermann

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Professor Beermann is a Linguist at the University of Science and Technology, Norway.

She is one of the Co-founders of Polytext and a contributor to SIGUL at ELRA (European Language Resources Association).





Theme 3 is accompanied by a Hands-on tutorial on the creation of annotated text corpora.




Panel discussion

How do we strengthen Uganda’s local languages?

Participants community members, initiative representatives, companies and developers


  1. asiimwea94ATgmail.com
  2. medadiesATgmail.com