The African dictionary, free to read
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the African dictionary.
Ozituma holds 34,052 words across five African languages — Igbo, Mandinka, Wolof, Yoruba and Urhobo — with 39,101 meanings, 46,190 recordings and 41,672 examples. Twenty-one more languages are listed and waiting for the work to reach them. Free to read, with no account, no paywall and no advertising.
More words, and more languages.
A gift pays for the hosting that answers every lookup, the storage for the audio, and the editors who check each entry by hand — and it pays for the fieldwork that brings the next language in. Alongside the words sit 2,889 personal names, and those are growing too.
African languages are not short of speakers. They are short of records.
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