36.2474, Software: Our Places (mobile app on South African place names)

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LINGUIST List: Vol-36-2474. Fri Aug 22 2025. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 36.2474, Software: Our Places (mobile app on South African place names)

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Date: 22-Aug-2025
From: Chrismi Loth [SASLplacenames at ufs.ac.za]
Subject: Our Places (mobile app on South African place names)


Our Places is a mobile app with which to explore the etymologies of
South African place names and discover place-name signs in South
African Sign Language (SASL). The free version of the app includes 30%
of entries from the Dictionary of Southern African place names (Raper,
Möller & Du Plessis, 2014). SASL place names is provided from our
research corpus. Available for Android on Google Play Store:
https:/play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=za.ac.ufs.ourplaces

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     General Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Lexicography
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): South African Sign Language (sfs)

Language Family(ies): African Deaf Sign Languages
                      Nguni (S.40)
                      Sotho
                      Venda (S.20)



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