VivA-app

The VivA app provides offline access to a selection of Afrikaans dictionaries.

Viva's dictionary portal app (Woordeboekportaal) provides offline access to the following Afrikaans dictionaries:

- Annerlike Afrikaans (Anton Prinsloo's geolectic dictionary)

- Afrikaanse Voëlnaamgroep (An Afrikaans and English list of indigenous and exotic birds)

- Afrikaanse Woordelys en Spelreëls (AWS; Pharos) (only the list of words, list of abbreviations, the list containing geographical names and their derivatives, list of the elements in the periodic table, list of geographical names in the East and list of names of countries with their currencies and ISO codes.)

- CTexT SkryfGoed: Afrikaans spelling checker and thesaurus

- CTexT TransTips (Engels)

- CTexT TransTips (Setswana)

- Department of Arts and Culture's multilingual terminology lists

- Drietalige Wynindustriewoordeboek (Terminology used in the wine industry; in Afrikaans, English and isiXhosa)

- Entrepreneurskapwoordeboek (Arangies & Havenga) (Afrikaans explanatory dictionary of entrepreneurship terminology)

- FAK Noodhulptermlys (Bilingual list of terminology used by paramedics and emergency responders)

- Fisikawoordeboek (Physics dictionary, commissioned by the SAAWK)

- Kuberwoordeboek (Protea Boekhuis) (Afrikaans and English dictionary of cyber terminology)

- Kookkuns-woordeboek (Multilingual list of cooking terminology)

- Nuwe Politieke Woordeboek (Bilingual terms and definitions in political science)

- Paramediese Vakwoordeboek (Bilingual paramedic dictionary, commissioned by the SAAWK)

- Sciwoord Chemiewoordeboek (Chemistry dictionary)

- Statistiekwoordeboek (Bilingual list of statistics terms)

- Sterrekundewoordeboek (Johan de Klerk) (Bilingual list of astronomy terms)

- Tweetalige Voorsetselwoordeboek (Bilingual dictionary of prepositions)

- VivA Gesegdes (More than 250 frequently used Afrikaans idioms)

- Woordeboek van nuttige Afrikaanse kombinasies (Collocation dictionary with set expressions, word groups and collocations)

- Wat Praat Jy? (More than 20,000 idioms and set expressions)

Characteristics:

- Spelling and writing tips

- Voice search (via Google Voice or keyboard search

- Predictive text (words appear as you type)

- Suggestions(for incorrectly spelled words not found in dictionaries)

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