Latest updates
60 online book added: 28 September 2024
These 60 children's storybooks were developed for the Nuer Literacy Initiative, a collaboration between Nuer speakers across the globe, the universities of Surrey and Edinburgh, and African Storybook.
Every book can be accessed for free online, using your phone, laptop or tablet. So far, 19,500 free books have been distributed to schools, churches, community groups and refugee camps in South Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda.
New word of the week: 9 March 2021
New word of the week: 1 February 2021
Search capabilities updated: 25 January 2021
We've improved the way you can search Nuer Lexicon. You can now search across all the forms of nouns ands verbs we currently have in the dictionary, as well as common alternative spellings of words.
New word of the week: 25 January 2021
New word of the week: 5 Jan 2021
New word of the week: 25 December 2020
Search interfaces updated: 14 December 2020
We have added two new ways to use nuerlexicon.com.
You can now browse all Nuer and English words on the site using our dictionary pages.
We have started to make some new word lists of themed vocabulary to help learners.
New word of the week: 14 December 2020
New word of the week: 07 December 2020
New words added: 4 December 2020
We've added 28 new words based on your suggestions:
de̱e̱l ‘goat’buɔ̱ɔ̱tlɔac ‘heartwounds’
buɔ̱t ‘wound’
cuer ‘thief (EN)’
cuer ‘food lover (WN)’
diit ‘big, huge’
ɛ ‘is’
gumut ‘owl’
ɣo̱ŋx ‘drunkard, mad person in the street’
ka̱a̱ŋ ‘lie’
kueel ‘thief’
lër ‘prostitute, whore’
lɔc ‘heart’
luk ‘judge’
mal ‘peace’
male ‘hello’
miŋ ‘deaf’
mi̱i̱ŋ ‘deafness’
muc ‘gift’
pul ‘lake, small island’
rɛy ‘inside, within’
riɛk ‘problem’
rue̱e̱c ‘king’
te ‘have’
tɛ̈t ‘canal’
wuɔ̱ɔ̱k ‘arm’
wargak ‘paper, letter’
yi̱ɛɛr ‘container for grain or dura’
New word of the week: 30 November 2020
Join our Facebook group: 16 November 2020
We've created a new Facebook group for the Nuer community to tell us how to make the Nuer Lexicon better.
Join the group at www.facebook.com/groups/nuerlexicon to help us improve the dictionary and add new words and examples.
New word of the week: 16 November 2020
New word of the week: 9 November 2020
New word of the week: 27 October 2020
New words added: 23 October 2020
We've added 49 new words based on your suggestions:
buɔk ‘African Bermudagrass (sp. Cynodon nlemfuensis)’cäŋdäär ‘afternoon’
dääk ‘divide’
di̱r ‘dustbin’
duelgɔ̱ɔ̱rä ‘school’
gääŋ ‘protector’
ɣää ‘yes’
ɣëëy ‘no’
ɣööth ‘exodus’
ja̱ŋ ‘take’
ji̱ɔm ‘winter’
jith ‘scorpion’
ji̱thjiath ‘leaf of tree’
jɔak ‘ghost’
juɔk ‘week’
ka̱r ‘piece of dry fish’
ke̱e̱y ‘border’
kɛɛth ‘rust’
kɛɛth ‘gallbladder’
kɛ̈l ‘one’
kim ‘doctor’
koaŋ ‘wine’
ko̱k ‘fame’
ko̱o̱k ‘trader’
kuaany ‘election’
kuäär mään ‘queen’
kuɛ̈ɛ̈ ‘seed’
li̱i̱m ‘bagger’
lua̱ŋ ‘spoils’
maar ‘relationship’
manpalɛ̈k ‘hen’
mäk ‘invade’
mäy ‘spring’
mur ‘vagina’
no̱r ‘palm tree’
nyär ‘tooth’
nyɔ c ‘flood’
nyuɔ̱n ‘lazy’
ŋua̱l ‘debt’
pal ‘pray’
pöör ‘skull’
rɛ̈ɛ̈th ‘drought’
ri̱ɛk ‘problem’
talaŋ ‘lazy’
tɔ̱t ‘autumn’
thɔc ‘rubbish’
thɔ̱a̱a̱n ‘cheetah’
thuɔk duel ‘door post’
wärnyi̱n ‘window’
New word of the week: 19 October 2020
New word of the week: 12 October 2020
New words added: 9 October 2020
We've added 15 new words based on your suggestions:
ben ‘come’ɣä ‘me’
jɛ ‘him, her’
ji̱ ‘you (singular object)’
ji̱n ‘you (singular subject)’
kɛ ‘them’
kɛn ‘they’
kiɛl ‘cough’
kööŋ ‘competition’
kɔ ‘us (excluding addressee)’
kɔn ‘us (includng addressee)’
kɔn ‘we’
pan ‘yesterday’
yɛ ‘you (plural object)’
yɛn ‘you (plural subject)’
