Lingua-Connect/English-Giriama-Dataset

🗣️ English-Giriama Parallel Sentence Dataset

This dataset consists of sentence pairs in English and their corresponding translations in Giriama (Kigiryama), a Bantu language spoken primarily in coastal Kenya. It supports machine translation (MT) and other cross-lingual NLP tasks, especially in low-resource language research.

📋 Dataset Structure

Each row in the dataset contains:

• —English Sentence: A sentence in standard English.
• —Giriama Translation: The corresponding sentence translated into Giriama.

Example:

📦 Dataset Details

• —Language Pair: English ↔ Giriama (Kigiryama)
• —Number of Sentence Pairs: 7820
• —Data Sources:
• —The Giriama New Testament corpus (verse-aligned, literary/religious domain).
• —~600 domain-specific sentence pairs focused on agriculture and farming contexts. These include vocabulary and expressions commonly used by field officers, farmers, and agri-extension services in rural Kenya.
• —Format: CSV

🧑‍💻 Intended Use

• —Machine Translation (MT) — English ↔ Giriama.
• —Low-resource language research and fine-tuning.
• —Agricultural tech and rural communication tools.
• —Cross-lingual representation learning.
• —Language preservation and documentation.

🚫 Limitations

• —Religious text data (from the New Testament) may introduce stylistic or archaic tone in parts of the dataset.
• —The dataset may not cover the full spectrum of informal or modern spoken Giriama.
• —Agricultural entries were manually curated and may carry contextual assumptions.

🤝 Citation

If you use this dataset in your research or application, please cite it as:

@misc{english_giriama_dataset,
  title = {English-Giriama Parallel Sentence Dataset},
  author = {Lingua-Connect},
  year = {2025},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/English-Giriama-Dataset}}
}