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boffire/timucuha-kabyle-tales

Timucuha Trilingual Corpus A parallel corpus of Kabyle (Tamazight) folk tales with French and English translations. Source The original Kabyle tales were collected and digitized by the Association Culturelle Numidya. This dataset is derived from their Timucuha project, which preserves and promotes Kabyle oral tradition. Website: https://timucuha.numidya.net/ Organization: Association Culturelle Numidya Dataset Description Property Value… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/boffire/timucuha-kabyle-tales.

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Timucuha Trilingual Corpus

A parallel corpus of Kabyle (Tamazight) folk tales with French and English translations.

Source

The original Kabyle tales were collected and digitized by the [Association Culturelle Numidya](https://timucuha.numidya.net/). This dataset is derived from their Timucuha project, which preserves and promotes Kabyle oral tradition.

—Website: https://timucuha.numidya.net/
—Organization: Association Culturelle Numidya

Dataset Description

Property	Value
Languages	Kabyle (`kab`), French (`fra`), English (`eng`)
Type	Parallel text (sentence/segment aligned)
Total examples	920
Train split	874
Validation split	46

Data Fields

Field	Type	Description
`kabyle`	string	Original Kabyle text
`french`	string	French translation
`english`	string	English translation

English translations were not made by human translation but by using Gemini 3.5 Flash. Only Kabyle and french sentences were made by humans.

Splits

—train.jsonl: 874 examples
—validation.jsonl: 46 examples

Usage

Load with HuggingFace `datasets`

python

from datasets import load_dataset

# From the Hub
ds = load_dataset("bof/timucuha-trilingual-corpus")

# Or from local JSONL
ds = load_dataset("json", data_files={
    "train": "train.jsonl",
    "validation": "validation.jsonl"
})
print(ds["train"][0])

Raw JSONL format

Each line is a JSON object:

json

{"kabyle":"Taqcict-nni yellan sufella...","french":"La fille sur l'arbre...","english":"The girl up in the tree..."}

Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite the original source:

bibtex

@misc{timucuha2026,
  title={Timucuha: Kabyle Folk Tales},
  author={Association Culturelle Numidya},
  year={2026},
  howpublished={\url{https://timucuha.numidya.net/}},
  note={Accessed: 2026-05-30}
}

License

This dataset is released under CC BY-NC 4.0 (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). Please verify the exact license terms with Association Culturelle Numidya before commercial use.

Acknowledgements

—Association Culturelle Numidya for collecting, preserving, and sharing the Kabyle tales.
—The translators who provided the French version.