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  # 🗣️ English-Giriama Parallel Sentence Dataset
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  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.
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  ## 📦 Dataset Details
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  - **Language Pair**: English ↔ Giriama (Kigiryama)
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- - **Number of Sentence Pairs**: _[insert number]_
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  - **Data Sources**:
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  - The **Giriama New Testament corpus** (verse-aligned, literary/religious domain).
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  - ~**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.
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  author = {Lingua-Connect},
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  year = {2025},
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  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/English-Giriama-Dataset}}
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+ ---
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+ license: cc-by-4.0
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+ task_categories:
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+ - translation
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+ language:
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+ - en
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+ - nys
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+ tags:
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+ - machine-translation
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+ - low-resource
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+ - african-languages
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+ - English
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+ - Giriama
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+ - agriculture
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+ - bible
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+ - parallel-corpus
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+ pretty_name: English-Giriama Parallel Sentence Dataset
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+ size_categories:
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+ - 1K<n<10K
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+ ---
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  # 🗣️ English-Giriama Parallel Sentence Dataset
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  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.
 
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  ## 📦 Dataset Details
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  - **Language Pair**: English ↔ Giriama (Kigiryama)
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+ - **Number of Sentence Pairs**: _7820_
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  - **Data Sources**:
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  - The **Giriama New Testament corpus** (verse-aligned, literary/religious domain).
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  - ~**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.
 
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  author = {Lingua-Connect},
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  year = {2025},
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  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/English-Giriama-Dataset}}
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+ }