🗣️ English–Kumaoni Translation Dataset (Romanized, 9538 Pairs)

This dataset contains 9538 sentence pairs of English and their corresponding translations in Kumaoni language written in Roman script (Latin characters).
Kumaoni is a low-resource Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Kumaon region of Uttarakhand, India.

📂 Dataset Format

Format: JSONL (newline-delimited JSON)
Encoding: UTF-8
Total entries: 9538
Fields:
- english: Sentence in English
- kumaoni: Kumaoni translation in Roman (Latin) script

📄 Example:

{"english": "give me water.", "kumaoni": "mank paani diyo."}
{"english": "what are you doing?", "kumaoni": "tum ki kar rahe chho?"}

🏔️ About Kumaoni

Kumaoni is a regional language mainly spoken in the Kumaon region of Uttarakhand, India.
Despite having over a million native speakers, it is digitally underrepresented in the field of NLP.
This dataset contributes to preserving and enabling AI systems to work with Kumaoni through:

Romanized scripts (for ease of typing and modeling)
Clean and natural sentence pairs
Practical usage in translation, voice systems, and chatbots

🔍 Use Cases

Fine-tuning translation models on low-resource languages
Evaluating LLMs for English–Kumaoni code-switching
Building regional chatbots or bilingual assistants
Input for TTS (Text-to-Speech) or ASR if paired with audio
RAG pipelines for Kumaoni-language applications

📜 License

CC BY 4.0
You are free to use, modify, and distribute this dataset with proper credit to the original author.

🙏 Acknowledgements

Created and maintained by Sourab Singh Bora
Special focus was given to:

Romanized consistency
Natural daily-use phrases
Clean Unicode formatting

💡 Citation

@dataset{english_kumaoni_roman_2025,
  author       = {Sourab Singh Bora},
  title        = {english-kumaoni_translation_dataset},
  year         = 2025,
  url          = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/sourabsb/english-kumaoni_translation_dataset},
  note         = {Romanized parallel corpus for low-resource translation}
}