Burtinsaw/avar-turkish-parallel

Avar-Turkish Parallel Corpus

The first publicly available parallel corpus for the Avar language (МагIарул мацI), created through evolutionary data generation.

Dataset Description

This dataset contains Avar-Turkish parallel sentence pairs, generated using a novel genetic algorithm approach that evolves training data from a small seed corpus.

Sources

• MagaruLaw.com bilingual dictionary
• Glosbe online dictionary
• Avar Wikipedia (av.wikipedia.org)
• Evolutionary data generation (genetic algorithms)

Structure

{
  "av": "Салам",
  "tr": "Merhaba",
  "source": "seed",
  "quality": 1.0
}

Field	Description
av	Avar text (Cyrillic script)
tr	Turkish translation
source	Origin: seed, evolved, manual
quality	Quality score 0.0-1.0

About the Avar Language

Name	Avar (МагIарул мацI)
Family	Northeast Caucasian (Nakh-Dagestanian)
Speakers	~800,000
Region	Dagestan (Russia), Turkey, Europe
UNESCO Status	Definitely Endangered

Status

🚧 Under active development — dataset collection in progress. Check back soon or follow this repo for updates.

Links

• Code: github.com/Burtinsaw/AvarNLP
• Model: Burtinsaw/avarnlp-nllb-600m
• Project: MagaruLaw.com

Citation

@software{avarnlp2026,
  title     = {AvarNLP: Self-Evolving AI for the Endangered Avar Language},
  author    = {Arif Akgun},
  url       = {https://github.com/Burtinsaw/AvarNLP},
  year      = {2026},
  license   = {MIT}
}