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+---
+language:
+- en
+- nus
+license: cc-by-nc-sa-4.0
+task_categories:
+- translation
+
+tags:
+- conversational-ai
+- chatbot
+- multilingual
+- machine-translation
+- english
+- nuer
+- thok-naath
+- low-resource
+- african-languages
+- language-preservation
+
+pretty_name: English–Nuer (Thok Naath) Conversational Parallel Corpus
+---
+
+# English–Nuer (Thok Naath) Conversational Parallel Corpus
+
+## Overview
+
+The **English–Nuer (Thok Naath) Conversational Parallel Corpus** is a bilingual dataset consisting of aligned conversational sentence pairs in English and Nuer (Thok Naath).
+
+This dataset was created to support research on low-resource African languages, with a particular focus on conversational AI, machine translation, multilingual language models, and language preservation.
+
+As one of the few publicly available conversational datasets for Nuer, it aims to encourage the development of inclusive AI technologies for underrepresented languages.
+
+---
+
+# Languages
+
+- English (`en`)
+- Nuer / Thok Naath (`nus`)
+
+---
+
+# Dataset Description
+
+The corpus contains conversational text pairs covering everyday communication, including:
+
+- Greetings
+- Questions and answers
+- Daily conversations
+- Common expressions
+- Informal dialogue
+- Social interactions
+
+Each record contains aligned English and Nuer sentences suitable for supervised NLP tasks.
+
+---
+
+# Intended Uses
+
+This dataset is intended for:
+
+- Academic research
+- Educational purposes
+- Machine Translation
+- Conversational AI
+- Chatbot development (research only)
+- Large Language Model research
+- Low-resource NLP
+- Language preservation
+- Linguistic analysis
+
+---
+
+# Not Intended For
+
+This dataset may **NOT** be used for:
+
+- Commercial AI products
+- Commercial chatbot services
+- Paid APIs
+- Proprietary language models
+- Commercial translation systems
+- Selling or redistributing the dataset for profit
+- Any commercial use without written permission from the author
+
+If you wish to use this dataset commercially, please contact the author to obtain a separate commercial license.
+
+---
+
+# License
+
+This dataset is licensed under the **Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)**.
+
+You are free to:
+
+- Share
+- Copy
+- Redistribute
+- Adapt
+- Modify
+
+Under the following conditions:
+
+- Attribution must be given.
+- Commercial use is prohibited.
+- Derivative works must be distributed under the same license.
+
+License:
+https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
+
+---
+
+# Citation
+
+If you use this dataset in your research, please cite:
+
+```bibtex
+@dataset{tajnaam2026english_nuer_conversation,
+  author = {Tajnaam},
+  title = {English–Nuer (Thok Naath) Conversational Parallel Corpus},
+  year = {2026},
+  publisher = {Hugging Face},
+  url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/Tajnaam/english_nuer-thok_naath_conversational_parallel_corpus}
+}
+```
+
+---
+
+# Attribution
+
+Please cite this dataset in any publication, thesis, article, or software that uses it.
+
+---
+
+# Ethical Considerations
+
+This dataset is intended to promote the digital preservation and advancement of the Nuer (Thok Naath) language. Users are encouraged to use the data responsibly and respectfully toward the Nuer-speaking community.
+
+---
+
+# Disclaimer
+
+This dataset is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind. The author assumes no responsibility for misuse of the dataset.
+
+---
+
+# Contact
+
+For questions, collaborations, corrections, or commercial licensing inquiries, please contact the author through the Hugging Face repository.