Datasets:

SomaliDatasets
/

maay-maxaa-translation

language:
  - so
license: cc-by-4.0
task_categories:
  - translation
pretty_name: Maay ↔ Maxaa Somali Parallel Translation Corpus
configs:
  - config_name: default
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/train.jsonl
    default: true
dataset_info:
  features:
    - name: source
      dtype: string
    - name: target
      dtype: string
    - name: source_lang
      dtype: string
    - name: target_lang
      dtype: string
  splits:
    - name: train
    - name: validation
    - name: test

Maay ↔ Maxaa Somali Parallel Translation Corpus

Official parallel dataset for Maay (Maay Maay) and Maxaa-tiri (Standard Somali) dialects, collected and curated by the community via MaayMaxaa DataHub.

📊 Dataset Statistics

Metric	Value
Total Sentences	8
Maay → Maxaa	4
Maxaa → Maay	4
Avg Source Length	16 chars
Avg Target Length	16 chars
Version	0.1.0

🌐 Languages & Dialects

Maay (Maay Maay): Southern Somali language/dialect spoken across central and southern Somalia.
Maxaa-tiri (Standard Somali): Official written standard Somali dialect.

🚀 Quickstart (Python)

from datasets import load_dataset

# Load dataset from Hugging Face Hub
dataset = load_dataset("SomaliDatasets/maay-maxaa-translation")

# Inspect train split
print(dataset["train"][0])
# {'source': '...', 'target': '...', 'source_lang': 'maay', 'target_lang': 'maxaa'}

📁 Schema & Fields

source: Source text in original dialect.
target: Translated target text.
source_lang: Language code (maay or maxaa).
target_lang: Language code (maay or maxaa).

📜 License

This dataset is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0) license for research, model training, and open development of Somali NLP.