jamalinu/tarifit-spanish-public-services

Tarifit-Spanish Public Services Corpus

Description

Parallel corpus between Tarifit (Riffian Tamazight) and Spanish, focused on public services vocabulary. Tarifit is a Berber language spoken by approximately 4 million people in the Rif region of northern Morocco and by a significant diaspora in Catalonia, the Netherlands, and Belgium.

This is the first publicly available parallel corpus for the Tarifit-Spanish language pair.

Domains

• saludos — Greetings and farewells (10)
• comunicacio_basica — Basic communication (21)
• orientacio — Urban orientation (3)
• universitat — University services (123)
• allotjament — Housing (12)
• salut — Health services (38)
• biblioteca — Library services (9)
• comerc — Commerce and stationery (24)
• banc — Banking (11)
• esports — Sports services (22)
• correus — Postal services (11)
• telefon — Telephone (17)
• transports — Public transport (23)
• restauracio — Food and restaurants (53)
• lleure — Leisure and socializing (17)

Dataset Structure

Field	Description
id	Unique identifier
text_rif	Source text in Tarifit (Latin script)
tifinagh	Source text in Tifinagh script (when available)
translation_cat	Catalan translation
source	Origin: original, ub_guia
dialect_var	Dialectal variety: nador
domain	Thematic domain
label	Domain label (integer)
type	Entry type: sentence, phrase, vocabulary
subtopic	Subcategory within domain

Language Notes

Tarifit is written here in Latin script following common diaspora usage. The corpus reflects natural code-switching between Tarifit, Arabic loanwords, and French/Spanish borrowings typical of spoken Tarifit in urban contexts.

Source

Based on the Universitat de Barcelona conversational guide (Guia de conversa universitària) and original material created by the author.

How to Use

from datasets import load_dataset
dataset = load_dataset("jamalinu/tarifit-spanish-public-services")

Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite:

@dataset{tarifit_spanish_2026,
  author = {Jamalinu},
  title = {Tarifit-Spanish Public Services Corpus},
  year = {2026},
  publisher = {HuggingFace},
  url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/jamalinu/tarifit-spanish-public-services}
}

License

CC-BY-NC 4.0 — Free to use with attribution for non-commercial purposes. For commercial use, contact the author.

Author

Native Tarifit speaker and NLP researcher. Dialect: Nador region (Rif, Morocco). First published: March 2026.