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--- |
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language: |
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- ber |
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- fr |
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- ar |
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multilinguality: |
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- multilingual |
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task_categories: |
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- translation |
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- text-generation |
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pretty_name: amawal |
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tags: |
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- amazigh |
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- tamazight |
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- berber |
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- tifinagh |
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- low-resource-language |
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- multilingual |
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license: cc-by-4.0 |
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size_categories: |
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- 10K<n<100K |
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--- |
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# ⴰⵎⴰⵡⴰⵍ Amawal |
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A trilingual Amazigh-French-Arabic lexicon to support AI research for Berber languages. |
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## Description |
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This dataset brings together Amazigh vocabulary in Tifinagh script (ⵜⵉⴼⵉⵏⴰⵖ) with corresponding French and/or Arabic translations. The goal is to make it easier to develop language technologies for Amazigh, a language spoken by over 30 million people in North Africa but lacking digital resources. |
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### Languages included |
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- **Amazigh (Tamazight)** [ber]: In Tifinagh script (ⵜⵉⴼⵉⵏⴰⵖ) |
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- **French** [fr]: French translations |
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- **Arabic** [ar]: Modern Standard Arabic translations |
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- **Phonetic**: Latin alphabet transcription |
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### Data format |
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Each entry follows this structure: |
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**Example with French translation:** |
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```json |
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{ |
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"amazigh": "ⴰⴱⵓⵔⴽⴰⵏ", |
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"french": "volcan", |
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"pronunciation": "aburkan" |
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} |
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``` |
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**Example with Arabic translation:** |
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```json |
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{ |
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"amazigh": "ⴽⵍⴽⵍ", |
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"french": "", |
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"arabic": "بدن", |
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"pronunciation": "klkl" |
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} |
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``` |
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## Usage |
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### Loading the dataset |
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```python |
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from datasets import load_dataset |
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dataset = load_dataset("prothmane/amawal-dataset") |
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print(dataset['train'][0]) |
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``` |
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## Use cases |
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This dataset can be used for: |
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- Machine translation systems |
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- Language models for Amazigh |
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- Speech recognition tools |
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- Multilingual embeddings |
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## License |
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Released under **Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)**. |
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You can freely share, adapt, and use commercially, as long as you credit the author. |
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## Citation |
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If you use this dataset: |
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```bibtex |
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@dataset{tamazight_trilingual_lexicon_2025, |
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author = {Othmane Daif}, |
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title = {amawal}, |
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year = {2025}, |
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publisher = {Hugging Face}, |
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url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/prothmane/amawal-dataset} |
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} |
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``` |
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--- |
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**ⵜⴰⵏⵎⵎⵉⵔⵜ (Tanmmirt) - Thank you! 🙏** |
