---
language:
- ber
- fr
- ar
multilinguality:
- multilingual
task_categories:
- translation
- text-generation
pretty_name: amawal
tags:
- amazigh
- tamazight
- berber
- tifinagh
- low-resource-language
- multilingual
license: cc-by-4.0
size_categories:
- 10K<n<100K
---

# ⴰⵎⴰⵡⴰⵍ Amawal

A trilingual Amazigh-French-Arabic lexicon to support AI research for Berber languages.

## Description

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.

### Languages included

- **Amazigh (Tamazight)** [ber]: In Tifinagh script (ⵜⵉⴼⵉⵏⴰⵖ)
- **French** [fr]: French translations
- **Arabic** [ar]: Modern Standard Arabic translations
- **Phonetic**: Latin alphabet transcription

### Data format

Each entry follows this structure:

**Example with French translation:**
```json
{
  "amazigh": "ⴰⴱⵓⵔⴽⴰⵏ",
  "french": "volcan",
  "pronunciation": "aburkan"
}
```

**Example with Arabic translation:**
```json
{
  "amazigh": "ⴽⵍⴽⵍ",
  "french": "",
  "arabic": "بدن",
  "pronunciation": "klkl"
}
```

## Usage

### Loading the dataset

```python
from datasets import load_dataset

dataset = load_dataset("prothmane/amawal-dataset")
print(dataset['train'][0])
```
## Use cases

This dataset can be used for:
- Machine translation systems
- Language models for Amazigh
- Speech recognition tools
- Multilingual embeddings

## License

Released under **Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)**.

You can freely share, adapt, and use commercially, as long as you credit the author.

## Citation

If you use this dataset:

```bibtex
@dataset{tamazight_trilingual_lexicon_2025,
  author       = {Othmane Daif},
  title        = {amawal},
  year         = {2025},
  publisher    = {Hugging Face},
  url          = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/prothmane/amawal-dataset}
}
```
---

**ⵜⴰⵏⵎⵎⵉⵔⵜ (Tanmmirt) - Thank you! 🙏**