Datasets:

taqbaylit
/

kabyle-english-TM

language:
  - kab
  - en
license: cc-by-4.0
task_categories:
  - translation
pretty_name: Kabyle–English Translation Memory
size_categories:
  - 100K<n<1M
tags:
  - translation-memory
  - kabyle
  - taqbaylit
  - tamazight
  - tamaziɣt
  - berber
  - low-resource
  - weblate

Kabyle–English Translation Memory

A bilingual translation memory containing 121,725 sentence pairs in Kabyle (kab) and English (en), built from open-source software localisation data aggregated through an automated pipeline.

Dataset structure

Each record contains the following fields:

Field	Type	Description
`source`	string	Source segment (English)
`source_lang`	string	Always `"en"`
`target`	string	Target segment (Kabyle)
`target_lang`	string	Always `"kab"`
`origin`	string	Provenance tag (`auto-pipeline`)

Files

kab_en_translation_memory.parquet — Parquet format (recommended, viewer-compatible)

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("boffire/kabyle-english-TM", split="train")
print(ds[0])

Provenance

All pairs were collected via an automated pipeline (auto-pipeline) sourcing translations from open-source software localisation projects (GNOME, KDE, LibreOffice, etc.).

About Kabyle

Kabyle (Taqbaylit) is a Berber / Tamazight language spoken primarily in the Kabylia region of Algeria. It is a low-resource language and this dataset is intended to support NLP research and MT system development for Kabyle.

License

This dataset is released under the cc-by-4.0 license.

Citation

@misc{kab_en_tm_2026,
  title  = {Kabyle--English Translation Memory},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/boffire/kabyle-english-TM},
  license= {cc-by-4.0}
}