SomaliDatasets/maay-maxaa-translation

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.