---
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 in `kab_en_translation_memory.jsonl` 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`) |

## Usage

```python
from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("boffire/kabyle-english-TM")
print(ds["train"][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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) license.

## Citation

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