Cécile Macaire, Tomáš Pavliček, Alejandro Ciuba, Harshita Diddee, Marek Sarvaš, Santosh Kesiraju
Made available by Alejandro Ciuba, alejandrociuba@gmail.com/pitt.edu
THIS DATA HAS BEEN COLLECTED FROM VARIOUS RESOURCES. THE USE OF THIS DATA IS ONLY FOR ACADEMIC NON-COMMERCIAL PURPOSES.
Small corpus containing a dataset between Tamasheq (TAQ), English (ENG), and French (FR). The data is organized amongst the following directories:
bible-data/: WARNING: DATA CONTAINS HEAVY BIAS! Containsbible-tamasheq.zipandbible-tamahaq.zip(language similar to TAQ).bilingual-dictionary/: Contains files pertaining to our bilingual dictionary extracted from source text*, as well asbilingual-dictionary.zip.parallel-sentences/: Contains files pertaining to our parallel sentences extracted from source text*, as well asparallel-sentences.zip.taq-fr/: Contains files pertaining to our bilingual TAQ-FR dictionary, as well astaq-fr.zip.
bilingual-dictionary/:taq-biling.txt:tamasheq_sing., tamasheq_plural (opt.)
eng-biling.txt:
eng_sing., eng_plural (opt.) / secondary_translation (opt.)
full-biling.txt:
| English Word(s) | Tamasheq Sing. | Tamasheq Plural (opt.) |
|---|---|---|
| parent / ancestor | ămaraw | imarawăn |
parallel-sentences/:
parallel-sents-dialects.txt:
| Dialect (Ša and/or Za) | Tamasheq Sentence | English Translation (word_1/word_2) |
|---|---|---|
| Ša | ma dăr tǝnsed? | How did you sleep? |
| Ša | ma šănšed? | What are you buying/selling? |
| Ša Za | ma tǝkned? | What are you making/repairing? |
NOTE: Another copy parallel-sents.txt exists with the first column removed (no dialectal information).
taq-fr/: Both dictionaries follow the same format, with the TAQ and FR columns switched to reflect filename-order.
taq-fr.txt and fr-taq.txt:
word translated_word
NOTE: Data created via hopping, using English as a middle translated (TAQ->ENG->FR).
Sudlow, D. (2011). The Tamasheq of North-East Burkina Faso. (H. Stroomer, Ed.) (2nd ed., Vol. 1, Ser. Berber Studies). Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.
*Main source is David Sudlow's The Tamasheq of North-East Burkina Faso.