Kabyle language
Collection
This is about kabyle language resources. • 33 items • Updated
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{
"en": "When did you graduate?",
"kab": "Melmi i d-tewwimt igerdasen-nkent?"
} |
{
"en": "Tom is muttering.",
"kab": "Tom yesmermug."
} |
{
"en": "We have to defend our country at any cost.",
"kab": "Ilaq ad nwet ɣef tmurt-nneɣ akken yebɣu yewɛer lḥal."
} |
{
"en": "I've worked all my life.",
"kab": "Tudert-iw akk nekk d axeddim."
} |
{
"en": "My brothers irritated me.",
"kab": "Sserfan-iyi watmaten-iw."
} |
{
"en": "We heard what sounded like gunshots.",
"kab": "Nesla i wissen acu akken icuban ɣer lewjeh."
} |
{
"en": "Some believe in God, but others do not.",
"kab": "Kra ttamnen s Ṛebbi, wiyaḍ xaṭi."
} |
{
"en": "Which leg hurts?",
"kab": "Anwa aḍaṛ i yettaqṛaḥen?"
} |
{
"en": "We meet at a time of tension between the United States and Muslims around the world – tension rooted in historical forces that go beyond any current policy debate.",
"kab": "Nemlal-d deg yiwet n teswiɛt ideg tuɣ teẓmek gar Marikan d imselmen - teẓmek ɣef lǧal n kra yiɣallen imazrayen ur neqqim kan deg uska... |
{
"en": "I don't believe such things exist.",
"kab": "Ur cukkeɣ ara ma llant tɣawsiwin am tidak."
} |
{
"en": "I feel like having some pizza tonight.",
"kab": "Tenfeḥ-iyi-d iḍ-a ɣer lpizza."
} |
{
"en": "I wonder where the third one is.",
"kab": "Wissen anida-tt tis tlata."
} |
{
"en": "Approach! The time has come... one of us must die.",
"kab": "Aẓ-d ɣer da! Yewweḍ-d lawan... yiwen seg-neɣ ilaq ad yemmet."
} |
{
"en": "Strawberries are made into jam.",
"kab": "Nxeddem kunfitur s tefrizin."
} |
{
"en": "When are you going back to your own country?",
"kab": "Melmi ara tuɣaleḍ ɣer tmurt-ik?"
} |
{
"en": "Let Tom do it.",
"kab": "Ǧǧet Tom ad yexdem ayen-nni."
} |
{
"en": "A flight attendant was rescued from the wreckage of the passenger plane.",
"kab": "Yettwasellek-d yiwen seg ixeddamen n daxel seg iceqfan usafag usiweḍ."
} |
{
"en": "That's a beautiful photo.",
"kab": "Ta d tugna icebḥen."
} |
{
"en": "The girls won.",
"kab": "Rebḥent teqcicin-nni."
} |
{
"en": "The dog attacked me.",
"kab": "Yemmeɣ-d uqjun fell-i."
} |
{
"en": "Tom straightened his glasses.",
"kab": "Iṣeggem Tom nnwaḍeṛ-is."
} |
{
"en": "It's dead.",
"kab": "Yemmut."
} |
{
"en": "We'll help you.",
"kab": "Ad k-nɛiwen."
} |
{
"en": "The dishes never did wind up getting put away.",
"kab": "Ɣer tagara yiwen ur yebriz ṭṭabla-nni seg iqbac."
} |
{
"en": "He's fresh out of college.",
"kab": "Akken i d-ifukk seg iɣerbaz-nni."
} |
{
"en": "She's pretty scared, isn't she?",
"kab": "Tugad aṭas, naɣ ?"
} |
{
"en": "Act your age.",
"kab": "Ddu ɣef leḥsab n leɛmeṛ-ik."
} |
{
"en": "Here she is!",
"kab": "Attan !"
} |
{
"en": "I should be with you.",
"kab": "Ilaq ad iliɣ yid-k."
} |
{
"en": "I wish them luck.",
"kab": "Ssarameɣ-asen afud igerrzen."
} |
{
"en": "Half of the pupils are absent.",
"kab": "Azgen inelmaden i ur d-nusi."
} |
{
"en": "Love sucks.",
"kab": "Tayri tettfuḥ."
} |
{
"en": "You can at least thank me.",
"kab": "Tzemreḍ xersum ad iyi-d-tiniḍ ṣaḥḥit."
} |
{
"en": "Bye for now.",
"kab": "Ǧǧiɣ-k deg talwit."
} |
{
"en": "Did you say \"thirty euros\"?",
"kab": "Tenniḍ-d « tlatin n wuṛuten » ?"
} |
{
"en": "I forgot your number.",
"kab": "Ttuɣ uṭṭun-inem."
} |
{
"en": "Where can I study French?",
"kab": "Anda i zemreɣ ad ɣreɣ Tafransist?"
} |
{
"en": "I know no one here.",
"kab": "Ur yelli win ssneɣ dagi."
} |
{
"en": "They want to be with you.",
"kab": "Bɣan ad ilin yid-wen."
} |
{
"en": "I am working with you.",
"kab": "La xeddmeɣ yid-wen."
} |
{
"en": "They stayed at my side.",
"kab": "Bedden-d ɣur-i."
} |
{
"en": "Your days are numbered.",
"kab": "Ttwaḥesben wussan-im."
} |
{
"en": "It doesn't make any sense.",
"kab": "Lmeɛna ur telli deg aya."
} |
{
"en": "There must be a sustained effort to listen to each other; to learn from each other; to respect one another; and to seek common ground.",
"kab": "Ilaq ad yili wussis ur nḥebbes akken yal wa ad iḥess i wa, yal wa ad yelmed sɣur wayeḍ ; akken ad tili temqidra gar-aneɣ u ad nadit annar yesdukulen."
} |
{
"en": "When I was young I wasted too much time.",
"kab": "Aṭas i ḍeggreɣ lweqt-iw asmi meẓẓiyeɣ."
} |
{
"en": "He's going to pick up the food.",
"kab": "Ad yejmeɛ taliččit-nni."
} |
{
"en": "I must have misplaced it.",
"kab": "Ahat iruḥ-iyi."
} |
{
"en": "She might know the answer.",
"kab": "Yezmer lḥal ad tili tessen tiririt."
} |
{
"en": "What does this have to do with me?",
"kab": "D acu i y-icqan nekkini ?"
} |
{
"en": "We are only Kabyles.",
"kab": "Nekkenti d tiqbayliyin kan i nella."
} |
{
"en": "Where do you dwell?",
"kab": "Anida i tzedɣeḍ ?"
} |
{
"en": "I know you were born in Boston.",
"kab": "Ẓriɣ belli tluleḍ di Boston."
} |
{
"en": "Wait for him here.",
"kab": "Rǧu-t da."
} |
{
"en": "How long has Tom known Mary?",
"kab": "Acḥal aya segmi i yessen Tom Mary?"
} |
{
"en": "Now everything's OK.",
"kab": "Tura kullec yelha."
} |
{
"en": "I'm going to put them in a room and let them battle it out.",
"kab": "Ad ten-greɣ deg texxamt u ad ten-ǧǧeɣ ad nnaɣen fell-as."
} |
{
"en": "Tom, what are you doing?",
"kab": "D acu i txeddmeḍ a tom ?"
} |
{
"en": "I have not yet issued the card for her.",
"kab": "Urɛad i as-ssufɣeɣ lkarṭa."
} |
{
"en": "I'll come help you.",
"kab": "Ad d-asaɣ ad kem-ɛiwneɣ."
} |
{
"en": "They ambushed me.",
"kab": "Sɣimen-iyi-d."
} |
{
"en": "Be careful.",
"kab": "Ḥader iman-im!"
} |
{
"en": "AI means Artificial Intelligence.",
"kab": "AI anamek-ines d Tigzi Taragmawant."
} |
{
"en": "This is the same watch that I lost a week ago.",
"kab": "Am temrilt-agi i sruḥeɣ azal n imalas aya."
} |
{
"en": "Why don't you go to Tom's house?",
"kab": "Ayɣer ur tebɣiḍ ara ad tṛuḥeḍ ɣer wexxam n Tom?"
} |
{
"en": "Tom didn't tell Mary.",
"kab": "Tom ur yenni ara i Mary."
} |
{
"en": "Is there a letter for me?",
"kab": "Ur sɛiɣ ara din kra n tebrat?"
} |
{
"en": "Tom hopes to see you in October.",
"kab": "Tom yessaram ad k-iwali deg Tubeṛ."
} |
{
"en": "You could be a little nicer to your brother.",
"kab": "Ili-k cwiṭ d abaḥan ɣer gma-k."
} |
{
"en": "They say that he's still alive.",
"kab": "Nnant-d mazal-it yedder."
} |
{
"en": "Are you busy?",
"kab": "Ur testufam ara?"
} |
{
"en": "I still do that.",
"kab": "Xeddmeɣ aya yal ass."
} |
{
"en": "Is this a fair agreement?",
"kab": "D amtawa uɣdim ?"
} |
{
"en": "I'd prefer to stay at home.",
"kab": "Smenyifeɣ ad qqimeɣ deg uxxam."
} |
{
"en": "I have said my word.",
"kab": "Awal-iw nniɣ-t-id."
} |
{
"en": "You may do whatever you want to do.",
"kab": "Tzemreḍ ad tgeḍ ayen i m-yehwan."
} |
{
"en": "Good for you!",
"kab": "Am sseɛd-nwen!"
} |
{
"en": "I haven't learned to write in Kabyle.",
"kab": "Ur lmideɣ ara tira s teqbaylit."
} |
{
"en": "I don't know what that animal is called.",
"kab": "Ur ssineɣ ara isem-is uɣersiw-a."
} |
{
"en": "The bite of this spider causes intense pain.",
"kab": "Tuqqsa n tisist-a tettqerriḥ mliḥ."
} |
{
"en": "The battle goes on!",
"kab": "Yettkemmil umennuɣ !"
} |
{
"en": "I'm going to drink a glass of milk before I go to bed.",
"kab": "Ad ruḥeɣ ad sweɣ lkas uyefki qbel ad ɛeddiɣ ɣer wusu."
} |
{
"en": "She wants to kiss him.",
"kab": "Tebɣa ad t-teḥmec."
} |
{
"en": "It's not a good translation.",
"kab": "Mačči d tasuqilt yelhan."
} |
{
"en": "Name a Christmas song you never hear on the radio.",
"kab": "Af-d tizlit n Massaylal laɛmeṛ tesliḍ deg ṛṛadyu."
} |
{
"en": "Information can be the theme of a text.",
"kab": "Isallen zemren ad ilin d asentel n uḍris."
} |
{
"en": "You're not as smart as me.",
"kab": "Ur teḥṛiceḍ ara am nekk."
} |
{
"en": "Were it not for your help, I could never succeed.",
"kab": "Lukan mačči d kunnemti, ur ssawaḍeɣ ara."
} |
{
"en": "Does anyone want to go up?",
"kab": "Yella win yebɣan ad yali?"
} |
{
"en": "We must see the good side of things.",
"kab": "Ilaq ad iẓer yiwen ayen yelhan deg lumuṛ."
} |
{
"en": "Why did you come here?",
"kab": "Ayɣer i d-tusiḍ ɣer da?"
} |
{
"en": "My father is coming.",
"kab": "Ha-t-aya baba."
} |
{
"en": "The light is out.",
"kab": "Texsi tafat."
} |
{
"en": "I'd be willing to pay you.",
"kab": "Ur tteɛdazeɣ ara i lexlaṣ."
} |
{
"en": "I just have to make a call.",
"kab": "Ilaq-iyi kan ad ssiwleɣ."
} |
{
"en": "Put on your hat.",
"kab": "Cudd acapun-ik!"
} |
{
"en": "He slipped on the snow and sprained his foot.",
"kab": "Yecceg deg udfel, yelleɣẓam uḍar-is."
} |
{
"en": "I think that Tom has a plan.",
"kab": "Waqil yesɛa Tom aɣawas."
} |
{
"en": "We're Canadians.",
"kab": "Nekkni d Ikanadiyen."
} |
{
"en": "My father's hair has become white.",
"kab": "Acebbub n baba yuɣal d acebḥan."
} |
{
"en": "Is he leaving or is he staying?",
"kab": "Ad iruḥ neɣ ad yeqqim?"
} |
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Tatoeba English-Kabyle Parallel Corpus
A cleaned and aligned English-Kabyle parallel corpus extracted from Tatoeba, with both direct en↔kab links and indirect kab→fra→en links.
Statistics
| Split | Pairs |
|---|---|
| train | 240,056 |
| dev | 2,449 |
| test | 2,449 |
| Total | 244,954 |
Source
- Tatoeba direct
en↔kablinks - Indirect
kab→fra→enlinks (Kabyle linked to French, French linked to English)
Cleaning Pipeline
Character standardization: Fixed common character encoding errors:
- Greek epsilon
ε(U+03B5) → Latin open eɛ(U+025B) - Greek capital sigma
Σ(U+03A3) → Latin capital open EƐ(U+0190) - Greek capital gamma
Γ(U+0393) → Latin capital gammaƔ(U+0194) - Greek small gamma
γ(U+03B3) → Latin small gammaɣ(U+0263) - Cyrillic reversed ze
Ԑ(U+0510) → Latin capital open EƐ - Romanian/Turkish t-cedilla
ţ→ Kabyle geminatet - Turkish g-breve
ğ→ Kabyle g-caronǧ - Normalized no-break spaces, zero-width spaces, non-breaking hyphens
- Greek epsilon
GlotLID v3 filtering: Language identification using GlotLID v3 (fasttext model
model_v3.bin).- Retained only sentences predicted as
kab_Latnwith high confidence - Retention rate: 245,247 / 245,747 = 99.80%
- Average confidence: 0.9990
- Dropped: 543 sentences predicted as other languages (eng_Latn, tur_Latn, ita_Latn, deu_Latn, cat_Latn, shi_Latn, etc.)
- Retained only sentences predicted as
Exact deduplication: Removed 4,440 duplicate
(en, kab)pairsQuality filtering:
- Length filter: dropped pairs where either side < 3 chars or > 300 chars
- Ratio filter: dropped pairs with length ratio > 5×
- Removed empty, punctuation-only, and identical-sides pairs
Format
from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("boffire/tatoeba-en-kab")
# Example:
# ds["train"][0] →
# {
# "translation": {
# "en": "When did you graduate?",
# "kab": "Melmi i d-tewwimt igerdasen-nkent?"
# }
# }
CLDR Kabyle Alphabet Compliance
The corpus is filtered to use only characters from the Unicode CLDR kab locale main exemplar set:
- Lowercase:
a b c č d ḍ e ɛ f g ǧ ɣ h ḥ i j k l m n p q r ṛ s ṣ t ṭ u w x y z ẓ - Uppercase:
A B C Č D Ḍ E Ɛ F G Ǧ Ɣ H Ḥ I J K L M N P Q R Ṛ S Ṣ T Ṭ U W X Y Z Ẓ - Auxiliary (loanwords):
o v
License
CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain) — same as Tatoeba source data.
Citation
If you use this dataset, please cite Tatoeba:
@misc{tatoeba,
title = {Tatoeba: Collection of sentences and translations},
howpublished = {\url{https://tatoeba.org}},
}
Changelog
- 2026-07-08: Initial release (v1.0)
- 244,954 aligned EN-KAB pairs
- Extracted from Tatoeba weekly exports
- Cleaned with GlotLID v3 filtering and character standardization
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