README.md

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license: cc-by-nc-4.0
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Homepage: https://www.statmt.org/wmt22/large-scale-multilingual-translation-task.html

The dataset contains 248 language pairs.

### Full list of languages
#### Focus languages

| Language | Code |
| -------- | ---- |
| Afrikaans | afr |
| Amharic | amh |
| Chichewa | nya |
| Nigerian Fulfulde | fuv |
| Hausa | hau |
| Igbo | ibo |
| Kamba | kam |
| Kinyarwanda | kin |
| Lingala | lin |
| Luganda | lug |
| Luo | luo |
| Northern Sotho | nso |
| Oroma | orm |
| Shona | sna |
| Somali | som |
| Swahili | swh |
| Swati | ssw |
| Tswana | tsn | 
| Umbundu | umb |
| Wolof | wol |
| Xhosa | xho |
| Xitsonga | tso |
| Yoruba | yor |
| Zulu | zul |

#### Colonial linguae francae
English - eng, French - fra

### Metadata

The metadata for how this dataset was created can be found at https://github.com/facebookresearch/LASER/tree/main/data/wmt22_african.

### Sentence counts

Columns are:
source_sentence target_sentence laser_score source_sentence_lid target_sentence_lid
where lid is language classification probability

Here are the sentence counts for each pair:
1621007	afr-eng 
1172757	afr-som 
497739	amh-eng
1888196	amh-fra
566422	amh-nya
89763	amh-orm
844829	amh-sna
491233	amh-som
52337	amh-ssw
1013477	amh-swh
257342	amh-tsn
231190	amh-tso
99902	amh-umb
508311	amh-xho
399634	amh-yor
834986	amh-zul
1372999	eng-fuv
2309758	eng-hau
172973	eng-ibo
1656141	eng-kam
9732858	eng-kin
2890688	eng-lin
3450573	eng-lug
2767100	eng-luo
3043677	eng-nso
1548650	eng-nya
2793755	eng-orm
8782707	eng-sna
576601	eng-som
165712	eng-ssw
23358739	eng-swh
5931529	eng-tsn
630860	eng-tso
302901	eng-umb
95678	eng-wol
8690985	eng-xho
1455571	eng-yor
3862020	eng-zul
372003	fra-hau
630593	fra-ibo
198309	fra-kam
1289491	fra-kin
347026	fra-lin
377017	fra-lug
295465	fra-luo
321118	fra-nso
1170250	fra-nya
319649	fra-orm
1256559	fra-som
119523	fra-ssw
2607867	fra-swh
630801	fra-tsn
440861	fra-tso
236624	fra-umb
189659	fra-wol
1092123	fra-xho
1760905	fra-zul
227958	fuv-hau
89652	fuv-ibo
13571	fuv-kam
192596	fuv-kin
79341	fuv-lug
50756	fuv-luo
42429	fuv-nso
189176	fuv-nya
67398	fuv-orm
106809	fuv-sna
203640	fuv-som
19283	fuv-ssw
275428	fuv-swh
74068	fuv-tsn
55015	fuv-tso
27888	fuv-umb
138286	fuv-xho
331301	fuv-yor
150846	fuv-zul
247694	hau-ibo
90033	hau-kam
317291	hau-kin
169056	hau-lug
152246	hau-luo
158432	hau-nso
1141968	hau-nya
101928	hau-orm
780160	hau-sna
490683	hau-som
73076	hau-ssw
893732	hau-swh
265892	hau-tsn
213552	hau-tso
111124	hau-umb
596312	hau-xho
762819	hau-yor
796053	hau-zul
33966	ibo-kam
154467	ibo-kin
91272	ibo-lug
71387	ibo-luo
81767	ibo-nso
486357	ibo-nya
52249	ibo-orm
444070	ibo-sna
337727	ibo-som
36426	ibo-ssw
479101	ibo-swh
131142	ibo-tsn
99214	ibo-tso
48163	ibo-umb
323382	ibo-xho
378378	ibo-yor
491925	ibo-zul
74809	kam-kin
52158	kam-lug
39193	kam-luo
35061	kam-nso
92704	kam-nya
33964	kam-orm
94385	kam-sna
84297	kam-som
16222	kam-ssw
223474	kam-swh
69242	kam-tsn
73198	kam-tso
41157	kam-umb
80998	kam-xho
69432	kam-yor
114922	kam-zul
188222	kin-lug
157234	kin-luo
196675	kin-nso
389725	kin-nya
101820	kin-orm
385576	kin-sna
258130	kin-som
85684	kin-ssw
743661	kin-swh
268221	kin-tsn
315691	kin-tso
122759	kin-umb
361464	kin-xho
213902	kin-yor
492158	kin-zul
105776	lug-luo
107569	lug-nso
183247	lug-nya
64732	lug-orm
197359	lug-sna
131828	lug-som
51518	lug-ssw
325122	lug-swh
175387	lug-tsn
148662	lug-tso
75469	lug-umb
154149	lug-xho
137179	lug-yor
194564	lug-zul
87376	luo-nso
166259	luo-nya
48212	luo-orm
204663	luo-sna
123244	luo-som
38356	luo-ssw
324826	luo-swh
133960	luo-tsn
132306	luo-tso
68896	luo-umb
143748	luo-xho
110753	luo-yor
196325	luo-zul
154111	nso-nya
70340	nso-orm
155175	nso-sna
130594	nso-som
74696	nso-ssw
307206	nso-swh
234768	nso-tsn
212052	nso-tso
63006	nso-umb
200563	nso-xho
148906	nso-yor
230661	nso-zul
82514	nya-orm
976015	nya-sna
516451	nya-som
76598	nya-ssw
1078568	nya-swh
276998	nya-tsn
350167	nya-tso
141972	nya-umb
698857	nya-xho
512418	nya-yor
1062461	nya-zul
91493	orm-sna
83049	orm-som
31701	orm-ssw
178212	orm-swh
97553	orm-tsn
78559	orm-tso
44331	orm-umb
95505	orm-xho
73868	orm-yor
92733	orm-zul
511185	sna-som
76168	sna-ssw
1095473	sna-swh
287574	sna-tsn
336898	sna-tso
152770	sna-umb
842612	sna-xho
524739	sna-yor
1160370	sna-zul
61247	som-ssw
604372	som-swh
179485	som-tsn
177327	som-tso
93461	som-umb
69318	som-wol
362513	som-xho
355099	som-yor
506404	som-zul
147869	ssw-swh
85369	ssw-tsn
101540	ssw-tso
29533	ssw-umb
97437	ssw-xho
66000	ssw-yor
142991	ssw-zul
480942	swh-tsn
553410	swh-tso
276967	swh-umb
785796	swh-xho
559321	swh-yor
1240423	swh-zul
285124	tsn-tso
107024	tsn-umb
287133	tsn-xho
194308	tsn-yor
341119	tsn-zul
128803	tso-umb
383556	tso-xho
168359	tso-yor
471398	tso-zul
132264	umb-xho
81309	umb-yor
181634	umb-zul
371261	xho-yor
1066327	xho-zul
560858	yor-zul


### License

We are releasing this dataset under the terms of [CC-BY-NC](https://github.com/facebookresearch/LASER/blob/main/data/wmt22_african/LICENSE).