awesome_fula_nl_resources

• 1. context
• 2. tools
  • 2.1. machine learning models
  • 2.2. crowdsourcing platforms
  • 2.3. android apps
  • 2.4. github repo
• 3. datasets
  • 3.1. datasets translation
    • 3.1.1. Bible
    • 3.1.2. Coran
    • 3.1.3. NLLB
    • 3.1.4. wikimedia
    • 3.1.5. QED
    • 3.1.6. copyrighted translations
  • 3.2. dictionaries
    • 3.2.1. online dictionaries
    • 3.2.2. pdf dictionaries
  • 3.3. dataset unlabeled text
  • 3.4. datasets audio
• 4. other resources
  • 4.1. fulfulde resources

1. context

Fula/Fulani is a language spoken by 40 million people across 18 countries in West and Central Africa.

It belongs to the Niger-Congo family, specifically the Atlantic-Congo branch, under the Atlantic group known as Senegambian languages. It is composed of numerous dialects, including Pulaar, Fulfulde, and Maasina.

Resources mentioned here favour Pular spoken in Guinea.

ISO-639 codes

• 639-1 : ff - Fula/Fulah
• ISO 639-2 : ful – Fula/Fulah
• ISO 639-3 codes according to ethnologue.com and sil.org:
  • fuc – Pulaar (Senegambia, Mauritania)
  • fuf – Pular (Guinea, Sierra Leone)
  • ffm – Maasina Fulfulde (Mali, Ivory Coast, and Ghana by 1.6 m)
  • fue – Borgu Fulfulde (Benin, Togo)
  • fuh – Western Niger Fulfulde (Burkina, Niger)
  • fuq – Central–Eastern Niger Fulfulde (Niger)
  • fuv – Nigerian Fulfulde (Nigeria)
  • fub – Adamawa Fulfulde (Cameroon, Chad, Nigeria)
  • fui – Bagirmi Fulfulde (CAR)(Chad)

alphabet

map from maria-kosogorova FulaLanguageMap

2. tools

• google translate

2.1. machine learning models

• translation & speech to text - firtanam.cawoylel.com

• translations - sil.org Alpha 2

  • fuq - Central-Eastern Niger - fine-tuned NLLB and Alpine models
  • ffm - Maasina - fine-tuned NLLB and Alpine models
  • fuv - Nigerian - NLLB only

• translation only - huggingface.co/spaces/flutter-painter/nllb-fra-fuf-v2

2.2. crowdsourcing platforms

• Language technology tools for Fula - cawoylel.com
• Common Voice ff / Pootoon

2.3. android apps

• books: Defte Pulaar
• Pulaar - English translations: Fula: Pulaar To English
• Fula android keyboard

2.4. github repo

• spelling checker - github.com/BirdiD/Spelling-corrector-Pulaar
• predict the suffix form of a given fula noun - github.com/yaya-sy/fula_noun_suffix_alternantions

3. datasets

3.1. datasets translation

3.1.1. Bible

Text already extracted and available in dataset/fra-ful/bible_fr_ff.txt

• new testament fula (guinea) (sql) - ebible.org fuf
• new testament french (sql) - ebible.org fra

3.1.2. Coran

Text already extracted and available in dataset/fra-ful/quran_fr_ff.txt

sources :

• tanzil translations
• islamhouse.com
• archive.org
• ia803107.us.archive.org

3.1.3. NLLB

• opus.nlpl.eu/NLLB/en&ff/v1/NLLB

3.1.4. wikimedia

• wikimedia fr
• wikimedia ff

3.1.5. QED

• QED fr
• QED ff

3.1.6. copyrighted translations

• ellaf textes-peuls

3.2. dictionaries

3.2.1. online dictionaries

• french to fula webonary.org/pular by Oumar Bah
• english to fulani pink-frannie-25

3.2.2. pdf dictionaries

• Dictionnaire peul de l'agriculture et de la nature

• Dictionnaire peul du corps et de la santé

• Vocabulaire du monde rural

3.3. dataset unlabeled text

• pulaar.org
• wikipedia fula

3.4. datasets audio

• deftepulaar.com

• French African Accented openslr.org/57

  • Cameroon Niger
  • Apache 2.0

• West African Virtual Assistant Speech Recognition Corpus openslr.org/106/

  • French, Maninka, Pular and Susu
  • CC BY-SA 4.0

• West African Radio Corpus - unsupervised training - openslr.org/105

  • French, Guerze, Koniaka, Kissi, Kono, Maninka, Mano, Pular, Susu, and Toma
  • CC BY-SA 4.0

• Bible audio

  • globalrecordings.net fr fuf
  • globalrecordings.net fr ful
  • faithcomesbyhearing.com
  • find.bible

• google/fleurs

  • hugging face
  • Pulaar Sénégal fleurs.ff_sn
  • storage.googleapis.com FLEURS/ff_sn

4. other resources

• about the language : https://senelangues.huma-num.fr/pdf/peul.pdf
• about the people : https://www.webpulaaku.site/defte/index.html
• youtube teacher : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZkuHlujBfY

4.1. fulfulde resources

• Nigerian Fulfulde dataset huggingface.co/datasets/gsarti/flores_101

• cantique eglise adventiste in fulfude

  • https://github.com/Touza-Isaac/Deftere-Gimmi-Be-Fulfulde
  • version fr : https://www.hymnes.net/
  • https://adventlife.fr/hymnes-et-louanges/a-celui-qui-nous-a-sauves-079/