---
license: mit
task_categories:
- translation
- text-generation
language:
- mho
- lol
- lun
- tll
- cjk
- nga
- lgg
- flr
- alz
- bem
- lin
- bqc
- kin
- lua
- swc
- fr
- en
- de
- ita
- es
- pt
size_categories:
- 10K<n<100K
tags:
- drc
- bible data
- general
---

## <span style="color:#2C3E50;">Dataset Summary</span>
**cd_multi_parallel_31k_v1** is a mid-scale **multilingual parallel corpus** for low-resourced languages of the **Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)**. It consists of **31,440 aligned sentences**, enabling research in **machine translation, multilingual NLP, and linguistic analysis**. This dataset is extracted from **publicly available Bible data**, providing structured and well-aligned multilingual text.

## <span style="color:#2C3E50;">Features</span>
- 🌍 **Multilinguality**: Includes translations in **15 Congolese languages** along with **6 high-resource international languages**.
- 🔗 **Parallel Data**: Sentences are aligned across languages, making it suitable for **training and evaluating machine translation models**.
- ✅ **High Quality**: Extracted from **publicly available Bible data** and carefully processed to **maintain alignment integrity**.
- 🔄 **Versioning**: This is **version 1**.

## <span style="color:#2C3E50;">Languages Included</span>
The dataset includes **15 Congolese languages** and **6 widely spoken international languages**, making it valuable for both **local and global NLP research**.

## <span style="color:#2C3E50;">Dataset Structure</span>
Each entry in the dataset contains:
- 🆔 **A unique sentence ID**
- 🌐 **Translations** in **multiple languages**

## <span style="color:#2C3E50;">Usage</span>
### 📥 <span style="color:#2C3E50;">Loading the dataset</span>
You can load the dataset using the Hugging Face `datasets` library:

```python
from datasets import load_dataset

dataset = load_dataset("SalomonMetre13/cd_multi_parallel_31k_v1")