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+dataset: fr-en-tupuri-translation
+language:
+  - fr
+  - en
+  - tpi
+multilinguality: translation
+license: mit
+task_categories:
+  - translation
+task_ids:
+  - machine-translation
+---
+
+# French-English to Tupuri Translation Dataset
+
+## Dataset Summary
+
+This dataset provides sentence-level translations from **French and English into Tupuri**, a low-resource language spoken in northern Cameroon and southwestern Chad. It aims to support research in African language translation and NLP for underrepresented languages.
+
+## Supported Tasks and Leaderboards
+
+- **Machine Translation**: French/English → Tupuri.
+- **Multilingual modeling**: Useful for zero-shot or low-resource model training.
+
+## Languages
+
+- `fr`: French
+- `en`: English
+- `tpi`: Tupuri (ISO 639-3: tur)
+
+## Dataset Structure
+
+The dataset is in Excel format with the following columns:
+
+| french_sentence | english_sentence | tupuri_sentence |
+|------------------|-------------------|-------------------|
+| Merci                | Thank you             | Miindo               |
+
+## Data Splits
+
+All data is currently in one file. Manual splits into train/val/test are recommended.
+
+## Usage
+
+```python
+from datasets import load_dataset
+
+dataset = load_dataset("your-username/fr-en-tupuri-translation")
+print(dataset["train"][0])
+
+
+@dataset{fr_en_tupuri_translation_2025,
+  title     = {French-English to Tupuri Translation Dataset},
+  author    = {Nopole Flairan, Ngana Noa},
+  year      = {2025},
+  publisher = {Hugging Face},
+  note      = {Low-resource language dataset for Tupuri translation.}
+}