---
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.}
}