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MAFAND-MT: Masakhane Anglo & Franco Africa News Dataset for Machine Translation

Zulu(zul)SpeechMTSouthern Africa

Dataset Info

Language

Zulu (zul)

Modality

Speech

Domain

News

Size

Hours

Institution

GitHub

Last Updated

26 May 2026

License & Access

SPDX identifierUnknown

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RedistributionAllowed

PII RISK

Unknown risk

Full Record

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Registry columns (18/27)

iso code: zul
Dataset name: MAFAND-MT: Masakhane Anglo & Franco Africa News Dataset for Machine Translation
Modality: Speech
Type: dataset
Link: https://github.com/masakhane-io/lafand-mt
NLP Task: MT
Domain: News
Data Format: Not stated
Size Metric: Hours
Size Value: Hours
License: Not stated
Open Access: Open
Source Repository: GitHub
Year Published: Not stated
Creator/Author(s): Not stated
Funder/Partner: Other
Dialect Coverage: Standard
Gender Balance: Not stated
Speaker Count: Not stated
Annotation Type: Not stated
Status: Active
Has Datasheet: No
PII Risk: Not stated
Consent Verified: Not stated
Verified By: Lanfrica Pipeline
Date Indexed: 2026-05-26
Notes / Flags: Parsed from Lanfrica name: mafand-mt-masakhane-anglo-franco-africa-news-dataset-for-machine-translation.

Quality (DQI) (2/12)

Datasheet Fields Completed: Not stated
SPDX License ID: Not stated
Redistribution Allowed?: Not stated
Content Hash: Not stated
Submitted By: LanAfrica pipeline (automated)
Fetch Date: 2026-05-26
Last Updated Date: Not stated
Annotation Guidelines Available?: Not stated
IAA Score: Not stated
Cleaning Notes: Not stated
Benchmark Exists?: Not stated
Benchmark Citation: Not stated

Representativeness (DRI) (1/7)

Gender Distribution: Not stated
Region Coverage: Not stated
Region Distribution: Not stated
Age Range Coverage: Not stated
Register: Not stated
Marginalized Group Note: Not stated
Demographic Fields Reported Count: 0

Readiness Score Breakdown

5/5

Data Coverage100%

Model Availability100%

Benchmarks100%

Documentation76%

Recency100%

Representativeness

Gender Balance

Regional Distribution

Dialect Coverage

Inclusivity

Provenance

Source URL

https://github.com/masakhane-io/lafand-mt

Fetch Timestamp

26 May 2026

Content Hash

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Audit Log

Record indexed from GitHub

26 May 2026

Source status: Active

26 May 2026

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Parsed from Lanfrica name: mafand-mt-masakhane-anglo-franco-africa-news-dataset-for-machine-translation.

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Parsed from Lanfrica name: mafand-mt-masakhane-anglo-franco-africa-news-dataset-for-machine-translation.

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Parsed from Lanfrica name: mafand-mt-masakhane-anglo-franco-africa-news-dataset-for-machine-translation.

18 languagesEwe(ewe)SpeechMT

Open26 May 2026

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Parsed from Lanfrica name: mafand-mt-masakhane-anglo-franco-africa-news-dataset-for-machine-translation.

18 languagesFon(fon)SpeechMT

Open26 May 2026

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Parsed from Lanfrica name: mafand-mt-masakhane-anglo-franco-africa-news-dataset-for-machine-translation.

18 languagesHausa(hau)SpeechMT

Open26 May 2026

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Parsed from Lanfrica name: mafand-mt-masakhane-anglo-franco-africa-news-dataset-for-machine-translation.

18 languagesIgbo(ibo)SpeechMT

Open26 May 2026

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Parsed from Lanfrica name: mafand-mt-masakhane-anglo-franco-africa-news-dataset-for-machine-translation.

18 languagesLuganda(lug)SpeechMT

Open26 May 2026

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Parsed from Lanfrica name: mafand-mt-masakhane-anglo-franco-africa-news-dataset-for-machine-translation.

18 languagesLuo(luo)SpeechMT

Open26 May 2026

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Parsed from Lanfrica name: mafand-mt-masakhane-anglo-franco-africa-news-dataset-for-machine-translation.

18 languagesMooré(mos)SpeechMT

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Parsed from Lanfrica name: mafand-mt-masakhane-anglo-franco-africa-news-dataset-for-machine-translation.

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Parsed from Lanfrica name: mafand-mt-masakhane-anglo-franco-africa-news-dataset-for-machine-translation.

18 languagesSwahili(swa)SpeechMT

Open26 May 2026

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Parsed from Lanfrica name: mafand-mt-masakhane-anglo-franco-africa-news-dataset-for-machine-translation.

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18 languagesWolof(wol)SpeechMT

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