Nigerian Fulfulde - UNICEF WCARO NLP

🌍 General Information

ISO 639-3fuv

ISO 639-1—

French Namenigerian fulfulde

Glottocodenige1253

Language FamilyNiger–Congo

Writing SystemArabic ( Ajami ) Latin

L1 Speakers17 million

L2 Speakers—

Population14000000 (10⁶+)

Endangermentsafe

CountriesNigeria

Also Known AsFulani, Fulatanci, Fulbe, Fulfulde, Fulfulde, Mbororo, Fulɓe, Hausa States Fulfulde, Nigerian Fulfulde, Peul

WikipediaNigerian Fulfulde on Wikipedia

🗺️ Language Use

Data from CLEAR Global's Language Use Data Platform.

👥 Actors (1)

ML Collective (Ngo)

Non-profit research lab providing research opportunities to independent and underrepresented researchers. Runs multiple African language NLP projects ...

🤖 NLP & Tech Resources

✓ AfroLID

✓ NLLB-200

✓ Fineweb2: 💬

✓ Omnilingual ASR

Benchmarks

ASR (Speech-to-Text)

OmniCorpus

Model	WER	CER	Source
facebook/omniASR-LLM-3B	55.92	23.93	evaluated
facebook/omniASR-LLM-7B	53.85	22.64	evaluated

FLEURS

Model	WER	CER	Source
facebook/omniASR-LLM-3B	52.36	18.48	evaluated
facebook/omniASR-LLM-7B	48.07	14.89	evaluated

MT (Machine Translation)

FLORES+ devtest

Model	direction	chrF++	Source
facebook/nllb-200-distilled-600M	fuv→eng	30.72	evaluated
facebook/nllb-200-distilled-600M	eng→fuv	16.95	evaluated
facebook/nllb-200-3.3B	fuv→eng	32.4	evaluated
facebook/nllb-200-3.3B	eng→fuv	22.94	evaluated

BOUQuET

Model	direction	chrF++	Source
facebook/nllb-200-distilled-600M	fuv→eng	32.04	evaluated
facebook/nllb-200-distilled-600M	eng→fuv	20.88	evaluated
facebook/nllb-200-3.3B	fuv→eng	36.27	evaluated
facebook/nllb-200-3.3B	eng→fuv	24.51	evaluated
OMT-LLaMA 8B	eng→fuv	?	reported
OMT-LLaMA 8B	fuv→eng	?	reported

FLORES+ 10-sample

Model	direction	SpBLEU	ChrF	Source
anthropic/claude-opus-4.6	fuv→eng	18.9	44.0	reported
anthropic/claude-opus-4.6	eng→fuv	3.1	22.9	reported
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4	eng→fuv	6.4	25.6	reported
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4	fuv→eng	9.7	29.2	reported
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6	fuv→eng	9.3	40.1	reported
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6	eng→fuv	4.1	22.2	reported
baidu/ernie-4.5-300b-a47b	eng→fuv	3.8	26.5	reported
baidu/ernie-4.5-300b-a47b	fuv→eng	3.8	21.0	reported
google/gemini-2.5-pro	eng→fuv	5.5	26.4	reported
google/gemini-2.5-pro	fuv→eng	7.8	30.9	reported
google/gemini-3-pro-preview	fuv→eng	13.8	36.2	reported
google/gemini-3-pro-preview	eng→fuv	5.6	25.6	reported

LLM (Large Language Models)

SIB-200 10-sample

Model	Classification Acc.	Source
anthropic/claude-3.7-sonnet	90.0	reported
anthropic/claude-opus-4.5	100.0	reported
meta-llama/llama-3.1-70b-instruct	90.0	reported

SAHARA

Model	Lang. Avg.	Reading comprehension Acc.	Source
gemini-3-pro-preview	42.11	42.11	reported
gemini-2.5-pro	31.58	31.58	reported
gpt-5-2025-08-07	23.68	23.68	reported
gpt-5.1-2025-11-13	34.21	34.21	reported
gemini-2.5-flash	36.84	36.84	reported
claude-sonnet-4-5@20250929	31.58	31.58	reported
claude-4-sonnet-20250514	15.79	15.79	reported
gpt-4.1	28.95	28.95	reported
CohereForAI/c4ai-command-a-03-2025	34.21	34.21	reported
meta-llama/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct	28.95	28.95	reported
meta-llama/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct	36.84	36.84	reported
google/gemma-3-27b-it	36.84	36.84	reported
google/gemma-2-27b-it	23.68	23.68	reported
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B	34.21	34.21	reported
meta-llama/Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct	23.68	23.68	reported
Qwen/Qwen3-30B-Instruct-2507	28.95	28.95	reported
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B	18.42	18.42	reported
Tower-Babel/Babel-9B-Chat	31.58	31.58	reported
Tower-Babel/Babel-83B-Chat	21.05	21.05	reported
Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507	31.58	31.58	reported
google/gemma-2-9b-it	18.42	18.42	reported
google/gemma-3-12b-it	10.53	10.53	reported
meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct	18.42	18.42	reported
CohereForAI/aya-23-35B	34.21	34.21	reported
CohereForAI/c4ai-command-r-plus-08-2024	18.42	18.42	reported
CohereForAI/c4ai-command-r7b-12-2024	36.84	36.84	reported
microsoft/Phi-4-mini-instruct	26.32	26.32	reported
meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct	28.95	28.95	reported
microsoft/Phi-3.5-mini-instruct	23.68	23.68	reported
google/gemma-2-2b-it	23.68	23.68	reported
CohereForAI/aya-23-8B	15.79	15.79	reported
google/gemma-3-4b-it	15.79	15.79	reported
meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct	7.89	7.89	reported

ASR Models (5)

Model	Size	Downloads	Likes
espnet/xeus	—	60	146
johntsi/ZeroSwot-Medium_asr-cv_en-to-200	0.4B	17	0
johntsi/ZeroSwot-Large_asr-cv_en-to-200	0.4B	16	1
johntsi/ZeroSwot-Medium_asr-mustc_en-to-200	0.4B	14	0
johntsi/ZeroSwot-Large_asr-mustc_en-to-200	0.4B	12	0

View on HuggingFace: fuv: 5

TTS Models (23)

Model	Size	Downloads	Likes
k2-fsa/OmniVoice	—	606.0K	577
drbaph/OmniVoice-bf16	—	4.7K	13
splendor1811/omnivoice-vietnamese	0.6B	672	2
gluschenko/omnivoice-onnx	—	397	4
edwixx/OmniVoice	—	163	0
WANJIAX2197/OmniVoice	—	30	0
Bgeorge/OmniVoice	—	25	1
yash3120/OmniVoice	—	25	0
ex510/OmniVoice	—	19	0
razi08/OmniVoice	—	17	0
Manish993135/OmniVoice	—	16	0
riasatsk/OmniVoice	—	16	0
harsha7286/OmniVoice	—	15	0
lopho/OmniVoice	—	15	0
bilalRHCH/Arabic-text-to-speech	—	14	0
phucpx247/OmniVoice	—	14	0
gubernac/OmniVoice	—	13	1
preference1/OmniVoice	—	13	0
EBINSHAJI1999/OmniVoice	—	12	0
Citrus-777/OmniVoice	—	12	0

View on HuggingFace: fuv: 23

MT Models (30)

Model	Size	Downloads	Likes
facebook/nllb-200-distilled-600M	—	1.1M	880
facebook/nllb-200-distilled-1.3B	—	147.0K	181
facebook/nllb-200-3.3B	—	81.6K	443
facebook/nllb-200-1.3B	—	31.4K	71
Xenova/nllb-200-distilled-600M	—	4.4K	50
mradermacher/OmniTranslate-1.0-GGUF	0.6B	1.1K	3
mradermacher/OmniTranslate-1.1-GGUF	0.6B	1.1K	2
JustFrederik/nllb-200-distilled-600M-ct2-int8	—	925	1
facebook/nllb-moe-54b	—	557	123
JustFrederik/nllb-200-1.3B-ct2-int8	—	200	0
JustFrederik/nllb-200-distilled-600M-ct2-float16	—	157	0
winstxnhdw/nllb-200-distilled-1.3B-ct2-int8	—	141	6
JustFrederik/nllb-200-distilled-1.3B-ct2-int8	—	116	2
JustFrederik/nllb-200-distilled-600M-ct2	—	65	2
JustFrederik/nllb-200-3.3B-ct2-float16	—	52	3
michaelfeil/ct2fast-nllb-200-distilled-1.3B	—	47	1
michaelfeil/ct2fast-nllb-200-3.3B	—	43	14
ychenNLP/nllb-200-3.3B-easyproject	—	36	8
JustFrederik/nllb-200-distilled-1.3B-ct2-float16	—	30	1
JustFrederik/nllb-200-distilled-1.3B-ct2	—	29	0

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LLM Models (3)

Model	Downloads	Likes
goldfish-models/fuv_latn_5mb	8	0
goldfish-models/fuv_latn_10mb	6	0
goldfish-models/fuv_latn_full	2	0

View on HuggingFace: fuv: 3

Datasets

ASR Datasets (3)

Dataset	Rows	Downloads	Likes
facebook/omnilingual-asr-corpus	548.0K	2.6K	200
WueNLP/sib-fleurs	94.4K	260	11
Sellopale/omnilingualpaleoi	548.0K	28	1

View on HuggingFace: fuv: 3

TTS Datasets (1)

Dataset	Rows	Downloads	Likes
WueNLP/sib-fleurs	94.4K	260	11

View on HuggingFace: fuv: 1

Translation Datasets (18)

Dataset	Rows	Downloads	Likes
HuggingFaceFW/finetranslations	—	75.8K	283
facebook/flores	—	43.4K	97
openlanguagedata/flores_plus	893.0K	15.8K	124
Muennighoff/flores200	—	1.6K	20
facebook/bouquet	5.6M	1.6K	33
HuggingFaceFW/finetranslations-edu	109.0M	1.1K	27
Helsinki-NLP/tatoeba	—	866	56
openlanguagedata/oldi_seed	564.0K	772	11
mteb/FloresBitextMining	2.0K	303	1
visheratin/laion-coco-nllb	894.0K	255	44
community-datasets/udhr	—	123	2
mteb/flores	2.0K	96	0
MihaiPopa-1/OmniSurgical-1.0	47.0K	60	0
vpermilp/nllb-200-distilled-600M-rust	—	51	1
robinhad/long_flores	—	49	0
Svngoku/xP3x-Kongo	1.2M	30	4
neulab/PangeaBench-flores	—	17	0
SupriyoCode/flores200	—	11	0

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