UNICEF WCARO NLP Landscape

West and Central Africa Language Technology
Last updated: 2026-04-23
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Krio

kri

🌍 General Information

kri
krio
krio1253
English Creole
6.9 million
6.9 million
6300000 (10⁶+)
safe
Sierra Leone
Creole, Patois

🗺️ Language Use

Data from CLEAR Global's Language Use Data Platform.

👥 Actors (1)

Farmerline / Darli AI (Startup)

Ghanaian agritech company building technology solutions for smallholder farmers. Core platform Mergdata is a cloud-based farm management system used b...

🤖 NLP & Tech Resources

✓ AfroLID
✓ Google Translate: 2022
✓ MADLAD-400 Docs: 786 MAD-Docs
✓ MADLAD-400 Sentences: 38800 MAD-Sents
✓ Fineweb2: 💬
✓ CMU Wilderness
✓ MMS-ASR
✓ MMS-TTS
✓ MMS-LID
✓ Omnilingual ASR

Benchmarks

MT (Machine Translation)

GATONES

TRANSLATION

Kreyòl-MT (bible-based)

ModelBLEU (kri→eng)BLEU (eng→kri)BLEU (kri→fra)BLEU (fra→kri)Source
jhu-clsp/kreyol-mt51705890reported

📝 Notes

Observations

  • Use Cases Document: Sierra Leone lingua franca, used across multiple UNICEF NLP use cases (offline parenting, digital literacy, voice-to-structured CHW reporting, dialect-aware radio monitoring)
  • Appears among focus 1 languages in 2026 UNICEF WCAR Local Languages Survey
  • Kreyol-MT model doesn't appear in Hugging Face model listing because it's not tagged with "Machine Translation" task

ASR Models (2)

ModelSizeDownloadsLikes
MosesJoshuaCoker/best_for_now 0.2B 187 0
espnet/xeus 60 146

View on HuggingFace: kri: 2

TTS Models (0)

No TTS models found.

MT Models (30)

ModelSizeDownloadsLikes
google/madlad400-3b-mt 3B 329.0K 192
jbochi/madlad400-3b-mt 3B 76.4K 154
google/madlad400-10b-mt 11B 3.6K 131
google/madlad400-7b-mt 8B 2.7K 20
notjjustnumbers/madlad400-3b-mt-Q4_K_M-GGUF 3B 225 4
google/madlad400-7b-mt-bt 8B 201 7
jbochi/madlad400-7b-mt-bt 8B 191 8
santhosh/madlad400-3b-ct2 135 14
mtsdurica/madlad400-3b-mt-Q4_K_M-GGUF 3B 89 4
jbochi/madlad400-7b-mt 8B 79 7
jbochi/madlad400-10b-mt 11B 71 18
NikolayKozloff/madlad400-10b-mt-Q8_0-GGUF 11B 54 3
Nextcloud-AI/madlad400-3b-mt-ct2-int8 53 2
CXDuncan/madlad400-3b-mt-optimized-quantized-onnx 31 4
fernandoruiz/madlad400-3b-mt-Q4_K_S-GGUF 3B 27 0
CXDuncan/madlad400-3b-mt-optimized-onnx 20 0
Heng666/madlad400-3b-mt-ct2-int8 20 1
Heng666/madlad400-7b-mt-ct2-int8 18 3
tritiumoxide/madlad400-7b-mt-bt-Q4_K_M-GGUF 8B 18 0
NikolayKozloff/madlad400-10b-mt-Q6_K-GGUF 11B 16 1

View on HuggingFace: kri: 30

LLM Models (3)

ModelSizeDownloadsLikes
google/madlad400-8b-lm 9B 183 11
jbochi/madlad400-8b-lm 9B 14 8
AAU-NLP/CreoleVal-CreoleM2M 0.6B 6 0

View on HuggingFace: kri: 3

Datasets

ASR Datasets (0)

No datasets found.

TTS Datasets (0)

No datasets found.

Translation Datasets (7)

DatasetRowsDownloadsLikes
google/smol 798.0K 2.8K 94
jhu-clsp/kreyol-mt 1.9M 1.2K 9
community-datasets/udhr 123 2
cis-lmu/GlotStoryBook 80.1K 67 7
FrancophonIA/gatitos 61 4
kargaranamir/GlotStoryBook-backup 80.1K 21 0
Bretagne/PolyWrite_clean 155 11 0

View on HuggingFace: kri: 7