UNICEF WCARO NLP Landscape

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

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🌍 General Information

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mandinka
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Niger–Congo
Arabic , Latin , N'Ko , Garay
2.1 million
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2100000 (10⁶+)
safe
Cote d'Ivoire, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Senegal, Sierra Leone
Eastern Malinke, Kankan Maninka, Madingo, Malinké, Mande, Manding, Maninga, Mandingo, Maninka-Mori, Maninkakan
Mandinka on Wikipedia

🗺️ Language Use

Data from CLEAR Global's Language Use Data Platform.

👥 Actors (1)

Jokalante (Startup)

Senegalese social enterprise ("jokalante" = "facilitate dialogue" in Wolof) providing digital solutions for rural and underserved populations. Core pl...

🤖 NLP & Tech Resources

Lanfrica
OLAC
Grambank
WALS
✓ AfroLID
✓ Fineweb2: 💬
✓ CMU Wilderness
✓ MMS-ASR
✓ MMS-TTS
✓ MMS-LID
✓ Omnilingual ASR

📝 Notes

Observations

  • Survey Focus 1 for Gambia (2026 UNICEF WCAR Local Languages Survey)
  • Survey Focus 4 for Guinea-Bissau (2026 UNICEF WCAR Local Languages Survey, as "Mandinga")
  • Cross-border language (Gambia, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea)

ASR Models (1)

ModelDownloadsLikes
espnet/xeus 60 146

View on HuggingFace: mnk: 1

TTS Models (0)

No TTS models found.

MT Models (5)

ModelSizeDownloadsLikes
mradermacher/OmniTranslate-1.0-GGUF 0.6B 1.1K 3
mradermacher/OmniTranslate-1.1-GGUF 0.6B 1.1K 2
MihaiPopa-1/OmniTranslate-1.1 0.6B 393 0
MihaiPopa-1/OmniTranslate-1.0 0.6B 374 0
MihaiPopa-1/OmniTranslate-1.0-LoRA — 0 0

View on HuggingFace: mnk: 5

LLM Models (0)

No LLM models found.

Datasets

ASR Datasets (0)

No datasets found.

TTS Datasets (0)

No datasets found.

Translation Datasets (3)

DatasetRowsDownloadsLikes
HuggingFaceFW/finetranslations — 75.8K 283
HuggingFaceFW/finetranslations-edu 109.0M 1.1K 27
MihaiPopa-1/OmniSurgical-1.0 47.0K 60 0

View on HuggingFace: mnk: 3