Guinea-Bissau Creole - UNICEF WCARO NLP

🌍 General Information

ISO 639-3pov

ISO 639-1—

French Nameupper guinea crioulo

Glottocodeuppe1455

Language FamilyPortuguese Creole

Writing System—

L1 Speakers1.5 million

L2 Speakers1.5 million

Population350000 (10⁵)

Endangermentsafe

CountriesGambia, Guinea-Bissau, Senegal

Also Known AsCasamance Creole, Casamancese Creole, Casamançais, Crioulo, Crioulo de Guinea-Bissau, Créole, Créole afro-portugais de Casamance, Créole casamançais, Créole de Casamance, Guinea-Bissau Kriyol

WikipediaGuinea-Bissau Creole on Wikipedia

🗺️ Language Use

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Language use data not yet available for Guinea-Bissau Creole in CLEAR Global's platform.

See the sections below for other available data.

🤖 NLP & Tech Resources

Lanfrica

OLAC

WALS

✓ AfroLID

✓ Fineweb2: 💬

✓ MMS-LID

✓ Omnilingual ASR

Benchmarks

TRANSLATION

Kreyòl-MT (bible-based)

Model	BLEU (pov→eng)	BLEU (eng→pov)	Source
jhu-clsp/kreyol-mt	42	26	reported

📝 Notes

Observations

Survey Focus 1 for Guinea-Bissau (2026 UNICEF WCAR Local Languages Survey)
Added to focus list specifically based on survey recommendation (Feb 2026)
Kreyol-MT models are not tagged with "Translation" task so it doesn't show up on Hugging Face queries

ASR Models (1)

Model	Downloads	Likes
espnet/xeus	60	146

View on HuggingFace: pov: 1

TTS Models (0)

No TTS models found.

MT Models (5)

Model	Size	Downloads	Likes
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: pov: 5

LLM Models (0)

No LLM models found.

Datasets

ASR Datasets (0)

No datasets found.

TTS Datasets (0)

No datasets found.

Translation Datasets (5)

Dataset	Rows	Downloads	Likes
HuggingFaceFW/finetranslations	—	75.8K	283
jhu-clsp/kreyol-mt	1.9M	1.2K	9
HuggingFaceFW/finetranslations-edu	109.0M	1.1K	27
community-datasets/udhr	—	123	2
MihaiPopa-1/OmniSurgical-1.0	47.0K	60	0

View on HuggingFace: pov: 5