Sango - UNICEF WCARO NLP

🌍 General Information

ISO 639-3sag

ISO 639-1sg

French Namesango

Glottocodesang1328

Language FamilyCreole

Writing SystemLatin script

L1 Speakers620,000

L2 Speakers—

Population5500000 (10⁶+)

Endangermentsafe

CountriesCentral African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo

Also Known AsSangho, Sanngo

WikipediaSango on Wikipedia

🗺️ Language Use

Data from CLEAR Global's Language Use Data Platform.

🤖 NLP & Tech Resources

✓ AfroLID

✓ NLLB-200

✓ MADLAD-400 Docs: 2100 MAD-Docs

✓ MADLAD-400 Sentences: 117900 MAD-Sents

✓ Fineweb2: 💬

✓ CMU Wilderness

✓ MMS-ASR

✓ MMS-TTS

✓ MMS-LID

✓ Omnilingual ASR

✓ SimbaBench

Benchmarks

MT (Machine Translation)

FLORES+ 10-sample

Model	direction	SpBLEU	ChrF	Source
baidu/ernie-4.5-300b-a47b	eng→sag	7.4	32.8	reported
baidu/ernie-4.5-300b-a47b	sag→eng	3.4	24.8	reported
google/gemini-2.5-pro	sag→eng	21.0	39.7	reported
google/gemini-2.5-pro	eng→sag	7.7	33.2	reported
google/gemini-3-pro-preview	sag→eng	24.3	46.6	reported
google/gemini-3-pro-preview	eng→sag	8.7	31.1	reported
google/translate-v2	sag→eng	17.5	38.1	reported
google/translate-v2	eng→sag	9.3	36.3	reported

FLORES-200

Model	direction	BLEU	chrF	Source
google/madlad400-3b-mt	sag→eng	8.2	31.1	reported
google/madlad400-3b-mt	eng→sag	6	30.1	reported
google/madlad400-7.2b-mt	sag→eng	9	31.7	reported
google/madlad400-7.2b-mt	eng→sag	5.8	29.2	reported
google/madlad400-10.7b-mt	sag→eng	10	32.8	reported
google/madlad400-10.7b-mt	eng→sag	6.4	30.7	reported
google/madlad400-8b-lm	sag→eng	2.7	22.1	reported
google/madlad400-8b-lm	eng→sag	0.1	5.3	reported

LLM (Large Language Models)

SIB-200 10-sample

Model	Classification Acc.	Source
amazon/nova-pro-v1	100.0	reported
openai/gpt-4o	100.0	reported
openai/gpt-5	100.0	reported

MMLU Synthetic 10-sample

Model	MMLU Acc.	Source
anthropic/claude-3.7-sonnet	80.0	reported
anthropic/claude-opus-4.6	88.9	reported
google/gemini-3-pro-preview	80.0	reported

MGSM Synthetic 10-sample

Model	MGSM Acc.	Source
anthropic/claude-opus-4.6	87.5	reported
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6	80.0	reported
google/gemini-3-pro-preview	90.0	reported

ARC Synthetic 10-sample

Model	ARC Acc.	Source
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6	100.0	reported
deepseek/deepseek-v3.2-exp	100.0	reported
google/gemini-3-pro-preview	80.0	reported

TRANSLATION

Kreyòl-MT (bible-based)

Model	BLEU (sag→eng)	BLEU (eng→sag)	BLEU (sag→fra)	BLEU (fra→sag)	Source
jhu-clsp/kreyol-mt	39	37	72	90	reported

📝 Notes

Observations

National lingua franca of the Central African Republic
Sole widely-spoken local language for CAR coverage
Kreyol-MT models are not tagged with "Translation" task so it doesn't show up on Hugging Face queries

ASR Models (17)

Model	Size	Downloads	Likes
MahmoudAshraf/mms-300m-1130-forced-aligner	0.3B	4.0M	83
facebook/mms-1b-all	1.0B	2.0M	195
facebook/mms-1b-fl102	1.0B	8.7K	29
UBC-NLP/Simba-S	2B	2.2K	4
facebook/mms-1b-l1107	1.0B	280	12
espnet/xeus	—	60	146
UBC-NLP/Simba-W	2B	44	0
UBC-NLP/Simba-M	—	33	0
bc7ec356/heep-universal	0.8B	31	0
onnx-community/mms-300m-1130-forced-aligner-ONNX	—	25	0
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
UBC-NLP/Simba-H	—	5	0
romara-labs/mms-300m-1130-forced-aligner-ONNX	—	4	0
UBC-NLP/Simba-X	—	3	0

View on HuggingFace: sg: 16 | sag: 1

TTS Models (1)

Model	Downloads	Likes
Dapor/Dapson	0	4

View on HuggingFace: sg: 1

MT Models (31)

Model	Size	Downloads	Likes
facebook/nllb-200-distilled-600M	—	1.1M	880
google/madlad400-3b-mt	3B	329.0K	192
facebook/nllb-200-distilled-1.3B	—	147.0K	181
facebook/nllb-200-3.3B	—	81.6K	443
Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-mul-en	—	61.6K	89
facebook/nllb-200-1.3B	—	31.4K	71
Xenova/nllb-200-distilled-600M	—	4.4K	50
Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-en-mul	—	3.3K	28
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-1.3B-ct2-int8	—	116	2
Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-fi-sg	—	47	0
Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-en-nic	—	42	0
Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-fr-sg	—	42	0
Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-sg-sv	—	42	0
Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-nic-en	—	41	0
Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-es-sg	—	39	0
vonjack/opus-mt-mul-en-big	0.3B	39	4
Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-sg-en	—	38	0

View on HuggingFace: sg: 30 | sag: 1

LLM Models (12)

Model	Size	Downloads	Likes
google/madlad400-8b-lm	9B	183	11
jbochi/madlad400-8b-lm	9B	14	8
Kolyadual/Newton-bot-3-text-mini-8B	8B	7	1
goldfish-models/sag_latn_5mb	—	7	0
AAU-NLP/CreoleVal-CreoleM2M	0.6B	6	0
goldfish-models/sag_latn_10mb	—	4	0
goldfish-models/sag_latn_full	—	2	0
misterlakaz/Ceramic-Base-856b	—	0	6
misterlakaz/Midas-1922b	—	0	8
GlemVNT/VNT-3.5F-16K	—	0	0
wikilangs/sg	—	0	0
LumieraLM/Lumiera_v2	—	0	0

View on HuggingFace: sg: 8 | sag: 4

Datasets

ASR Datasets (8)

Dataset	Rows	Downloads	Likes
sarulab-speech/yodas2_sidon	1.5M	6.0K	60
suryatmodulus/yodas2_sidon	—	1.1K	0
UBC-NLP/SimbaBench_dataset	748.0K	975	0
WueNLP/sib-fleurs	94.4K	260	11
YuRiVeRTi/V1Q	186.0K	201	3
french-datasets/espnet_yodas2	—	16	0
dijihax/Dataset	—	8	2
french-datasets/espnet_yodas	—	5	0

View on HuggingFace: sg: 5 | sag: 3

TTS Datasets (6)

Dataset	Rows	Downloads	Likes
sarulab-speech/yodas2_sidon	1.5M	6.0K	60
suryatmodulus/yodas2_sidon	—	1.1K	0
UBC-NLP/SimbaBench_dataset	748.0K	975	0
WueNLP/sib-fleurs	94.4K	260	11
YuRiVeRTi/V1Q	186.0K	201	3
dijihax/Dataset	—	8	2

View on HuggingFace: sg: 5 | sag: 1

Translation Datasets (29)

Dataset	Rows	Downloads	Likes
facebook/flores	—	43.4K	97
openlanguagedata/flores_plus	893.0K	15.8K	124
gtak1/panlex-meanings	64.1M	6.3K	0
google/smol	798.0K	2.8K	94
Muennighoff/flores200	—	1.6K	20
jhu-clsp/kreyol-mt	1.9M	1.2K	9
Helsinki-NLP/tatoeba	—	866	56
mteb/FloresBitextMining	2.0K	303	1
visheratin/laion-coco-nllb	894.0K	255	44
cointegrated/panlex-meanings	157.0M	255	13
YuRiVeRTi/V1Q	186.0K	201	3
ymoslem/Tatoeba-Translations	8.6M	192	5
slone/nllb-200-10M-sample	10.0M	168	13
community-datasets/udhr	—	123	2
Helsinki-NLP/qed_amara	—	114	5
mteb/flores	2.0K	96	0
MEYNG/sango-vocabulary	1.2K	67	0
cis-lmu/GlotStoryBook	80.1K	67	7
FrancophonIA/gatitos	—	61	4
vpermilp/nllb-200-distilled-600M-rust	—	51	1

View on HuggingFace: sg: 17 | sag: 12