UNICEF WCARO NLP Landscape

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

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🌍 General Information

swc
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congo swahili
cong1236
Niger–Congo
Latin script ( Roman Swahili alphabet ) Arabic script ( Arabic Swahili alphabet ) Swahili Braille
2.0 million
9.1 million
9100000 (10⁶+)
safe
Democratic Republic of Congo
Congo Swahili, Zaïre Swahili
Congo Swahili on Wikipedia

🗺️ Language Use

Data from CLEAR Global's Language Use Data Platform.

👥 Actors (1)

CLEAR Global (Ngo)

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📝 Notes

Observations

  • Major lingua franca in eastern DRC
  • Substantial difference with coastal Swahili (Kenya, Tanzania)
  • MT focused work by CLEAR Global (Models not on HuggingFace)

ASR Models (1)

ModelDownloadsLikes
espnet/xeus 60 146

View on HuggingFace: swc: 1

TTS Models (0)

No TTS models found.

MT Models (11)

ModelSizeDownloadsLikes
Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-swc-en — 166 0
Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-en-swc — 53 0
Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-sv-swc — 45 0
Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-swc-fi — 44 0
Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-swc-sv — 44 0
Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-swc-es — 43 0
Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-swc-fr — 43 0
Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-fr-swc — 40 0
Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-fi-swc — 39 0
vonjack/opus-mt-mul-en-big 0.3B 39 4
Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-es-swc — 35 0

View on HuggingFace: swc: 11

LLM Models (3)

ModelSizeDownloadsLikes
UBC-NLP/toucan-base 0.6B 2.5K 5
UBC-NLP/toucan-1.2B 1B 1.9K 1
UBC-NLP/cheetah-1.2B — 33 4

View on HuggingFace: swc: 3

Datasets

ASR Datasets (0)

No datasets found.

TTS Datasets (0)

No datasets found.

Translation Datasets (2)

DatasetRowsDownloadsLikes
CLEAR-Global/Gamayun-kits 623.0K 54 2
SalomonMetre13/cd_multi_parallel_31k_v1 31.4K 3 0

View on HuggingFace: swc: 2