UNICEF WCARO NLP Landscape

West and Central Africa Language Technology

Last updated: 2026-04-23

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Temne

tem

🌍 General Information

ISO 639-3tem

ISO 639-1—

French Nametemne

Glottocodetimn1235

Language FamilyNiger–Congo

Writing SystemLatin

L1 Speakers2.0 million

L2 Speakers—

Population2500000 (10⁶+)

Endangermentsafe

CountriesGuinea, Sierra Leone

Also Known AsTemen, Themne, Timene, Timmannee, Timne

WikipediaTemne on Wikipedia

🗺️ Language Use

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Language use data not yet available for Temne in CLEAR Global's platform.

See the sections below for other available data.

🤖 NLP & Tech Resources

✓ AfroLID

✓ Fineweb2: 💬

✓ CMU Wilderness

✓ MMS-ASR

✓ MMS-TTS

✓ MMS-LID

✓ Omnilingual ASR

📝 Notes

Observations

Survey Focus 2 for Sierra Leone (2026 UNICEF WCAR Local Languages Survey, as "Temni")
Also in Use Cases Document: Sierra Leone offline parenting micro-learning, WASH SOP micro-lessons (Krio, Mende, Temne)

ASR Models (1)

Model	Downloads	Likes
espnet/xeus	60	146

View on HuggingFace: tem: 1

TTS Models (0)

No TTS models found.

MT Models (5)

Model	Size	Downloads	Likes
Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-tc-bible-big-deu_eng_fra_por_spa-mul	0.2B	88	1
Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-tc-bible-big-mul-deu_eng_nld	0.2B	54	2
Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-tc-bible-big-mul-deu_eng_fra_por_spa	0.2B	54	2
Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-tc-bible-big-alv-deu_eng_fra_por_spa	0.2B	47	0
vonjack/opus-mt-mul-en-big	0.3B	39	4

View on HuggingFace: tem: 5

LLM Models (0)

No LLM models found.

Datasets

ASR Datasets (0)

No datasets found.

TTS Datasets (0)

No datasets found.

Translation Datasets (1)

Dataset	Downloads	Likes
community-datasets/udhr	123	2

View on HuggingFace: tem: 1