jshgwng/lango-llm

# Lango LLM — Open-Source Language AI for Lango (Luo) > Building datasets and fine-tuned language models for Lango, a Nilotic language spoken by over 1.5 million people in northern Uganda. --- ## What is Lango? Lango is a Nilotic language spoken primarily in the Lango sub-region of northern Uganda. It is a low-resource language — meaning it has very little digital text, almost no NLP tools, and is largely absent from modern AI systems like ChatGPT or Google Translate. This project aims to change that. --- ## Project Vision We believe every language deserves AI tools in its own tongue. Our goal is to: - Build the **first open-source Lango NLP dataset** - Fine-tune **language models** for Lango ↔ English translation - Create a **Lango chatbot** for education, health, and community use - Develop tools that **linguists, students, and developers** can all contribute to --- ## Features ### Currently Available - Starter dataset structure (Lango–English sentence pairs) - Fine-tuning script using Hugging Face `transformers` - Dataset collection guidelines - Contribution workflow for non-developers (linguists, translators) ### Planned - [ ] 10,000+ high-quality Lango–English sentence pairs - [ ] Fine-tuned translation model (English ↔ Lango) - [ ] Web-based demo translation app - [ ] Lango chatbot for basic conversation - [ ] Part-of-speech tagging dataset - [ ] Voice/speech dataset (text-to-speech prep) - [ ] Integration with Hugging Face Hub --- ## Example Use Cases | Use Case | Description | |---|---| | **Translation** | Translate health information, educational content, and government documents into Lango | | **Education** | Build learning tools that teach in the Lango language | | **Chatbot** | Answer common questions (health, agriculture, civic) in Lango | | **Keyboard / Autocomplete** | Suggest Lango words on mobile phones | | **Research** | Enable linguistic research into Lango grammar and vocabulary | --- ## Repository Structure ``` lango-llm/ …