Omollos/loba

An open corpus for the endangered and underrepresented languages of East Africa # loba. **Languages found, never lost.** An open corpus for the endangered and underrepresented languages of East Africa — built by the speakers, for the speakers and the tools that will serve them. ## What is Loba? Loba is a community-built, openly licensed dataset of words, phrases, proverbs, and sentences in the languages of East Africa. It starts with **Dholuo** and is designed to grow. The corpus exists so that developers, researchers, and educators can build spell checkers, translation tools, dictionaries, and AI assistants that actually work for Luo speakers — and eventually speakers of Kikuyu, Kamba, Kalenjin, and more. ## Status | Language | Entries | Status | |----------|---------|--------| | Dholuo | building | 🟢 Active | | Kikuyu | — | 🔜 Planned | | Kamba | — | 🔜 Planned | ## Licences - **Code:** MIT - **Data:** CC BY 4.0 ## Contributing Read CONTRIBUTING.md to get started. No linguistics degree required — if you speak, you qualify. ## Community Questions, ideas, and discussions live in GitHub Discussions.