perfectperrito5-art/LUGHA

LUGHA is the African community-powered linguistic infrastructure platform for African languages, collecting and preserving vocabulary, translations, pronunciations, stories, and cultural knowledge to power future language technologies and AI. Lugha . Verified African language infrastructure — a community-governed knowledge graph that speakers teach and developers build on . Words, proverbs, pronunciation audio, confidence scores, and licensed dataset exports for the next generation of African-language AI. Not another chatbot — the datastore underneath one Speakers verify. Communities score trust. Developers export and integrate. Most AI has never learned African languages deeply. Lugha fixes the data layer : structured terms, glosses, examples, heritage content, pronunciation recordings, provenance, and CC-BY-4.0 licensing — exposed through a versioned HTTP API and filtered corpus downloads. --- ## ✦ Two sides of the platform Guardians Teach & preserve Contribute words, proverbs, phrases, and heritage stories. Record pronunciation. Tag dialect, region, and source. Community votes shape confidence scores — not a single authority, not a black-box model. Developers Build & train Query the knowledge API live, or download filtered JSONL / CSV corpora. Fetch pronunciation audio per entry. Use API keys with rate limits. Plug Lugha into dictionaries, tutors, RAG chatbots, or native-language AI pipelines. --- ## ✦ What is in the MVP today 🎙 Teach with provenance Words, proverbs, examples, dialect, region, source type, and license on every contribution. Audio stored in MinIO (S3-compatible), streamed via /api/media . 📦 Dataset export GET /api/v1/datasets/export — filter by language, confidence, content type, dialect, license, has_audio . Download up to 5,000 rows as JSONL or CSV with a manifest line. 🔗 Knowledge API (v1) Search entries with confidence scores, verification status, and audio URLs. Community verify endpoint. Designed for live apps and RAG retrieval. 🔑 API keys & rate limits Create keys from the Developers page. Authenticate with X-API-Key . Separate bu …