A high-quality parallel corpus for English ↔ Meitei Mayek (Manipuri), designed to support low-resource NLP research, especially for translation, text generation, and TTS/STT applications. This dataset directly addresses the gap in digital resources for Meitei Lon written in Meitei Mayek script.

🌍 Language Overview

Language: Manipuri (Meitei Lon)
Script: Meitei Mayek
ISO 639-3: mni
Script Code: Mtei
Language Code: mni_Mtei
Region: Manipur, India 🇮🇳
Type: Low-resource, underrepresented
Status: Official language of Manipur

📦 Dataset Overview

Split	Examples	Size (bytes)
`train`	415,210	114.99 MB
`validation`	23,067	6.39 MB
`test`	23,068	6.39 MB
Total	461,345	127.77 MB

Download Size: 61.06 MB
Format: TSV (Tab-Separated Values)
License: MIT
Tokenizer Ready: ✅
Text Normalized: ✅

📁 Data Schema

Column	Description
`src_lang`	Source language code (e.g., `eng_Latn`)
`tgt_lang`	Target language code (e.g., `mni_Mtei`)
`english`	English sentence (source/reference)
`meitei_mayek`	Translated sentence in Meitei Mayek script

🔍 Example

{
  "src_lang": "eng_Latn",
  "tgt_lang": "mni_Mtei",
  "english": "i am hungry",
  "meitei_mayek": "ꯑꯩ ꯆꯥꯛ ꯂꯥꯝꯃꯦ"
}

LOAD

from datasets import load_dataset

dataset = load_dataset("DayanandaThokchom/english-TO-meitei-mayek")

print(dataset["train"][0])

📜 License

MIT License Free to use, modify, and distribute. Attribution appreciated!

📬 Contact

This project is maintained by Dayananda Thokchom

[Email] [thokchomdayananda54@gmail.com]
[whatsapp] [+91 9863032932]
[LinkedIn] [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dayananda-thokchom-91103835b/]

Conclusion

Language is more than communication—it's identity, culture, and legacy. In the world of AI, languages like Meitei Mayek deserve not just preservation, but participation. With this dataset, we’ve laid the foundation for equitable AI systems that respect and empower underrepresented languages.

We’re not just building a dataset—we’re building a future where Meitei Mayek can speak, listen, translate, and be understood by machines on the global stage.

Every byte of data brings Meitei Mayek closer to digital equality. Let’s keep pushing boundaries, one token at a time.

Join the mission. Make your contribution count. 💪🌍

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