metadata.json

{
  "dataset_name": "meyng/sango-vocabulary",
  "version": "1.3.0",
  "creation_date": "2026-04-02",
  "last_updated": "2026-05-27",
  "description": "First structured digital vocabulary dataset for the Sango language (ISO 639-1: sg), the national language of the Central African Republic spoken by over 5 million people.",
  "note": "This is the actively-maintained vocabulary dataset (623 unique deduplicated entries). The live SangoAI API (sangoai.sbs) reflects the same 623 verified unique words sourced from DynamoDB.",
  "languages": [
    {
      "code": "sg",
      "name": "Sango",
      "bcp47": "sg",
      "iso639_3": "sag"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "name": "French",
      "bcp47": "fr",
      "iso639_3": "fra"
    },
    {
      "code": "en",
      "name": "English",
      "bcp47": "en",
      "iso639_3": "eng"
    }
  ],
  "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0",
  "source": {
    "organization": "MEYNG",
    "website": "https://meyng.com",
    "platform": "SangoAI (https://sangoai.sbs)",
    "repository": "https://github.com/meyng-hub/sangoai"
  },
  "statistics": {
    "vocabulary": {
      "total_entries": 623,
      "with_pronunciation_guide": 360,
      "with_pronunciation_guide_note": "360 of 623 verified entries have pronunciation_guide in the live database; remaining words lack pronunciation data and are a known gap requiring linguistic work.",
      "with_example_sentences": 525,
      "categories": 40,
      "category_distribution": {
        "essential": 175,
        "verbs": 69,
        "places": 53,
        "numbers": 25,
        "actions": 24,
        "food": 23,
        "noun": 22,
        "adjectives": 20,
        "animals": 20,
        "time": 18,
        "family": 15,
        "greetings": 14,
        "emotions": 14,
        "body": 11,
        "clothing": 10,
        "home": 9,
        "technology": 8,
        "professions": 8,
        "verb_action": 7,
        "health": 7,
        "commerce": 7,
        "colors": 7,
        "adjective": 6,
        "nature": 6,
        "grammar": 5,
        "education": 5,
        "questions": 5,
        "particle": 4,
        "adverb": 4,
        "emotion": 3,
        "number": 3,
        "transport": 3,
        "object": 3,
        "animal": 3,
        "phrase": 2,
        "profession": 1,
        "verb_motion": 1,
        "pronoun": 1,
        "tool": 1,
        "weather": 1
      },
      "difficulty_distribution": {
        "beginner": 322,
        "intermediate": 208,
        "advanced": 92,
        "expert": 1
      }
    },
    "training_pairs": {
      "total_pairs": 360,
      "pair_directions": {
        "sango_to_french": 360
      },
      "note": "Extracted from a Sango grammar and dictionary reference. Includes vocabulary entries, sentence fragments, and contextual translations. Quality varies; some entries are book fragments rather than clean parallel sentences."
    }
  },
  "files": [
    {
      "filename": "vocabulary.jsonl",
      "description": "Structured trilingual vocabulary entries (Sango-French-English), deduplicated",
      "format": "JSONL",
      "entries": 623
    },
    {
      "filename": "grammar_rules.json",
      "description": "Structured Sango grammar rules compiled from AI error analysis (13 rules, v1.1.0)",
      "format": "JSON",
      "entries": 13
    },
    {
      "filename": "training_pairs.jsonl",
      "description": "Sango-French translation pairs for fine-tuning",
      "format": "JSONL",
      "entries": 360
    }
  ],
  "citation": {
    "title": "Sango Vocabulary Dataset",
    "authors": ["MEYNG"],
    "year": 2026,
    "url": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/meyng/sango-vocabulary"
  }
}