Languages

Coverage by language

Ethiopia has more than 80 languages. The catalogue lists 100 entries, every language Glottolog records for the country, of which 91 are living or endangered. The remainder go beyond the familiar "more than 80": 6 extinct languages, 2 pidgins, and a few whose classification or status Glottolog does not record. Full method.

Languages with a model or dataset

Ethiopian languages with a model or dataset from this community, and what each has. Papers are indexed works matching the language name; a ≈ marks a count that over-matches.

Language Family Models Datasets Papers
OromoAfaan Oromooorm Cushitic 7 1 270
Amharicአማርኛamh Semitic 22 9 1248
SomaliAf-Soomaalisom Cushitic 6 2 193≈
Tigrinyaትግርኛtir Semitic 7 3 119
Wolayttawal Ta-Ne-Omotic 1 0 26
Geezግዕዝgez Semitic 5 0 not recorded

6 of 100 catalogue entries. Ge'ez is liturgical rather than spoken, and Wolaytta's coverage is a single tokenizer, so the smaller counts here should be read with care.

Languages with research but no released resources

Languages that have a research literature but no open model or dataset. These are possible next targets.

  • Sidamosid 5 papers≈
  • Afaraar 33 papers≈
  • Kafakbr 7 papers≈
  • Gedeodrs 1 paper≈
  • Silt'estv 3 papers≈
  • Nuernus 6 papers≈
  • Kambaataktb 20 papers≈
  • Awngiawn 10 papers
  • Bertawti 34 papers≈

Languages with no model, dataset or indexed paper

The ten with the largest recorded speaker populations. Those figures are not shown at present, because the available sources are not good enough to publish; the ordering still uses them.

  • Sebat Bet Guragesgw Semitic
  • Benchbcq Ta-Ne-Omotic
  • Alaba-K'abeenaalw Cushitic
  • Aariaiw South Omotic
  • Sahossy Cushitic
  • Ethiopian Sign Languageeth Sign Language
  • Konsokxc Cushitic
  • Northern Gumuzguk Gumuz
  • Xamtangaxan Cushitic
  • Mesqanmvz Semitic

85 of the 100 languages in the catalogue have nothing built and nothing published. See the full catalogue.

Coverage counts work built for a language. A hundred-language model that lists Amharic among its tags is not counted here; see the note on multilingual work for why that distinction is kept.

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