metadata

license: mit
language:
  - en
  - sn
tags:
  - translation
  - bible
  - parallel-corpus
  - religious-text

English-Shona Bible Verse Dataset

This dataset contains parallel English (en) and Shona (sn) Bible verses from Genesis (Genesisi) to Revelations (Zvakazarurwa).

Dataset Description

This dataset is a full parallel corpus of English and Shona (sn) Bible verses.

Languages: English (en), Shona (sn)
Data Format: JSON
Size: 62049 entries

Dataset Structure

The dataset is stored in a JSON file named dataset.json. Each entry is a dictionary with the following structure:

{
  "en": "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.",
  "sn": "Pakutanga Mwari akasika denga nenyika."
}

Citation

Original Citation: This dataset is adapted from OPUS, originally created by Christos Christodoulopoulos and Mark Steedman and available at https://opus.nlpl.eu/bible-uedin/sn&en/v1/bible-uedin under CC0 1.0 License.

This version has been reformatted for Hugging Face datasets by Dzinaishe Mpini, but the content remains the same.