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title: Siamsil
emoji: 🌄
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colorTo: pink
sdk: static
pinned: false
language:
  - ctd
  - en
tags:
  - zomi
  - zolai
  - tedim
  - low-resource
  - machine-translation
  - nllb
  - dictionary
  - language-preservation
---

# Siamsil 🌄

**The digital home for the Zomi language.**

Zomi, also called Zolai or Tedim (ISO 639-3 `ctd`), is spoken by Zomi communities in Myanmar, India, and a growing worldwide diaspora. It has very few digital resources. Siamsil is a non-profit building open tools so Zomi speakers can learn, search, and translate in their own language, and so the language thrives in the age of AI.

## What we work on

- 📖 **Siamsil Dictionary**: an English–Zomi dictionary of about 50,000 entries, being reviewed word by word by native Tedim speakers.
- 🔤 **Zomi Standard Form**: consistent Zolai spelling, built from community style guides, the Bible, and published Zomi writing.
- 🌐 **Translation**: English ⇄ Zomi models fine-tuned from NLLB-200. A model is released only when every source it learned from is properly licensed.
- 🎙️ **Speech**: consent-based recordings for future Zomi speech recognition and text-to-speech.

## Our principles

- **Community first.** Native speakers review and approve the language; nothing machine-made is presented as verified.
- **Respect for owners.** Every source is credited, and used only as its rights holder allows.
- **Open where we can.** Tools and permitted data are shared for the Zomi community and for low-resource language research.

## Get involved

- **Tedim dialect speakers:** help review the dictionary, a few hundred words at a time, at your own pace.
- **Researchers and developers:** we welcome collaboration on low-resource translation and Zomi NLP.
- **Authors, publishers, and churches:** share Zomi texts with permission, so your work helps keep the language alive.

Contact us on GitHub: [@mangpijasuan](https://github.com/mangpijasuan)

*Lungdam mahmah!* 🙏