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| title: Siamsil | |
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| 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!* 🙏 |