Open data

An open corpus for the Comorian language

Luha Yini publishes its data for research, teaching and language tools. Here is what is already available and what is being prepared.

Datasets

Available
Alphabet module
The official alphabet, its graphemes, words and phrases with their meaning, dialect variants and sources. Readable today through the public API.
56 graphemes · 918 words · 208 phrases · 85 concepts
In preparation
Voice corpus
Recordings validated by the community, aligned with their text and tied to their dialect and island.
In preparation
Transcriptions and translations
Transcriptions in the official alphabet and their translations, for machine translation and speech recognition.

Documentation

The Alphabet module can be read freely, without an account, through a JSON API. The full route reference is generated automatically.

API addresshttps://api.luhayini.com

Public routes

GET /v2/alphabet/module
GET /v2/alphabet/symbols
GET /v2/alphabet/words
GET /v2/alphabet/phrases
GET /v2/alphabet/concepts
GET /v2/alphabet/dialectal-features
GET /v2/alphabet/sources

Example

curl "https://api.luhayini.com/v2/alphabet/words?limit=5"

Full API reference

Licences and sources

Datasets and tools will be opened gradually, under free licences; the licence of each dataset will be stated with its publication. Members' recordings and contributions are published under the CC-BY-SA 4.0 licence. For every word, the Alphabet module cites the sources it comes from.

Sources of the Alphabet module

Transcription et orthographe du comorienMohamed Ahmed-Chamanga · 2019
Projet d'orthographe pratique du comorien (1988) + Version officielle 2019Mohamed Ahmed-Chamanga, Michel Lafon, Jean-Luc Sibertin-Blanc · INALCO - Études Océan Indien n°9 · 1988
NISUSOMA SHIMAORE - J'apprends le shimaoréJean-Paul Razafindrakoto, CASNAV Réunion · CASNAV Réunion · 2019
Encyclopédie de la Langue Comorienne (autres ressources)compilation luhayini · 2026
Lexique complet du shikomori - Françaiscompilation luhayini · 2026
Lexique comorien (shindzuani) – françaisMohamed Ahmed-Chamanga · L'Harmattan, Paris · 1992
Le comorien (shikomori) : quelques contrastes pertinents pour l'acquisition du français langue secondeKassim Mohamed Soyir, Anne Zribi-Hertz · LGIDF (CNRS, Université Paris 8) · 2017

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Datasets

Available

Alphabet module

The official alphabet, its graphemes, words and phrases with their meaning, dialect variants and sources. Readable today through the public API.

56 graphemes · 918 words · 208 phrases · 85 concepts

In preparation

Voice corpus

Recordings validated by the community, aligned with their text and tied to their dialect and island.