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All languages Only sentences in: Abkhaz Adyghe Afrihili Afrikaans Ainu Aklanon Albanian Algerian Arabic Amharic Ancient Greek Arabic Aragonese Armenian Assamese Assyrian Neo-Aramaic Asturian Awadhi Aymara Azerbaijani Balinese Bambara Banjar Bashkir Basque Bavarian Baybayanon Belarusian Bengali Berber Bhojpuri Bislama Bodo Bosnian Breton Brithenig Bulgarian Burmese Buryat Cantonese Catalan Cayuga Cebuano Central Bikol Central Dusun Central Huasteca Nahuatl Central Mnong Chagatai Chamorro Chavacano Chechen Cherokee Chinese Pidgin English Chinyanja Choctaw Chukchi Chuvash Coastal Kadazan Cornish Corsican Crimean Tatar Croatian Cuyonon CycL Czech Danish Dhivehi Dungan Dutch Dutton World Speedwords Egyptian Arabic Emilian English Erromintxela Erzya Esperanto Estonian Evenki Ewe Extremaduran Faroese Fiji Hindi Fijian Finnish French Frisian Friulian Ga Gagauz Galician Gan Chinese Garhwali Georgian German Gheg Albanian Gilbertese Gothic Greek Greenlandic Gronings Guadeloupean Creole French Guarani Guerrero Nahuatl Gujarati Gulf Arabic Haitian Creole Hakka Chinese Hausa Hawaiian Hebrew Hiligaynon Hill Mari Hindi Hmong Daw (White) Hmong Njua (Green) Ho Hungarian Hunsrik Iban Icelandic Ido Igbo Ilocano Indonesian Ingrian Interlingua Interlingue Inuktitut Iraqi Arabic Irish Isan Italian Jamaican Patois Japanese Javanese Jewish Babylonian Aramaic Jewish Palestinian Aramaic Jin Chinese Juhuri (Judeo-Tat) K'iche' Kabyle Kalmyk Kamba Kannada Kapampangan Karachay-Balkar Karakalpak Karelian Kashmiri Kashubian Kazakh Kekchi (Q'eqchi') Keningau Murut Khakas Khasi Khmer Kinyarwanda Kirundi Klingon Kölsch Komi-Permyak Komi-Zyrian Konkani (Goan) Korean Kotava Kumyk Kurdish Kven Finnish Kyrgyz Láadan Ladin Ladino Lakota Lao Latgalian Latin Latvian Laz Ligurian Lingala Lingua Franca Nova Literary Chinese Lithuanian Livonian Lojban Lombard Louisiana Creole Low German (Low Saxon) Lower Sorbian Luganda Luxembourgish Macedonian Madurese Maithili Malagasy Malay Malay (Vernacular) Malayalam Maltese Mambae Manchu Mandarin Chinese Manx Maori Marathi Marshallese Meadow Mari Mi'kmaq Middle English Middle French Min Nan Chinese Minangkabau Mingrelian Mirandese Mohawk Moksha Mon Mongolian Morisyen Moroccan Arabic Naga (Tangshang) Nahuatl Nauruan Navajo Nepali Newari Ngeq Nigerian Fulfulde Niuean Nogai North Frisian North Levantine Arabic North Moluccan Malay Northern Sami Norwegian Bokmål Norwegian Nynorsk Novial Nyungar Occitan Odia (Oriya) Ojibwe Okinawan Old Aramaic Old East Slavic Old English Old French Old Norse Old Prussian Old Saxon Old Spanish Old Tupi Old Turkish Orizaba Nahuatl Ossetian Ottoman Turkish Palatine German Palauan Pangasinan Papiamento Pashto Pennsylvania German Persian Phoenician Picard Piedmontese Pipil Polish Portuguese Pulaar Punjabi (Eastern) Punjabi (Western) Quechua Quenya Rapa Nui Rendille Romani Romanian Romansh Russian Rusyn Samoan Samogitian Sango Sanskrit Sardinian Saterland Frisian Scots Scottish Gaelic Serbian Setswana Seychellois Creole Shanghainese Shona Shuswap Sicilian Sindarin Sindhi Sinhala Slovak Slovenian Somali Southern Sami Southern Sotho Spanish Sumerian Sundanese Swabian Swahili Swazi Swedish Swiss German Syriac Tachawit Tagal Murut Tagalog Tahaggart Tamahaq Tahitian Tajik Talossan Talysh Tamil Tarifit Tatar Telugu Temuan Tetun Thai Tibetan Tigre Tigrinya Tok Pisin Tokelauan Toki Pona Tonga (Zambezi) Tongan Tsonga Turkish Turkmen Tuvaluan Tuvinian Uab Meto Udmurt Ukrainian Umbundu Upper Sorbian Urdu Urhobo Uyghur Uzbek Venetian Veps Vietnamese Volapük Võro Walloon Waray Welsh Wolof Xhosa Xiang Chinese Yakut Yiddish Yoruba Zaza Zulu Unknown language - File description
- Contains all the sentences in the selected language. Each sentence is associated with a unique id and an ISO 639-3 language code.
- Fields and structure
- Sentence id [tab] Lang [tab] Text
Detailed Sentences
- Filename
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All languages Only sentences in: Abkhaz Adyghe Afrihili Afrikaans Ainu Aklanon Albanian Algerian Arabic Amharic Ancient Greek Arabic Aragonese Armenian Assamese Assyrian Neo-Aramaic Asturian Awadhi Aymara Azerbaijani Balinese Bambara Banjar Bashkir Basque Bavarian Baybayanon Belarusian Bengali Berber Bhojpuri Bislama Bodo Bosnian Breton Brithenig Bulgarian Burmese Buryat Cantonese Catalan Cayuga Cebuano Central Bikol Central Dusun Central Huasteca Nahuatl Central Mnong Chagatai Chamorro Chavacano Chechen Cherokee Chinese Pidgin English Chinyanja Choctaw Chukchi Chuvash Coastal Kadazan Cornish Corsican Crimean Tatar Croatian Cuyonon CycL Czech Danish Dhivehi Dungan Dutch Dutton World Speedwords Egyptian Arabic Emilian English Erromintxela Erzya Esperanto Estonian Evenki Ewe Extremaduran Faroese Fiji Hindi Fijian Finnish French Frisian Friulian Ga Gagauz Galician Gan Chinese Garhwali Georgian German Gheg Albanian Gilbertese Gothic Greek Greenlandic Gronings Guadeloupean Creole French Guarani Guerrero Nahuatl Gujarati Gulf Arabic Haitian Creole Hakka Chinese Hausa Hawaiian Hebrew Hiligaynon Hill Mari Hindi Hmong Daw (White) Hmong Njua (Green) Ho Hungarian Hunsrik Iban Icelandic Ido Igbo Ilocano Indonesian Ingrian Interlingua Interlingue Inuktitut Iraqi Arabic Irish Isan Italian Jamaican Patois Japanese Javanese Jewish Babylonian Aramaic Jewish Palestinian Aramaic Jin Chinese Juhuri (Judeo-Tat) K'iche' Kabyle Kalmyk Kamba Kannada Kapampangan Karachay-Balkar Karakalpak Karelian Kashmiri Kashubian Kazakh Kekchi (Q'eqchi') Keningau Murut Khakas Khasi Khmer Kinyarwanda Kirundi Klingon Kölsch Komi-Permyak Komi-Zyrian Konkani (Goan) Korean Kotava Kumyk Kurdish Kven Finnish Kyrgyz Láadan Ladin Ladino Lakota Lao Latgalian Latin Latvian Laz Ligurian Lingala Lingua Franca Nova Literary Chinese Lithuanian Livonian Lojban Lombard Louisiana Creole Low German (Low Saxon) Lower Sorbian Luganda Luxembourgish Macedonian Madurese Maithili Malagasy Malay Malay (Vernacular) Malayalam Maltese Mambae Manchu Mandarin Chinese Manx Maori Marathi Marshallese Meadow Mari Mi'kmaq Middle English Middle French Min Nan Chinese Minangkabau Mingrelian Mirandese Mohawk Moksha Mon Mongolian Morisyen Moroccan Arabic Naga (Tangshang) Nahuatl Nauruan Navajo Nepali Newari Ngeq Nigerian Fulfulde Niuean Nogai North Frisian North Levantine Arabic North Moluccan Malay Northern Sami Norwegian Bokmål Norwegian Nynorsk Novial Nyungar Occitan Odia (Oriya) Ojibwe Okinawan Old Aramaic Old East Slavic Old English Old French Old Norse Old Prussian Old Saxon Old Spanish Old Tupi Old Turkish Orizaba Nahuatl Ossetian Ottoman Turkish Palatine German Palauan Pangasinan Papiamento Pashto Pennsylvania German Persian Phoenician Picard Piedmontese Pipil Polish Portuguese Pulaar Punjabi (Eastern) Punjabi (Western) Quechua Quenya Rapa Nui Rendille Romani Romanian Romansh Russian Rusyn Samoan Samogitian Sango Sanskrit Sardinian Saterland Frisian Scots Scottish Gaelic Serbian Setswana Seychellois Creole Shanghainese Shona Shuswap Sicilian Sindarin Sindhi Sinhala Slovak Slovenian Somali Southern Sami Southern Sotho Spanish Sumerian Sundanese Swabian Swahili Swazi Swedish Swiss German Syriac Tachawit Tagal Murut Tagalog Tahaggart Tamahaq Tahitian Tajik Talossan Talysh Tamil Tarifit Tatar Telugu Temuan Tetun Thai Tibetan Tigre Tigrinya Tok Pisin Tokelauan Toki Pona Tonga (Zambezi) Tongan Tsonga Turkish Turkmen Tuvaluan Tuvinian Uab Meto Udmurt Ukrainian Umbundu Upper Sorbian Urdu Urhobo Uyghur Uzbek Venetian Veps Vietnamese Volapük Võro Walloon Waray Welsh Wolof Xhosa Xiang Chinese Yakut Yiddish Yoruba Zaza Zulu Unknown language - File description
- Contains additional fields for each sentence (owner name, date created/modified).
- Fields and structure
- Sentence id [tab] Lang [tab] Text [tab] Username [tab] Date added [tab] Date last modified
Sentences (CC0)
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All languages Only sentences in: Afrikaans Arabic Belarusian Berber Brithenig Cantonese Catalan Czech Danish Dutch Egyptian Arabic English Esperanto Finnish French German Hebrew Hungarian Icelandic Ido Ingrian Interlingua Interlingue Italian Japanese Jewish Babylonian Aramaic Kabyle Karelian Klingon Kurdish Kven Finnish Ladino Latin Ligurian Lingua Franca Nova Literary Chinese Mandarin Chinese Middle English North Levantine Arabic Norwegian Bokmål Novial Nyungar Old Aramaic Phoenician Polish Portuguese Quenya Romanian Russian Sindarin Spanish Swahili Swedish Tachawit Talossan Toki Pona Turkish Ukrainian Uyghur Volapük Yiddish Unknown language - File description
- Contains all the sentences available under CC0.
- Fields and structure
- Sentence id [tab] Lang [tab] Text [tab] Date last modified
Links
- Filename
- links.tar.bz2
- File description
- Contains the links between the sentences. 1 [tab] 77 means that sentence #77 is the translation of sentence #1. The reciprocal link is also present, so the file will also contain a line that says 77 [tab] 1.
- Fields and structure
- Sentence id [tab] Translation id
Tags
- Filename
- tags.tar.bz2
- File description
- Contains the list of tags associated with each sentence. 381279 [tab] proverb means that sentence #381279 has been assigned the "proverb" tag.
- Fields and structure
- Sentence id [tab] Tag name
Lists
- Filename
- user_lists.tar.bz2
- File description
- Contains the list of sentence lists.
- Fields and structure
- List id [tab] Username [tab] Date created [tab] Date last modified [tab] List name [tab] Editable by
Sentences in lists
- Filename
- sentences_in_lists.tar.bz2
- File description
- Indicates the sentences that are contained by any lists. 13 [tab] 381279 means that sentence #381279 is contained by the list that has an id of 13.
- Fields and structure
- List id [tab] Sentence id
Japanese indices
- Filename
- jpn_indices.tar.bz2
- File description
- Contains the equivalent of the "B lines" in the Tanaka Corpus file distributed by Jim Breen. See this page for the format. Each entry is associated with a pair of Japanese/English sentences. Sentence id refers to the id of the Japanese sentence. Meaning id refers to the id of the English sentence.
- Fields and structure
- Sentence id [tab] Meaning id [tab] Text
Sentences with audio
- Filename
- sentences_with_audio.tar.bz2
- File description
- Contains the ids of the sentences, in all languages, for which audio is available. Other fields indicate who recorded the audio, its license and a URL to attribute the author. If the license field is empty, you may not reuse the audio outside the Tatoeba project.
- Fields and structure
- Sentence id [tab] Username [tab] License [tab] Attribution URL
User skill level per language
- Filename
- user_languages.tar.bz2
- File description
- Indicates the self-reported skill levels of members in individual languages.
- Fields and structure
- Lang [tab] Skill level [tab] Username [tab] Details
Users' sentence reviews
- Filename
- users_sentences.csv
- File description
- Contains sentences reviewed by users. The value of the review can be -1 (sentence not OK), 0 (undecided or unsure), or 1 (sentence OK). Warning: this data is still experimental.
- Fields and structure
- Username [tab] Lang [tab] Sentence id [tab] Review [tab] Date added [tab] Date last modified
Transcriptions
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All languages Only sentences in: Cantonese Japanese Mandarin Chinese Uzbek - File description
- Contains all transcriptions in auxiliary or alternative scripts. A username associated with a transcription indicates the user who last reviewed and possibly modified it. A transcription without a username has not been marked as reviewed. The script name is defined according to the ISO 15924 standard.
- Fields and structure
- Sentence id [tab] Lang [tab] Script name [tab] Username [tab] Transcription