African Languages Python Packages

africa-g2p

Text and orthography toolkit for 869 African languages: grapheme-to-phoneme (native spelling or IPA), conversion between any two languages' orthographies, one shared cross-language spelling, and a reversible plain-ASCII form. Non-Latin scripts romanised. Pure Python, no dependencies.

3K 18 5

amharic-tokenizer

Syllable-aware BPE tokenizer for the Amharic language (አማርኛ) – fast, accurate, trainable.

3K 100 15

yotext

A Python Library for orthographic normalization and diacritic restoration for Yorùbá text. Separates tone marks from underdots. It has zero dependencies with a CLI and a web demo.

890 3 0

iranlowo

Ìrànlọ́wọ́ is a utility library for analysis & (pre)processing of Yorùbá text → https://pypi.org/project/iranlowo

624 20 10

africa-speech-synth

Build synthetic speech datasets for African languages with Google Gemini TTS — corpus text, phoneme-coverage sentence selection, africa-g2p orthography normalisation, and a training-ready HuggingFace dataset

541 0 0

afrispeech-synth

505 0 0

african-speech-mcp

Quality-aware, read-only MCP server for discovering and selecting African speech corpora, Wolof first, with audited metrics, provenance, licensing, and training-set planning.

363 1 0

yarngpt-sdk

Python SDK for YarnGPT text-to-speech — 16 authentic Nigerian voices, async support, and a CLI.

259 1 0

low-resource-nlp-toolkit

Selective language routing and code-switch audits, evaluated on a reproducible AfriSenti benchmark.

195 0 0

tarakimu

A Python based utility for Swahili and English number to words conversion.

106 7 1

africanwordnet

AfricanWordNet: Implementation of WordNets for African languages. Citation paper "Practical Approach on Implementation of WordNets for South African Languages" https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2021.gwc-1.3.pdf

91 5 0

afrolid

AfroLID, a powerful neural toolkit for African languages identification which covers 517 African languages.

50 40 11