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Luganda

Spoken by over 5 million Ugandans, central to Buganda's culture and among Uganda's most widely used local languages.

Niger-Congo
Bantu
Uganda

Language

Luganda in civic contexts

Explore the open models, civic discourse datasets, benchmarks, and research advancing AI capabilities for Luganda.

How it was built

Language Information

Endonym: Oluganda
Family: Niger-Congo · Bantu
Script: Latin
Regions: Uganda
Open models: 01
Datasets: 02

Models

Open models for Luganda

Luganda-gemma-1B-it
Base:
1B Gemma 3
Language:
Luganda
License:
Apache-2.0 adapter
Direction:
en → lg, lg → en
BLEU:
13.85 (held-out)
Trained:
13.05M params
- Luganda
- Translation
- Open Model
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Data

Datasets for Luganda

Playground

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