DFS Glossary Dataset
The expert-verified Digital Financial Services glossary, published as a structured, openly-licensed dataset in Amharic and Afaan Oromoo— open language infrastructure for two of Ethiopia's major languages.
Get the dataset
The full structured dataset is openly available on these platforms — pick the one that fits your workflow.
GitHub
Canonical source and version history. Propose new terms or report corrections through Issues.
View repository→Hugging Face
Ready for machine learning and NLP. Load both languages directly with the datasets library.
Open on Hugging Face→Zenodo
Permanently archived with a citable DOI for academic and research use.
10.5281/zenodo.20666618→Download the glossary
Just want to read it? Grab the print-ready PDF for either language — the same expert-verified terminology, ready to share or reference offline.
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Finance Focused DFS Glossary in Amharic
PDF · 173 terms · 651 KBAfaan Oromoo
DFS Glossary in Afaan Oromoo
PDF · 173 terms · 1.1 MBHow it was built
Expert-verified
Translated and reviewed by domain experts as part of the AKOFADA project.
Fidelity-first
Built from the original editable sources — never extracted from PDFs — to preserve Ge'ez (Amharic) character accuracy. Text is kept verbatim.
Cross-linked
The two languages share an English term as a join key, so Amharic and Afaan Oromoo entries align one-to-one.
Citation
Shega and AKOFADA (2026). DFS Glossary — Amharic & Afaan Oromoo (Version 1.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20666618
Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Free to share and adapt, including commercially, with attribution. Produced by Shega · AKOFADA project · funded by the Gates Foundation.
