Wolof-Adapted Industry-Ready Open-Weight Language Models
Wolof is spoken by 23M people, mostly in Senegal, but remains weakly supported by open-weight language models, while API models raise cost, governance, and sovereignty constraints for local deployments.
By Gw\'enol\'e Lecorv\'e, Delphine Charlet, Pierre Adam, Floriane Behanzin, Lionel Delphin-Poulat, Johannes Heinecke, G\'eraldine Damnati, Pelin Kaytmaz, Nourredine Khaous, Charbel Kindji, Meriam Maadi, Abdoulaye Mbaye, Claire Perroux, Isma\"el Rousseau, Papa S\'ega Wad\'e, Gilles Xiberras, Olivier Zhang, Malek ZitouniarXiv - cs.CL (NLP)
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Originally published by arXiv - cs.CL (NLP) on Oct 16, 2026.
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