Papiamento translation models pap

6 models into Papiamento, 5 from Papiamento. Best scored into Papiamento: English to Papiamento (chrF++ 44.4). Best scored from Papiamento: Papiamento to English (chrF++ 49.6).

Which open models work for Papiamento?

Windy Translate lists 6 open translation models into Papiamento and 5 from Papiamento. All of them can be downloaded from Hugging Face and run on your own hardware. By licence: 11 Apache-2.0 (terms and attribution text: licensing). 11 of them have a screening score on FLORES-200. The best scored into Papiamento is translate-en-pap (chrF++ 44.4, Usable). The best scored from Papiamento is translate-pap-en (chrF++ 49.6, Good).

With English. English to Papiamento: translate-en-pap (chrF++ 44.4, Usable). Papiamento to English: translate-pap-en (chrF++ 49.6, Good). To translate between Papiamento and a language with no direct model, you can go through English with these two.

By band, the scored Papiamento models are 1 Good, 9 Usable and 1 Limited (Excellent is chrF++ 60 or more, Good 45 to 60, Usable 30 to 45, Limited 15 to 30). A score is a 48-sentence screening of news and encyclopedia text, not a measure of accuracy, and a difference of a point or two is noise. How we measured.

Speech-to-text. No speech model here covers Papiamento: there is no dedicated model, and Whisper's tokenizer does not list the language.

Each model page has a short snippet to download and run the model yourself, its licence and attribution text, and its score where there is one. Pick the best scored model for your direction, then try it on a few sentences of your own text: a screening score is a starting point, not a guarantee.

Into Papiamento

From Papiamento

Scores: chrF++ on FLORES-200 dev, 48 sentences, measured 2026-08-04. Method.