Support Jade-RM's experimental open-source tiny LLM for the Manx language.

This project aims to support and promote the revitalisation of the Manx language and to aid in learning this language. It is intended as a text generation tool and, as the project progresses, a conversation partner with which to have very simple conversations so that learners at beginner/advanced beginner level can practice what they have learned during lessons. The LLM is monolingual with a corpus curated to correspond to grammar and vocabulary learned at Keim Nane (Level 1). As the language is critically endangered with only a couple of thousand speakers, all possible resources are required in order to further its revitalisation and aid learners. A chatbot with which to have a simple and natural conversation is currently lacking in the resources available, therefore the development and continuation of this project would be very helpful here.

Support is required as the project grows in order to ensure data quality and expand the corpus, for example, by corpus review and proofreading by or submissions from fluent Manx speakers. Support is also required for computational power, deployment and hosting costs.

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