This document presents a statistical overview of the Parallelium alignment dataset, including aligned verse counts, version-level coverage, and language distributions.
Multilingual — 3,927,811 pairs across 42,562 aligned verses
📌 The number of aligned pairs refers to verse-level combinations between two or more languages.
Each verse aligned between N languages generates N choose 2 pairings.
Multilingual (Qur’an) — 114,226 pairs across 6,236 aligned verses
📌 The number of aligned pairs refers to verse-level combinations between two or more languages.
Each verse aligned between N languages generates N choose 2 pairings.
📌 A "version" corresponds to a specific translation or manuscript tradition in a given language.
| Version ID | Language | Verses |
|---|---|---|
| gr_modern_greek | Greek | 31,060 |
| la_vulgate | Latin | 38,843 |
| fr_lsegond | French | 31,102 |
| fr_bible13 | French | 702 |
| pt_almeida | Portuguese | 31,106 |
| es_arragel | Castilian | 22,652 |
| es_e6e8 | Castilian | 31,247 |
| en_wycliffe | English | 36,248 |
| ca_peiresc | Catalan | 17,245 |
| en_bbe | English | 31,063 |
| en_coverdale | English | 31,086 |
| en_kjv | English | 31,059 |
| es_reina | Castilian | 31,065 |
| fr_jerusalem | French | 31,207 |
| it_alpha | Italian | 1,070 |
| fr_historiale | French | 2,241 |
| es_e3 | Castilian | 24,515 |
| it_beta | Italian | 1,070 |
| gr_lxx | Greek | 27,616 |
| fr_perret | French | 31,102 |
| fr_epee | French | 30,933 |
| en_great | English | 31,108 |
The following plot summarizes the total number of verses grouped by language, aggregating across all available versions:
📌 This visualization complements the per-version table by offering a clearer view of data coverage per language, helping identify underrepresented areas or strong alignments.
A multilingual alignment of the Qur’an (6,236 verses) was also used in model training. It includes 7 languages, such as Arabic, English, French, Latin, and Italian. However, this data is not included in the public release due to redistribution restrictions.
Qur’anic verses are structurally consistent and verse-aligned by design, contributing valuable contrast to biblical sources in the training setup.