NaxiAI is a digital infrastructure project dedicated to preserving and revitalising the Naxi language (纳西语), a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by roughly 300,000 people in the Lijiang valleys of Yunnan, China. The Naxi are home to Dongba, the world's last living hieroglyphic script.
纳西语属藏缅语族，约30万人使用，主要分布于云南省丽江。纳西族拥有世界上唯一仍在使用的象形文字——东巴文。
3,800+ Naxi lexical entries with Pinyin, IPA transcription, tone markers, and parallel Chinese/English definitions. Data sourced from Webonary, Pangloss, and original field recordings.
3,800+纳西语词条，含拼音、IPA转写、声调标记及中英文释义。
A growing collection of Naxi–Chinese–English sentence pairs used for training and evaluating translation models. Includes conversational, proverbial, and narrative registers.
纳西语—中文—英文三语平行句对，用于训练和评估翻译模型。
LoRA-adapted language models trained on 60,000+ Naxi examples. Our best model achieves 82.3 NTQS — a 41-point improvement over zero-shot frontier models. Built on Gemma 2 9B, published with full provenance.
基于60,000+纳西语样本训练的LoRA微调模型，最佳模型达82.3 NTQS。
The Dongba script is the world's last living hieroglyphic writing system. We digitise Naxi cultural and linguistic books, OCR them in Chinese, and provide English translations with full-text concordance search.
东巴文是世界上唯一仍在使用的象形文字。我们数字化纳西文化典籍，OCR识别中文，并提供英文翻译与全文检索。
NaxiAI is sponsored by the Peters Northeastern Foundation, which supports non-profit work in education, culture, and community. Model weights, corpus provenance, and evaluation methods are published openly — not merely described.