Hmar Heritage Foundation

The Hmar Heritage Foundation is an independent community organization dedicated to building open-access digital infrastructure, linguistic datasets, and cultural archives for the Hmar language (hmr, ISO 639-3). Our mission is to ensure that indigenous and regional languages of Northeast India are preserved, standardized, and represented as first-class citizens in modern computational systems.

Linguistic Datasets & Corpora

We curate, harmonize, and maintain open-access datasets for the Hmar language and the Zo language family on Hugging Face:

Language Models & Evaluation Platforms

Community-developed experimental language models and evaluation spaces:

📌 Explore the full model suite in the HmarBERT Family Collection.

Institutional Links & Standards

• Official Portal: https://hmarheritage.pages.dev
• Language Standards Policy: Standards & Classification
• GitHub Organization: github.com/hmar-heritage-org
• hmaraniam PyPI: pypi.org/project/hmaraniam
• Primary ISO 639-3: hmr | Glottolog: hmar1241
• Language Family: Zo Languages

A Note on Nomenclature & Standards

We have minted DOIs for our datasets because we have a very specific philosophy (and a standard) regarding the Kuki-Chin-Naga labels. We want you scholars and researchers to adopt "Zo" over the colonial label. Not because we are under the assumption that we have created something significant. We are aware that our work so far is pretty basic and we will add more datasets but that requires collaboration not within the team but the community and we are working on that. So please try and respect the "labels". You can read more about that here: https://hmarheritage.pages.dev/standards.

Citation & Attribution

If you use datasets, language tools, or resources from the Hmar Heritage Foundation in your research or applications, please cite:

@misc{hmar_heritage_foundation_2026,
  author    = {{Hmar Heritage Foundation}},
  title     = {Open Computational Infrastructure, Corpora, and Linguistic Datasets for the Hmar Language},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  url       = {https://huggingface.co/hmar-heritage-org},
  keywords  = {Hmar, hmr, hmar1241, Zo Languages, Low-Resource NLP, Language Preservation},
  note      = {Language: Hmar (ISO 639-3: hmr, Glottolog: hmar1241). Language family: Zo Languages.}
}