Brian Roark author Lawrence Wolf-Sonkin author Christo Kirov author Sabrina J Mielke author Cibu Johny author Isin Demirsahin author Keith Hall author 2020-may text English eng European Language Resources Association Marseille, France conference publication 979-10-95546-34-4 This paper describes the Dakshina dataset, a new resource consisting of text in both the Latin and native scripts for 12 South Asian languages. The dataset includes, for each language: 1) native script Wikipedia text; 2) a romanization lexicon; and 3) full sentence parallel data in both a native script of the language and the basic Latin alphabet. We document the methods used for preparation and selection of the Wikipedia text in each language; collection of attested romanizations for sampled lexicons; and manual romanization of held-out sentences from the native script collections. We additionally provide baseline results on several tasks made possible by the dataset, including single word transliteration, full sentence transliteration, and language modeling of native script and romanized text. roark-etal-2020-processing https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.lrec-1.294 2020-may 2413 2423