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CC-BY-NC-4.0
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Forum for Language InitiativesDataset ID:
cmlgxqdl80019mg07p0197u76
Release Date: 2/10/2026
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The Khowar Word List and Alphabet Corpus is a curated lexical dataset of 22K tokens, organized into two UTF-8 encoded text files. It includes the full Khowar script (letters and language-specific characters) along with an extensive word list, and supports lexicography, morphological analysis, language documentation, and low-resource NLP tasks for Khowar.
Licensing
Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 International (CC-BY-NC-4.0)
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This dataset is provided for research, educational, and non-commercial purposes only. Users must provide proper attribution to the dataset creators and must not redistribute modified versions without acknowledgment.
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Ethical Review
The dataset consists exclusively of lexical items and script data and does not contain personal, sensitive, or confidential information. It was curated from linguistic resources intended for public, educational, and research use. Ethical standards regarding cultural respect, transparency, and responsible reuse have been fully observed.
Intended Use
This dataset is intended for use in lexicographic research, dictionary development, morphological analysis, language learning tools, spell-checking systems, and low-resource NLP applications for the Khowar language.
Khowar (کھووار), also known as Chitrali, is an Indo-Aryan language of the Dardic group spoken primarily in the Chitral region of Pakistan. It serves as the lingua franca of Chitral and is also spoken in parts of Gilgit-Baltistan, Upper Swat, and among migrant communities in major Pakistani cities. Khowar is written in a Perso-Arabic–based script with several language-specific characters.
The dataset uses the Perso-Arabic Khowar script, including standard letters and Khowar-specific extended characters.
ا ب پ ت ٹ ث ج چ ح خ د ڈ ذ ر ڑ ز ژ س ش ص ض ط ظ ع غ ف ق ک گ ل م ن و ہ ی ے ء
Khowar-specific characters:
ݰ ݱ ځ څ ݮ ݯ
(ݰاپیک، ݱانگ، ځوخ، څیق، ݮینݮیر، ݯونگو)
سالو
آؤرے
آئندوتے
آئین
آئیندو
آئینو
آئیو
آئیی
آئییو
آئے
آبادا
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