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CC-BY-NC-4.0
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Forum for Language InitiativesDataset ID:
cmlgys7fj001knx077yktc0pd
Release Date: 2/10/2026
Format: TXT
Size: 244.85 KB
The Khowar Literature Corpus by FLI is a curated multi-genre textual dataset consisting of 12 UTF-8 encoded text files with a total of 108K tokens. It includes literary works, poetry, folklore narratives, magazine editions, translated books, articles, reports, and official documents, and supports corpus linguistics, low-resource NLP, digital humanities research, and the preservation of Khowar linguistic and cultural heritage.
Licensing
Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 International (CC-BY-NC-4.0)
https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-NC-4.0.htmlRestrictions/Special Constraints
This dataset is provided strictly for research, academic, educational, and non-commercial purposes. Proper citation and acknowledgment of the original authors, translators, publishers, and dataset curators are required.
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Ethical Review
All data included in this corpus originates from published literary, educational, and publicly distributed sources. Permissions were obtained from original authors or translators where applicable. The dataset does not contain private or confidential information, and ethical standards regarding consent, attribution, and responsible reuse have been fully observed.
Intended Use
This dataset is intended for linguistic research, corpus analysis, low-resource NLP tasks, language modeling, educational use, and cultural and literary documentation of 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 Gilgit-Baltistan, Upper Swat, and by migrant communities in major urban centers such as Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, and Peshawar. Khowar is also used as a second language by the Kalash people.
The corpus is written in the Perso-Arabic Khowar script and includes language-specific characters unique to Khowar orthography.
چ ج ث ٹ ت پ ب ۱
ڈ د ځ څ ݮ ݯ خ ح
ش س ݱ ژ ڑ ز ر ذ
ف غ ع ظ ط ض ص ݰ
ہ و ن م ل گ ک ق
ے ی ء
Khowar-specific characters:
ݰ ݱ ځ څ ݮ ݯ
(ݰاپیک، ݱانگ، ځوخ، څیق، ݮینݮیر، ݯونگو)
رسالہ کھوارنامہ تان وختو نویوکووا مقبول شونین باشییاک اشٹوک رو
بابافتاح الدینو نامہ" نمبر"شائع کویان تودی ہتوباراکیاغ نیویشے ریکودونی ماضیہ بغاتام۔
افریقوتین بوغاوا اوا جہازو اوچے سمندری زندگیو بارا بو اشناریان سار خبر ہوتام۔
روبن سن کروسو ای جہازران موش اوشوئے۔
ای خطرناک طوفانار اچی ہو جہاز چھیوران وا ہورو سف ملگیری بریکو ہیس غیژی اوسنئیے ای ساحلہ تاروران۔
زباناں دے حوالے نال گندھارا ہندکو بورڈ پاکستان دا بیانیہ
تمام انسانان آزاد وا حقو اوچے عزتو لحاظا برابر پیدا بیتی اسونی،
وا ہیتانتین عقل اوچے ضمیر دیونو بیتی شیر ہیغین دیتی
ہیت تان موژی ایوال ایوالیو سوم ݰئیلی سلوک (بھائی چارگی) قائم کوریلیک۔
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