Eastern Balochi Literature Corpus

Language Information

• Language: Eastern Balochi
• Language Family: Iranian → Northwestern Iranian → Balochi
• Dialect Group: Eastern Balochi
• Approximate Size: ~1.9M tokens
• Writing Direction: Right-to-left
• Encoding: UTF-8 (Unicode normalized)

Domains of the Text

• Literature (Creative Writing)
• Poetry (Aesthetic and Cultural Expression)
• Folklore and Oral Tradition (Textual Form)
• Cultural Knowledge and Heritage
• Novels, Stories, and Short Stories
• Everyday Social Themes

Script Information

Eastern Balochi Script: آ ا ب پ ت ٹ ج چ د ڈ ر ز ژ س ش ک گ ل م ن و ۏ ھ ء ی ے ݔ

Dataset Structure

• Total Files: 11
• Each file represents a distinct genre or literary domain
• File names correspond directly to content
• Cleaned layer includes normalized UTF-8 text

File-Level Metadata

1. 01-Articles on Balochi Poetry-Soorat Marri-147765.txt — Articles / Poetry — 147,765 words — TXT
2. 02-Balochi FolkTales-01-132626.txt — Folklore — 132,626 words — TXT
3. 03-Balochi FolkTales-02-271639.txt — Folklore — 271,639 words — TXT
4. 04-Balochi FolkTales-02-Baloch History-43977.txt — History / Folklore — 43,977 words — TXT
5. 05-Balochi FolkTales-03-719875.txt — Folklore — 719,875 words — TXT
6. 06-Murwarid novel-110040.txt — Novel — 110,040 words — TXT
7. 07-Novel-Haji Murad-Rakhshani Dialect-199382.txt — Novel — 199,382 words — TXT
8. 08-ShortStories-8781.txt — Short Stories — 8,781 words — TXT
9. 09-Short-Stories-Aziz Bugti-149625.txt — Short Stories — 149,625 words — TXT
10. 10-Aesop's Fables by Ali Gohar - 41854.txt — Translations — 41,854 words — TXT
11. 11-Qalat by Dr Beezan - 72326.txt — Literature / History — 72,326 words — TXT

Cleaning and Processing

• UTF-8 encoding with Unicode normalization
• Removal of stray symbols and markup
• Standardized punctuation and whitespace
• Genre-based file separation preserved

Other Information and Sample Text

The corpus preserves original orthography, stylistic variation, and dialectal features. No content was shortened, altered, or modernized during processing.

Sample Text

چڑا اکرث کہ نماش چتری سر ءَپلوا یک پٹ ءِ تارے اث۔بچ ءَ پولکثہ ’’ابا اے چشوئیں پٹے۔‘‘
آبے دنتانیں پیر مرد ءَ گوں بچکندگے پسّو دات۔
چونائی ءَرجانک کاری گرانیں کاریے۔گوں گِدارُک،گِدار نویس ءَ وتی زبان ءَ انصاف ہم بوت نہ کنت بلئے پدا ہم اے یک کسانیں جُہدے۔
گڈا بادشاہ ءَکُل بلوچانی سردار لوٹائینتھو، گؤشتی کہ ’’شا بلوچ بولک اے۔‘‘
بلوچی قصّہ دی بلوچ راج ءِ کہن تریں لوزانک اِنت۔ او ایشی باروا مڑدمے گوشت نخنت کہ اے کذی جوڑینغ بیثغنت۔