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Kaler KonthoDataset ID:
cmnxhzcgy0094nu07arwxhq53
Release Date: 4/13/2026
Format: DOCX
Size: 33.11 MB
The Kaler Kantho Bengali Newspaper Corpus is a large-scale text dataset containing over 10 million tokens collected from the digital archives of Kaler Kantho, a major daily newspaper in Bangladesh. It represents modern Bengali journalistic writing across domains such as national politics, international affairs, social issues, and cultural content.
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 intended for research, educational, and non-commercial use only.
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This dataset is not for commercial purposes and is only for research and educational purposes.
Ethical Review
Data was ethically sourced from public journalistic archives for linguistic research purposes.
Intended Use
This dataset is intended for Natural Language Processing (NLP) of the Bengali language.
Bengali (বাংলা), also known as Bangla, is a classical Indo-Aryan language primarily spoken in the Bengal region of South Asia. With over 242 million native speakers as of 2025, it ranks as the sixth most spoken native language in the world. It is the official and national language of Bangladesh and holds official status in several Indian states, including West Bengal and Tripura. Bengali was officially accorded the status of a classical language in 2024, honoring its rich millennium-old literary history and its role in the historic Bengali Language Movement.
অ আ ই ঈ উ ঊ ঋ এ ঐ ও ঔ ক খ গ ঘ ঙ চ ছ জ ঝ ঞ ট ঠ ড ঢ ণ ত থ দ ধ ন প ফ ব ভ ম য র ল শ ষ স হ ড় ঢ় য়ৎ ং ঃ ঁ