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Release Date: 4/17/2026
Format: TXT
Size: 3.68 MB
The Rangpuri (অংপুরি Ôṅgpuri) Text Corpus is a professionally curated collection of approximately 501,500 tokens representing the linguistic and cultural heritage of the Rangpur Division in Bangladesh and neighboring regions. The dataset includes a diverse range of genres such as poetry, folklore, and drama scripts, bringing together everyday social themes, cultural expressions, and oral traditions in one resource. It is provided in original .docx documents and plain text files. This corpus is a valuable resource for researchers working on the Kamta group of languages and for the development of computational tools for low-resource Indo-Aryan varieties.
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 exclusively for non-commercial research, academic inquiry, and scientific purposes and must not be used for commercial distribution.
Forbidden Usage
You agree not to attempt to identify any individuals represented in the text and any commercial redistribution or the use of this data to train harmful or deceptive models is strictly prohibited.
Ethical Review
The data for every individual file in this corpus was acquired and compiled following the procurement of explicit informed consent from the original authors via the coordinating publishing agency.
Intended Use
This dataset is designed to facilitate Natural Language Processing (NLP) research and the development of linguistic tools for the Rangpuri language.
Rangpuri (অংপুরি or অমপুরি), also commonly known as Bahe, Deshi bhasha, or Anchalit bhasha, is an Eastern Indo-Aryan language of the Bengali-Assamese branch. It is spoken across the Rangpur Division in Bangladesh, northern West Bengal, and western Goalpara in Assam, India. According to Glottolog, it forms the Central-Eastern Kamta group alongside the Kamta language, Rajbanshi, and Surjapuri. Many speakers are bilingual in Bengali or Assamese depending on their respective regions.
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, য়, ৎ, ং, ঃ, ঁ
The dataset is organized into two primary directories:
Rezamahi Publishing Agency, Rajshahi, Bangladesh.
