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Bismillah Graphics Publishers

Urdu Literature Corpus

This corpus contains 16,17,074 tokens of multiple Urdu literature books published by Bismillah Graphics Publishers.

License: CC-BY-NC-4.0

Locale: ur

Task: OTH

Format: TXT

Size: 2.86 MB

Weekly Kaleem Magazine Multan

Kaleem Magazine Urdu Corpus

This corpus is a collection of around 1.4 million tokens of Urdu language. The data was extracted from the archives of a famous Urdu magazine "Kaleem" published weekly from last 30 years. This corpus contains work of literature including stories, short stories, news, poetry, literary reports, fiction, non-fiction, and travelogues. The data is being shared with the approval of the authors. It aims to support linguistic research, language technology development, and cultural preservation.

License: CC-BY-NC-4.0

Locale: urd

Task: NLP

Format: TXT

Size: 2.74 MB

Rana Printers Multan

Rana Printers Urdu Literature Corpus

This corpus comprises 1.68 million tokens of high-quality Urdu text collected over the past decade through Rana Printers. It includes a diverse range of literary genres such as stories, short stories, novels, fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and historical works. All content is shared with the authors’ approval. The dataset is intended to support linguistic research, Urdu language technology development, and the preservation of literary and cultural heritage.

License: CC-BY-NC-4.0

Locale: ur

Task: OTH

Format: TXT

Size: 3.00 MB

Kaleem Art Press

Kaleem Art Press Urdu Literature Corpus

This corpus is a collection of 1.44 million tokens of Urdu language . The data was produced under the Kaleem Art Press over the last fifteen years . The corpus contains work of literature including Stories, Short Stories, Novels, fiction, non-fiction, Travelogues, Poetry, Biography, and History. The data is being shared with the approval of the authors. It aims to support linguistic research, language technology development, and cultural preservation.

License: CC-BY-NC-4.0

Locale: ur

Task: OTH

Format: TXT

Size: 2.85 MB

MirasAI

Associated Press Pakistan 74.4 Million Urdu Corpus

A 74.4M-word, 267,887-article Urdu news corpus from Associated Press Pakistan (2015-2026), released for non-commercial research with APP permission.

License: CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Locale: urd

Task: NLP

Format: TXT

Size: 143.39 MB

MirasAI

Associated Press Pakistan 21.4 Million Pashto Corpus

Pashto news corpus from the Associated Press of Pakistan, containing 99,495 articles and 21.4 million words from 2015–2026.

License: CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Locale: pus

Task: NLP

Format: TXT

Size: 38.81 MB

Kaleem Art Press

Jhoke Publisher Multan’s Saraiki Newspaper Corpus

Jhoke Publisher Multan’s Saraiki Newspaper Corpus (~1.25M tokens) is a normalized UTF-8 collection of Saraiki newspaper.

License: CC-BY-NC-4.0

Locale: skr

Task: NLP

Format: TXT

Size: 2.30 MB

Kaleem Art Press

Multilingual Religious Parallel Corpus (Kaleem Art Press)

This dataset is a multilingual parallel sentences corpus containing 6,465 aligned sentence units with approximately 0.98 million words, curated from Kaleem Art Press archives. It includes parallel religious text data in Arabic, Urdu, Saraiki (standard and dialectal), Punjabi (Shahmukhi), and English, supporting research in machine translation, comparative linguistics, digital humanities, and low-resource language studies.

License: CC-BY-SA-4.0

Locale: mul

Task: MT

Format: CSV

Size: 2.27 MB

Anjuman e Katib

Persian Literature Corpus by Najwai Sukhan

A curated Persian literary corpus of ~1.26M tokens spanning literature, poetry, educational writing, and culturally significant texts.

License: CC-BY-NC-4.0

Locale: fas

Task: NLP

Format: TXT

Size: 38.62 MB

MEDIAMEN

English–Punjabi (Shahmukhi) Parallel Sentences Corpus (Mediamen Archives)

This parallel sentences corpus containing 30,405 aligned sentence pairs with a total of approximately 0.62 million tokens, curated from the archival materials of Mediamen (Advertising Agency). The sentences were professionally translated from English into Punjabi (Shahmukhi) and are intended to support machine translation, linguistic research, and Punjabi language technology development, particularly for real-world and contemporary language use.

License: CC-BY-NC-4.0

Locale: en-PK, pnb

Task: MT

Format: CSV

Size: 1.08 MB

Chishti Sons

Chishti Sons Punjabi Literature Corpus

This corpus is a collection of more than one million tokens of Western Punjabi language. The data was produced under the Chishti Sons publishing agency. The corpus contains work of literature including short stories, stories, fiction, non-fiction, and other literary books. The data is being shared with the approval of the authors. It aims to support linguistic research, language technology development, and cultural preservation.

License: CC-BY-NC-4.0

Locale: pnb

Task: NLP

Format: TXT

Size: 1.65 MB

Balochistan Educational and Cultural Organization

NAWA-E-WATAN Balochi Newspaper Corpus

A ~1.02M-token Balochi newspaper corpus from NAWA-E-WATAN, representing contemporary journalistic and public discourse.

License: CC-BY-NC-4.0

Locale: bgn

Task: NLP

Format: TXT

Size: 1.43 MB

Common Voice

Common Voice Scripted Speech 26.0 - Urdu

A collection of read speech recordings in Urdu.

License: CC0-1.0

Locale: ur

Task: ASR

Format: MP3

Size: 5.79 GB

Collaborative Action For Research & Development (CARD)

Gawri (گاؤری) Magazine Corpus

The Gawri (گاؤری) Magazine Corpus is a curated collection of monthly Gawri magazine text (~67,724 tokens) that supports research and language technology.

License: CC-BY-NC-4.0

Locale: gwc

Task: NLP

Format: TXT

Size: 146.71 KB

Aim Foundation

Dari Literature Corpus by Anjuman e Adabi Nayestan

A ~1 M-token Dari (Afghan Persian) literary corpus compiled by Anjuman e Adabi Nayestan, covering prose, poetry, and cultural texts in Perso-Arabic script.

License: CC-BY-NC-4.0

Locale: prs

Task: NLP

Format: TXT

Size: 12.67 MB

Keblagh e Azergi

Elkhani Hazargi Literature Corpus

Hazargi literary corpus (~0.5M tokens) of poetry, folklore, and prose texts representing Hazara linguistic and cultural heritage.

License: CC-BY-NC-4.0

Locale: haz

Task: NLP

Format: TXT

Size: 2.46 MB

MEDIAMEN

Mediamen Punjabi Literature Corpus

This corpus is a collection of one million tokens of Western Punjabi language. The data was produced under the Mediamen publishing agency over the last ten years. The corpus contains work of literature including short stories, novels, fiction, non-fiction, and dramas. The data is being shared with the approval of the authors. It aims to support linguistic research, language technology development, and cultural preservation.

License: CC-BY-NC-4.0

Locale: pnb

Task: NLP

Format: TXT

Size: 1.82 MB

Community

Urdu Multi-Speaker TTS Dataset

An Urdu multi-speaker TTS dataset distributed in 36 zip files, each containing audio files and a TSV mapping file, with approximately 10 hours of speech.

License: CC-BY-NC-4.0

Locale: urd

Task: TTS

Format: WEBM, TSV

Size: 514.54 MB

PROXIMA

Synthetic Urdu 2

Synthetic Urdu sentences audio dataset of 85,327 verse style audio-text pairs.

License: CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Locale: urd

Task: TTS

Format: Parquet

Size: 14.80 GB

PROXIMA

PII Redact Urdu UOPF

Curated Urdu dataset of 100,000 records with fabricated PII spans, for training and evaluating privacy span detection across 12 domains.

License: CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Locale: urd

Task: NLP

Format: JSONL

Size: 5.77 MB

Keblagh e Azergi

Keblagh-e-Azergi Hazargi literature corpus

This corpus is a collection of more than one hundred thousand tokens of Hazargi language. The corpus contains work of literature, poems, folk and short stories and dramas. The data is being shared with the approval of the authors. It claims to support linguistic research, language technology development and cultural preservation.

License: CC-BY-NC-4.0

Locale: haz

Task: NLP

Format: TXT

Size: 193.28 KB

Jazab Publishers

Jazab Sindhi Newspaper Corpus

The corpus contains 1.07 million tokens from the Jazab a Sindhi Newspaper published from the year 2023-2025. The text consists of the complete newspaper content including headlines, editorials, finance news and advertisements. The newspaper published in Karachi, Pakistan on daily basis.

License: CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Locale: snd

Task: NLP

Format: TXT

Size: 2.33 MB

Sindh Sujag Newspaper Agency

Sindh Sujag Newspaper Corpus

The corpus contains approximately 1.2 million tokens from the Sindh Sujag Newspaper Agency published between 2024 and 2025. It includes complete newspaper content such as headlines, editorials, finance news, and advertisements. The newspaper is published daily in Karachi, Pakistan, and represents a comprehensive collection of contemporary Sindhi journalistic writing.

License: CC-BY-4.0

Locale: snd

Task: NLP

Format: TXT

Size: 2.63 MB

Balochistan Educational and Cultural Organization

Western Balochi Literature Cropus

A cleaned literary corpus in Western Balochi (Rakhshani) including articles, research, translations, and creative literature. (~1.1 m tokens)

License: CC-BY-NC-4.0

Locale: bgn

Task: NLP

Format: TXT

Size: 2.26 MB

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Urdu Literature Corpus

Kaleem Magazine Urdu Corpus

Rana Printers Urdu Literature Corpus

Kaleem Art Press Urdu Literature Corpus

Associated Press Pakistan 74.4 Million Urdu Corpus

Associated Press Pakistan 21.4 Million Pashto Corpus

Jhoke Publisher Multan’s Saraiki Newspaper Corpus

Multilingual Religious Parallel Corpus (Kaleem Art Press)

Persian Literature Corpus by Najwai Sukhan

English–Punjabi (Shahmukhi) Parallel Sentences Corpus (Mediamen Archives)

Chishti Sons Punjabi Literature Corpus

NAWA-E-WATAN Balochi Newspaper Corpus

Common Voice Scripted Speech 26.0 - Urdu

Gawri (گاؤری) Magazine Corpus

Dari Literature Corpus by Anjuman e Adabi Nayestan

Elkhani Hazargi Literature Corpus

Mediamen Punjabi Literature Corpus

Urdu Multi-Speaker TTS Dataset

Synthetic Urdu 2

PII Redact Urdu UOPF

Keblagh-e-Azergi Hazargi literature corpus

Jazab Sindhi Newspaper Corpus

Sindh Sujag Newspaper Corpus

Western Balochi Literature Cropus