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Forum for Language Initiatives

Gojri Literature Corpus

A curated Gojri (Gujari) text corpus of approximately 60K tokens covering poetry, stories, short stories, and literary prose.

License: CC-BY-NC-4.0

Locale: gju

Task: NLP

Format: TXT

Size: 117.97 KB

Forum for Language Initiatives

Khowar Literature Corpus by FLI

A multi-genre Khowar language corpus designed for linguistic research, NLP applications, and cultural documentation.

License: CC-BY-NC-4.0

Locale: khw

Task: NLP

Format: TXT

Size: 244.85 KB

Balochi Academy

Balochi Academy Text Corpus

This corpus contains approximately 500k tokens of text from novels, poetry, articles, riddles, and proverbs, covering both literary and traditional genres. It is intended for linguistic research, NLP tasks (e.g., language modeling and text analysis), and cultural documentation.

License: CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Locale: bgn

Task: NLP

Format: TXT

Size: 1.88 MB

MirasAI

Ormuri Literature corpus by Rozi Burki

Ormuri Literature Corpus is a collection of Ormuri literary texts by Rozi Burki, supporting research and preservation of this under-resourced language.

License: CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Locale: oru

Task: NLP

Format: PDF, DOCX

Size: 18.92 MB

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

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

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

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

Balochi Academy

Eastern Balochi Literature Corpus

A UTF-8 normalized Eastern Balochi literature corpus (~1.9M tokens) covering poetry, folklore, novels, and cultural texts for linguistic research and NLP.

License: CC-BY-NC-4.0

Locale: bgp

Task: NLP

Format: TXT

Size: 949.67 KB

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

Baloch Publishers Multan

Baloch Publishers Saraiki Literature Corpus

This corpus is a collection of one million tokens of Saraiki language. The data was produced under the Baloch Publishers over the last ten years. The corpus contains work of literature including dictionaries, short stories, novels, fiction, non-fiction, and travelogue. 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: skr

Task: NLP

Format: TXT

Size: 2.04 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

Forum for Language Initiatives

Hussain Faizy Indus Kohistani Corpus

The Indus Kohistani corpus contains around 500k tokens of folktales, stories, poetry, biographies, and conversational texts, all transcribed with a consistent community orthography. Reviewed by native speakers, the corpus offers a representative snapshot of the language’s vocabulary and grammar for linguistic and computational research.

License: CC-BY-SA-4.0

Locale: mvy

Task: NLP

Format: TXT

Size: 14.70 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

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

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

MirasAI

Wakhi Literature Corpus

A literature corpus of Wakhi language texts, preserving the language’s literary, cultural, and linguistic heritage for research and low-resource NLP.

License: CC-BY-ND-4.0

Locale: wbl

Task: NLP

Format: DOCX, TXT

Size: 74.83 KB

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

Collaborative Action For Research & Development (CARD)

IBT Torwali Literature Corpus

A Torwali literature corpus (~233K tokens) covering poetry, folklore, biographies, and cultural texts for linguistic research and NLP development.

License: CC-BY-NC-4.0

Locale: trw

Task: NLP

Format: TXT

Size: 488.12 KB

Aim Foundation

Aim Foundation Dari Literature Corpus

This corpus is a collection of more than seven hundred thousand tokens of Dari language. The corpus contains work of literature including poems, stories, novels, fictional and non-fictional and different articles. 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: prs

Task: NLP

Format: TXT

Size: 1.74 MB

Common Voice

Common Voice Scripted Speech 26.0 - Gujari

A collection of read speech recordings in Gujari.

License: CC0-1.0

Locale: gju

Task: ASR

Format: MP3

Size: 210.21 MB

MDC DatasetsCompensated

🚧 Khowar-English Parallel Corpus 🚧

A parallel corpus of over 10,000 sentences of Khowar and English. The sentences are derived from a multimodal corpus consisting of 152 transcribed and translated Khowar language videos.

License: MDC DLA-1.0

Locale: khw, en

Task: MT

Format: TSV

Size: 407.57 KB

MirasAI

Rangpuri (অংপুরি Ôṅgpuri) Text Corpus

A 500K token corpus of Rangpuri literature and drama provided in UTF-8 format for linguistic research and NLP development.

License: CC-BY-NC-4.0

Locale: rkt

Task: NLP

Format: TXT

Size: 3.68 MB

Kaleem Art Press

Kaleem Art Press Saraiki Literature Corpus

This corpus contains approximately one million tokens of Saraiki text curated over the past ten years by Kaleem Art Press. It features a wide range of literary genres, including stories, short stories, novels, fiction, non-fiction, travelogues, poetry, biographies, and historical writings. All content is shared with full author approval. The dataset is intended to support linguistic research, Saraiki language technology development, and the preservation of cultural and literary heritage.

License: CC-BY-NC-4.0

Locale: skr

Task: OTH

Format: TXT

Size: 1.84 MB

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Gojri Literature Corpus

Khowar Literature Corpus by FLI

Balochi Academy Text Corpus

Ormuri Literature corpus by Rozi Burki

Gawri (گاؤری) Magazine Corpus

Western Balochi Literature Cropus

Persian Literature Corpus by Najwai Sukhan

Dari Literature Corpus by Anjuman e Adabi Nayestan

Eastern Balochi Literature Corpus

Elkhani Hazargi Literature Corpus

Baloch Publishers Saraiki Literature Corpus

Chishti Sons Punjabi Literature Corpus

Hussain Faizy Indus Kohistani Corpus

Kaleem Art Press Urdu Literature Corpus

Rana Printers Urdu Literature Corpus

Urdu Literature Corpus

Wakhi Literature Corpus

Keblagh-e-Azergi Hazargi literature corpus

IBT Torwali Literature Corpus

Aim Foundation Dari Literature Corpus

Common Voice Scripted Speech 26.0 - Gujari

🚧 Khowar-English Parallel Corpus 🚧

Rangpuri (অংপুরি Ôṅgpuri) Text Corpus

Kaleem Art Press Saraiki Literature Corpus