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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

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

Anjuman e Katib

Anjuman-e-Katib Farsi/Persian Literature Corpus

This corpus is a collection of more than one million tokens of Farsi/Persian language. The corpus contains work of literature including novels, fictional and non-fictional, poems and many more. the data is shared with the approval of the authors and aims to support linguistic research, language technology development and its preservation.

License: CC-BY-NC-4.0

Locale: fas

Task: NLP

Format: TXT

Size: 2.82 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

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

MDC Community Concierge

VoxForge - Persian

16 minutes (157 utterances) of read speech of ‭فارسی‬ (Persian).

License: GPL-3.0

Locale: fa

Task: ASR

Format: WAV, TSV

Size: 58.20 MB

Common Voice

Common Voice Scripted Speech 26.0 - Persian

A collection of read speech recordings in Persian.

License: CC0-1.0

Locale: fa

Task: ASR

Format: MP3

Size: 10.45 GB

RFE/RL

RFE/RL Persian News Text Corpus

This dataset is a longitudinal news corpus for the Persian language sourced from Radio Farda from 2001 to 2026. It contains over 350,000 articles (51M tokens).

License: CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Locale: fa

Task: NLP

Format: TXT

Size: 307.78 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

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

MDC Curators

CoVoST 2 Persian - English

The dataset includes audio files in Persian and their translations in English.

License: CC-BY-NC-4.0

Locale: fa, en

Task: MT

Format: MP3, TSV

Size: 1.52 GB

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

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

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

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

MDC DatasetsCompensated

🚧 Hazargi-English Parallel Text Corpus 🚧

A Hazargi-English parallel corpus derived from transcribed and translated video recordings

License: MDC DLA-1.0

Locale: haz, en

Task: MT

Format: TSV

Size: 434.04 KB

MDC Curators

CoVoST 2 English - Persian

The dataset includes audio files in English and their translations in Persian.

License: CC-BY-NC-4.0

Locale: en, fa

Task: MT

Format: MP3, TSV

Size: 12.56 GB

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

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

MirasAI

Associated Press Pakistan 10.4 Million Saraiki Corpus

A 10.4-million-word Saraiki news corpus from Associated Press of Pakistan, covering 2016–2026 for non-commercial Saraiki NLP research.

License: CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Locale: skr

Task: NLP

Format: TXT

Size: 19.51 MB

Common Voice

Common Voice Scripted Speech 26.0 - Pashto

A collection of read speech recordings in Pashto.

License: CC0-1.0

Locale: ps

Task: ASR

Format: MP3

Size: 101.84 GB

Community

Persian VOA Corpus 2003-2008

Persian (Farsi) VOA news articles 2003-2008, in original UTF-8 Perso-Arabic script, 7.9 million words, license: public domain.

License: Unlicense

Locale: fa

Task: NLP

Format: TXT

Size: 17.16 MB

Kaleem Art Press

Saraiki-English Parallel Corpus

English–Saraiki parallel corpus: 51,447 aligned sentence pairs (~0.89M words), translated by Kaleem Art Press for MT and Saraiki NLP research.

License: CC-BY-NC-4.0

Locale: mul

Task: MT

Format: CSV

Size: 1.92 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

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Dari Literature Corpus by Anjuman e Adabi Nayestan

Persian Literature Corpus by Najwai Sukhan

Anjuman-e-Katib Farsi/Persian Literature Corpus

Associated Press Pakistan 21.4 Million Pashto Corpus

Elkhani Hazargi Literature Corpus

VoxForge - Persian

Common Voice Scripted Speech 26.0 - Persian

RFE/RL Persian News Text Corpus

Associated Press Pakistan 74.4 Million Urdu Corpus

Hussain Faizy Indus Kohistani Corpus

CoVoST 2 Persian - English

Keblagh-e-Azergi Hazargi literature corpus

🚧 Khowar-English Parallel Corpus 🚧

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

Multilingual Religious Parallel Corpus (Kaleem Art Press)

🚧 Hazargi-English Parallel Text Corpus 🚧

CoVoST 2 English - Persian

Balochi Academy Text Corpus

Gawri (گاؤری) Magazine Corpus

Associated Press Pakistan 10.4 Million Saraiki Corpus

Common Voice Scripted Speech 26.0 - Pashto

Persian VOA Corpus 2003-2008

Saraiki-English Parallel Corpus

Wakhi Literature Corpus