Datasets:
Tasks:
Text Generation
Modalities:
Text
Formats:
parquet
Sub-tasks:
language-modeling
Size:
100K - 1M
License:
| language: | |
| - zul | |
| - sot | |
| - xho | |
| - nde | |
| - nbl | |
| - tso | |
| - tsn | |
| - nso | |
| - ssw | |
| - ven | |
| license: apache-2.0 | |
| annotations_creators: | |
| - no-annotation | |
| language_creators: | |
| - found | |
| size_categories: | |
| - 100K<n<1M | |
| source_datasets: | |
| - original | |
| task_categories: | |
| - text-generation | |
| task_ids: | |
| - language-modeling | |
| pretty_name: South African Languages Dataset | |
| tags: | |
| - south-african-languages | |
| - african-languages | |
| - indigenous-languages | |
| datasets: | |
| - HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-2 | |
| # South African Languages Dataset | |
| ## Dataset Overview | |
| | Language | Training Documents | Training GPT2 Tokens | Avg Tokens/Doc | Max Tokens | Test Documents | Test GPT2 Tokens | Test Avg Tokens/Doc | Test Max Tokens | | |
| | ---------- | -----------------: | -------------------: | -------------: | ---------: | -------------: | ---------------: | ------------------: | --------------: | | |
| | isiZulu | 116,693 | 192,622,799 | 1,650.68 | 335,530 | 687 | 1,080,961 | 1,573.45 | 15,691 | | |
| | Sesotho | 83,329 | 144,337,938 | 1,732.15 | 98,542 | 841 | 1,393,086 | 1,656.46 | 14,071 | | |
| | isiXhosa | 99,567 | 141,484,241 | 1,421.00 | 113,710 | 788 | 1,161,296 | 1,473.73 | 17,220 | | |
| | isiNdebele | 21,922 | 17,533,799 | 799.83 | 42,701 | 222 | 170,111 | 766.27 | 6,615 | | |
| | Xitsonga | 5,591 | 12,561,979 | 2,246.82 | 57,826 | 58 | 114,059 | 1,966.53 | 8,142 | | |
| | Setswana | 5,530 | 10,405,062 | 1,881.57 | 154,365 | 56 | 99,303 | 1,773.27 | 6,422 | | |
| | Sepedi | 5,180 | 9,947,520 | 1,920.37 | 25,017 | 45 | 98,001 | 2,177.80 | 8,602 | | |
| | siSwati | 1,668 | 3,148,007 | 1,887.29 | 24,129 | 17 | 29,753 | 1,750.18 | 6,682 | | |
| | Tshivenda | 3,994 | 25,756,055 | 6,448.69 | 243,593 | 35 | 60,390 | 1,725.43 | 8,272 | | |
| This dataset covers 9 of South Africa's 11 official languages (excluding English and Afrikaans) | |
| ## Dataset Structure | |
| ### Data Instances | |
| Each instance contains: | |
| - `text`: string feature containing the document text | |
| - `language`: string feature indicating the language name | |
| ### Data Fields | |
| - `text`: The text content of the document | |
| - `language`: The language of the text (one of: isiZulu, Sesotho, isiXhosa, isiNdebele, Xitsonga, Setswana, Sepedi, siSwati, Tshivenda) | |
| ### Data Splits | |
| The dataset is divided into training and test splits as shown in the table above. | |
| ## Data Source | |
| This dataset was collected from the FineWeb-2 dataset: | |
| https://huggingface.co/datasets/HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-2 | |
| ## Additional Information | |
| - **License**: Apache 2.0 | |
| - **Version**: 1.0.0 | |
| - **Collection Date**: January 2025 | |