Xahitya Assamese Corpus

A large-scale Assamese literary text corpus scraped from Xahitya.org, containing Assamese prose, essays, stories, poems, and other long-form literary writings.

This dataset is intended for:

• Assamese NLP research
• Language model pretraining
• Tokenizer training
• Text generation
• Linguistic analysis
• Low-resource language AI research

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Dataset Structure

The dataset currently contains:

xahitya_dump/
├── articles.jsonl
└── corpus.txt

Files

articles.jsonl

Structured JSON Lines dataset.

Each line contains:

{
  "url": "...",
  "title": "...",
  "date": "...",
  "source": "html/wp-rest",
  "text": "..."
}

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corpus.txt

Plain-text corpus version intended for:

• tokenizer training
• language model pretraining
• raw corpus processing pipelines

The file contains cleaned Assamese literary text extracted from the website.

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Source

Primary source:

• https://xahitya.org

Xahitya.org is a well-known Assamese e-literature platform containing:

• stories
• essays
• poems
• interviews
• serialized writings
• literary articles

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Data Collection

The dataset was collected using a custom Python scraper with:

• WordPress API extraction
• HTML parsing fallback
• text cleaning
• duplicate filtering
• Unicode normalization

The scraping pipeline removes:

• HTML markup
• navigation text
• scripts/styles
• duplicated content
• unnecessary formatting artifacts

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Language

• Assamese (as)
• Script: Bengali-Assamese script

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Intended Use

This dataset is designed for:

• pretraining Assamese language models
• tokenizer development
• linguistic research
• educational and research purposes

Possible applications:

• LLM pretraining
• SLM training
• text generation
• embeddings
• language understanding systems

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License

It is fully open and freely available for: - commercial use - research use - educational use - modification - redistribution ### use it as want

Disclaimer

This dataset was automatically collected from publicly accessible web pages.

All original content rights belong to their respective authors and publishers.

If you are a rights holder and want content removed, please open an issue or contact the repository owner.

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Citation

@dataset{xahitya_assamese_corpus,
  title={Xahitya Assamese Corpus},
  author={Ranjit89},
  year={2026},
  publisher={Hugging Face}
}

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Acknowledgements

Special thanks to:

• the Assamese literary community
• contributors of Xahitya.org
• open-source NLP ecosystems
• Hugging Face

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Repository

Hugging Face Dataset Repository:

https://huggingface.co/datasets/Ranjit89/xahitya-assamese-corpus