Nepali-Flow-Formal

What's This?

This dataset has formal Nepali writing—the kind you'd find in news articles, encyclopedias, and research papers. Good for training language models on clear, well-written Nepali.

What's Inside

6,735,808 rows from three places:

• IRIISNEPAL dataset (MIT license)
• Nepali Wikipedia
• Nepali news outlets (Kantipur, Setopati, etc.)

Mostly in Devanagari script. Formal writing—no slang or memes.

Schema

• text
• source
• domain
• script
• lang
• date_collected
• license

Notes:

• domain values include formal, encyclopedia, and news
• script is predominantly devanagari

Construction Notes

• Source material is normalized to text rows.
• Duplicate and malformed records are reduced during preprocessing.
• Metadata is preserved to enable source-aware and license-aware filtering.

Good For

• Training language models on formal Nepali
• News classification and topic modeling
• Tasks where proper grammar matters
• Understanding how formal Nepali differs from casual speech

Fair Warnings

• Mostly news articles—might not help with casual speech understanding
• Some articles lean toward specific outlets' editorial styles
• A few random formatting hiccups might be hiding in there

License Statement

Mixed-source formal aggregate:

• MIT (IRIISNEPAL)
• CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikipedia)
• source-dependent (scraped news)

How to Cite

If you use this in research, cite it like:

Aadarsha Chhetri. (2026). Nepali-Flow-Formal. https://huggingface.co/datasets/Boredoom17/Nepali-Flow-Formal

Or in BibTeX:

@dataset{aadarsha2026formal,
  author = {Aadarsha Chhetri},
  title = {Nepali-Flow-Formal},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/Boredoom17/Nepali-Flow-Formal}
}