Datasets:

DatarrX
/

burmese-only-wiki

license: cc-by-4.0
task_categories:
  - text-generation
  - fill-mask
  - token-classification
language:
  - my
tags:
  - burmese
  - wikipedia
  - nlp
  - dataset
  - low-resource
  - monolingual

Burmese Only Wiki Dataset

This dataset is a refined, high-precision monolingual collection derived from the DatarrX/myanmar-Wikipedia repository. It has been strictly filtered to ensure that every sentence contains exclusively Burmese characters, making it an ideal resource for language modeling, sequence-to-sequence tasks, and linguistic research where cross-lingual noise must be eliminated.

🏛️ About DatarrX

DatarrX (Burmese: ဒေတာအက်စ်) is a non-profit open-source foundation dedicated to building a robust digital foundation for the Burmese language in the AI era. We believe that high-quality data is the core of AI innovation. Our mission is to empower the Burmese AI ecosystem by building high-quality open-source datasets, essential AI tools, and localized technical resources.

🏗️ Creation & Curation Process

To create this "Burmese-only" subset, we implemented a rigorous linguistic filtration pipeline:

Source Extraction: Data was pulled from the processed myanmar-Wikipedia dataset, ensuring a consistent starting point.
Linguistic Purity Filtering: We applied a strict Unicode-range filter (specifically targeting Burmese script blocks \u1000-\u109F) to detect and exclude sentences containing English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, or other non-Burmese characters.
Symbol & Artifact Cleansing: * Removed redundant formatting characters and markup residue ('''''', ||, ##).
- Eliminated incomplete punctuation artifacts and empty parenthetical groups.
Structural Normalization: Enforced sentence-ending consistency by ensuring every sentence concludes with the standard Burmese full-stop (။).
Syllable Tokenization: Every sentence was passed through the mm-syllable breaker, with a validation layer to remove invalid syllable combinations, ensuring the integrity of the secondary syllable column.

📊 Dataset Statistics

Total Sentences: 353,267
Average Sentence Length: 106.49 characters
Average Syllable Count: 33.84
Structural Consistency: 99.99% of sentences end with the standard Burmese full-stop (။).

Data Structure

Column	Description
`text`	The clean, purely Burmese sentence.
`syllable`	The same sentence segmented into syllables with spaces.

Sample Entry:

{
  "text": "ဝီကီဟု ခေါ်သော ဝက်ဘ်ဆိုက် ပုံစံတစ်မျိုးကို အသုံးပြု၍ ပူးပေါင်းရေးသားခြင်းကို အဆင်ပြေစေရန် စီမံထားခြင်း ဖြစ်ပါသည်။",
  "syllable": "ဝီ ကီ ဟု ခေါ် သော ဝက်ဘ် ဆိုက် ပုံ စံ တစ် မျိုး ကို အ သုံး ပြု ၍ ပူး ပေါင်း ရေး သား ခြင်း ကို အ ဆင် ပြေ စေ ရန် စီ မံ ထား ခြင်း ဖြစ် ပါ သည် ။",
  "text_len": 113,
  "syllable_count": 35
}

👨‍💻 Creator & Contributors

This dataset is curated and maintained by Khant Sint Heinn (Burmese: ခန့်ဆင့်ဟိဏ်း, Kalix Louis).

Khant Sint Heinn is a Machine Learning Engineer specializing in NLP and open-source AI development. As the Lead Developer at DatarrX, he focuses on building scalable data pipelines and practical infrastructure to improve support for low-resource languages. His work aims to transform limited language resources into practical opportunities through clean data and community-driven innovation.

⚖️ License & Citation

This work is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0) license.

If you utilize this dataset in your work, please cite as:

@misc{datarrx_burmese_only_2026,
  author       = {Khant Sint Heinn},
  title        = {Burmese Only Wiki Dataset},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Hugging Face},
  organization = {DatarrX},
  howpublished = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/DatarrX/myanmar-Wikipedia},
  note         = {Published under DatarrX. Open-source community asset released under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)}
}