---
license: mit
language:
  - my
tags:
  - Myanmar
  - Burmese
  - Lexicon
  - Subword
  - Wiktionary
  - Tokenization
  - Dictionary
  - Unicode
pretty_name: Myanmar Wiktionary Words
task_categories:
  - text-classification
---

# 📚 Myanmar Wiktionary Words

A high-quality dataset of over **26,000 Myanmar (Burmese) words** scraped from [my.wiktionary.org](https://my.wiktionary.org), enriched with subword-level segmentation. This dataset is intended for use in lexical modeling, NLP tokenization tasks, and morphological analysis of the Myanmar language.

---

## ✨ Dataset Highlights
```
- ✅ **26K+ Myanmar lexical entries**, sourced from online Wiktionary
- 🧱 **Subword segmentation** included for each word using intelligent Python rules
- 🧼 **Manual curation** to correct common Myanmar typographic issues (e.g., `န့` → `န့်`)
- 🔡 **Preserved** numeric and punctuation entries (e.g., `0–9`, `။`, `၊`) due to their semantic and grammatical importance
- 🧹 **Filtered out** isolated diacritics such as `ါ`, `ာ`, `ိ`, `ု`, etc., which carry no meaning on their own when detached
```
---

## 📦 File Format

- **File**: `my_wikitionary.csv`
- **Encoding**: UTF-8
- **Fields**:
  - `my_word`: the full Myanmar lexical item
  - `my_subword`: a space-separated list of quoted subwords (e.g., `"xxx" "yyy"`)

### 📋 Example Rows
```
| my_word     | my_subword              |
|------------|--------------------------|
| ဧတဒဂ်      | "ဧ" "တ" "ဒဂ်"           |
| ကကဏ္ဋက    | "က" "ကဏ္ဋ" "က"         |
| ၅          | "၅"                      |
| ။         | "။" (Myanmar full stop)   |
```
---

## 🧠 Construction Process

1. **Data Source**: Scraped systematically from the `my.wiktionary.org` interface.
2. **Unicode Normalization**: Normalized all entries to NFC form for consistency.
3. **Subword Tokenization**: Employed rule-based segmentation to split compounds, prefixes, and suffixes.
4. **Manual Corrections**:
   - Fixed corrupted forms like `န့`, `င့်`, `မ့်`, `ည့်`
   - Preserved meaningful characters like `။` (Myanmar full stop), `၊` (comma), and numerals (`၀–၉`)
   - Removed meaningless standalone signs like `ါ`, `ာ`, `ိ`, `ု` which do not function as words

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## 📊 Applications
```
- 📖 Myanmar language lexicon building
- ✂️ Subword tokenization model training
- 🧪 Morphological parsing and grammar analysis
- 🔤 Dictionary and spell-checker development
- 🤖 Preprocessing pipelines for Burmese NLP tasks
```
---

## 📁 File Statistics
```
- Entries: ~26,000+
- Fields: `my_word`, `my_subword`
- Format: Clean UTF-8 CSV
```
---

## 🙏 Acknowledgments

This project would not be possible without the collective care and wisdom of those who came before.

✨ While I applied only limited effort to clean and organize this dataset, **all credit belongs to the tireless souls of Wiktionary**—especially the great and compassionate contributors who gave countless unpaid hours to preserve and document their language.

**Wiktionary**, like its sister project Wikipedia, was launched by the **Wikimedia Foundation** in 2002—not by any single founder, but as a bold invitation to all. Proposed by **Daniel Alston** and technically supported early on by **Brion Vibber**, it has grown entirely thanks to a global community of volunteers.

These anonymous and often unsung contributors—linguists, students, monks, migrants, hobbyists—quietly type and revise, not for reward, but out of love for their language and a hope that it may be known, spoken, and lived.

> Their invisible labor is a gift. A monument built stone by stone, not by one sculptor, but by thousands of hands.

- 🧭 Source: [my.wiktionary.org](https://my.wiktionary.org)
- 💻 Python processing and validation by Myanmar language researchers
- ❤️ Eternal gratitude to Wiktionary’s volunteers who help languages live on, one entry at a time
```
> _“May the value of their invisible work echo far beyond the lines of code we wrap it in.”_ 🕊️
```
---

## 🔓 License
```
Distributed under the **MIT License** – free to use, modify, and distribute with attribution.
```
---

## 💬 Citation
``
```bibtex
@dataset{freococo2025myanmarwikitionary,
  title     = {Myanmar Wikitionary Words},
  author    = {freococo},
  year      = {2025},
  url       = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/freococo/myanmar_wikitionary_words},
  note      = {Version 1.0, Hugging Face Datasets}
}
```