kurdish-ai/kurdish-corpus

Kurdish Corpus

A large-scale multi-source Kurdish language dataset for training language models.

Dataset Statistics

• Total Documents: 1,797,686
• Total Tokens: 625,716,980
• Shards: 4
• Built: 2026-05-02

By Language

Language	Documents
Sorani (ckb)	1,274,425
Kurmanji (kmr)	478,540
Zazaki (diq)	34,069
Hawrami (hac)	10,652

By Source Type

Source Type	Documents
News	1,443,750
Web	229,705
Wikipedia	124,231

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

dataset = load_dataset("kurdish-ai/kurdish-corpus")

# Access the data
for example in dataset["train"]:
    print(example["text"][:100])

# Filter by language
ckb_data = dataset.filter(lambda x: x["language"] == "ckb")

# Filter by source type
news_data = dataset.filter(lambda x: x["source_type"] == "news")

# Filter by quality
high_quality = dataset.filter(lambda x: x["quality_score"] >= 80)

Schema

Field	Type	Description
text	string	Document text
source	string	Source identifier
source_type	string	Category (news, wikipedia)
language	string	Language code (ckb, kmr, diq, hac)
quality_score	int	Quality score 0-100
word_count	int	Word count
token_count	int	Estimated token count
url	string	Source URL

License

CC-BY-4.0

Citation

@dataset{kurdish_corpus_2026,
  title={Kurdish Corpus},
  author={Shahin Wahab},
  year={2026},
  publisher={Hugging Face},
  url={https://huggingface.co/datasets/kurdish-ai/kurdish-corpus}
}