Datasets:

shnyakov
/

nenets

license: mit
language:
  - ru
tags:
  - nenets
  - low-resource
  - parallel-corpus
  - machine-translation
  - nlp
  - uralic
  - endangered-language
task_categories:
  - translation
  - text-generation

Nenets Language Datasets

📂 Source code on GitHub

Abstract:
The Nenets Language Datasets project provides parallel and monolingual corpora for Tundra and Forest Nenets.
The dataset supports research in machine translation, morphological analysis, and language modeling under low-resource conditions.

Описание проекта

Nenets Language Datasets — это собрание параллельных и монолингвальных корпусов для изучения и обработки ненецкого языка (тундровый и лесной).
Корпуса включают тексты из фольклора, газетных публикаций и социальных сетей.
Проект направлен на создание открытой лингвистической базы для задач машинного перевода, морфологического анализа и языкового моделирования в условиях ограниченных данных.

Motivation / Мотивация

The Nenets language belongs to the Samoyedic branch of the Uralic language family and is considered low-resource and endangered.
This dataset aims to support:

development of neural Nenets–Russian MT systems;
training of language models for low-resource languages;
morphological and syntactic analysis tasks;
documentation and preservation of Arctic indigenous linguistic heritage.

Dataset Composition / Состав корпуса

Tundra Nenets language / Тундровый ненецкий язык

File	Description	Language(s)	Size
`parallel_corpus_tales_yangasova.csv`	Parallel corpus of Nenets fairy tales Ненецие” лаханако” with Russian translations (N.M. Yangasova collection, 2007).	Nenets ↔ Russian	3,114 pairs
`articles_nvinder.csv`	News articles from Няръяна Вындер (nvinder.ru), sentence-aligned.	Nenets ↔ Russian	286 pairs

Forest Nenets language / Лесной ненецкий язык

File	Description	Language(s)	Size
`nn_yanao_posts.csv`	Posts from Няръяна Нгэрм VK community (vk.com/nn.yanao).	Nenets, Russian	1,915 posts
`nn_yanao_posts_2.csv`	Posts from «Няръяна Нгэрм». Пишем на лесном диалекте VK community (vk.com/club173849556).	Nenets, Russian	409 posts
`articles_yamal_expedition.csv`	Ethnographic texts from the project Real People (yamalexpedition.ru/nen/blog-nen).	Nenets	42 articles
`articles_yamal_expedition_2.csv`	Ethnographic texts from Хойняна тохолкова (yamalexpedition.ru/nen/education-for-nomads-nen).	Nenets	5 articles

Data Processing and Curation / Обработка данных

Manual sentence alignment for all parallel sets.
Orthographic normalization and conversion to unified Cyrillic script.

For preprocessing scripts and alignment tools, see GitHub repository.

Use Cases / Применение

Machine Translation (MT) Nenets ↔ Russian
Language Modeling (LM) for low-resource languages
Morphological segmentation and POS tagging
Dialect identification and variation analysis
Digital humanities and sociolinguistic research

License and Attribution

The dataset is released under the MIT License.
All text materials are used for research and educational purposes only.
When using or redistributing this dataset, please cite the original sources where applicable.

Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite:

@misc{pavel_shnyakov_2025,
    author       = { Pavel Shnyakov },
    title        = { nenets (Revision 653275c) },
    year         = 2025,
    url          = { https://huggingface.co/datasets/shnyakov/nenets },
    doi          = { 10.57967/hf/6728 },
    publisher    = { Hugging Face }
}