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language:
- zul
- xho
- nbl
- ssw
license: apache-2.0
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pretty_name: South African Nguni Languages Dataset
tags:
- south-african-languages
- african-languages
- indigenous-languages
- nguni-languages
datasets:
- HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-2
---
# South African Nguni Languages Dataset
## Dataset Overview
| Language | Training Documents | Training GPT2 Tokens | Avg Tokens/Doc | Max Tokens | Test Documents | Test GPT2 Tokens | Test Avg Tokens/Doc | Test Max Tokens |
| ---------- | -----------------: | -------------------: | -------------: | ---------: | -------------: | ---------------: | ------------------: | --------------: |
| isiZulu | 116,693 | 192,622,799 | 1,650.68 | 335,530 | 687 | 1,080,961 | 1,573.45 | 15,691 |
| isiXhosa | 99,567 | 141,484,241 | 1,421.00 | 113,710 | 788 | 1,161,296 | 1,473.73 | 17,220 |
| isiNdebele | 21,922 | 17,533,799 | 799.83 | 42,701 | 222 | 170,111 | 766.27 | 6,615 |
| siSwati | 1,668 | 3,148,007 | 1,887.29 | 24,129 | 17 | 29,753 | 1,750.18 | 6,682 |
This dataset covers all four of South Africa's Nguni languages, which are part of the Southern Bantu language family.
## Dataset Structure
### Data Fields
- `text`: The text content of the document
- `language`: The language of the text (one of: isiZulu, isiXhosa, isiNdebele, siSwati)
### Data Splits
The dataset is divided into training and test splits as shown in the table above.
## Data Source
This dataset was processed from the FineWeb-2 dataset available on HuggingFace:
https://huggingface.co./datasets/HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-2
## Additional Information
- **License**: Apache 2.0
- **Version**: 1.0.0
- **Collection Date**: January 2025
## Language Information
The Nguni languages included in this dataset are:
- **isiZulu**: The most widely spoken language in South Africa
- **isiXhosa**: The second most spoken Nguni language
- **isiNdebele**: Also known as South Ndebele or Southern Ndebele
- **siSwati**: Also known as Swati or Swazi
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