metadata

language:
  - zul
  - xho
  - nbl
  - ssw
license: apache-2.0
annotations_creators:
  - no-annotation
language_creators:
  - found
size_categories:
  - 100K<n<1M
source_datasets:
  - original
task_categories:
  - text-generation
task_ids:
  - language-modeling
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