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Source stories from the African Storybook Project in Markdown format

Source stories from the African Storybook Project in Markdown format

This repository makes available the source texts of stories from the African Storybook Project in Markdown format.

Each folder in the repository represents a language, identified by its ISO 639-1 or ISO 639-3 code. Source translations into each language are stored in the appropriate folders.

All of these source texts have been extracted from the pdfs available on the African Storybook Project website. The markdown files in this repo provide data for many other projects, for example the ASP Image Bank Explorer and Global-ASP Translator, as well as making possible the creation of bilingual storybooks in many languages.

Corresponding images for the stories in this repository can be found in the ASP Image Bank.

Format

The extracted source text of all stories has been provided here in Markdown format. See here for specific details about the format used.

A sequence of two hashes ## on a separate line indicates a page break.

Editing of the story content has been kept to a minimum and for the most part the stories are presented as they are. Corrections other than obvious errors of orthography or traces of the conversion process should be directed to the African Storybook Project website directly. (An easy way to do this is to simply version the story in question and use the online tools provided to modify and edit the story.)

Languages

The African Storybook Project currently provides stories in 62 different African languages. This repository attempts to provide the source text for all of these stories in machine- and human-readable Markdown format.

Below is a key to the languages covered by this repository and their ISO 639-1/3 codes.

ISO code	Language Name
ach	Acholi
adh	Dhopadhola
af	Afrikaans
alz	Alur
am	Amharic
anu	Anywak
bem	IciBemba
bxk	Lubukusu
cce	Cicopi
de	German
dag	Dagbani/Dagbanli
dga	Dagaare
dje	Zarma
ee	Ewe
en	English
ff	Fulfulde
fr	French
gaa	Ga
gjn	Gonja
gur	Gurene
guz	Ekegusii
ha	Hausa
kam	Kikamba
kdj	Ngakarimojong
keo	Kakwa
ki	Gikuyu
kln	Kalenjin
koo	Lukhonzo
kpz	Sabinyi
kr	Kanuri
laj	Leblango
lgg	Lugbarati
lgg-official	Lugbarati (Official)
lg	Luganda
lko	Olukhayo
loz	Lozi
lsm	Lusamia
luc	Aringati
luo	Dholuo
lwg	Oluwanga
mas	Maa
mer	Kimîîru
mhi	Ma'di
myx	Lumasaaba
nle	Olunyala
nr	isiNdebele
nso	Sepedi
nuj	Lunyole
ny	Chichewa
nyn	Runyankore
nyu	Chinyungwe
om	Afan Oromo
pt	Portuguese
rw	Kinyarwanda
saq	Samburu
so	Somali
ss	siSwati
st	Sesotho
sw	Kiswahili
teo	Ateso
ti	Tigrinya
tn	Setswana
toh	Gitonga
toi	Tonga
tsc	Xitswa
ts	Xitsonga
ttj	Rutooro
tuv	Ng'aturkana
ve	Tshivenda
xh	isiXhosa
xog	Lusoga
yo	Yoruba
zne	Zande
zu	isiZulu

License

All stories in this repository are Creative Commons licensed (either CC-BY or CC-BY-NC). The specific license for each story is indicated both in the file itself (in the metadata section), and in the corresponding README.md file for that language. Links to the original stories on the ASP website can also be found in the README.md files.