sinaahmadi/zazagoranicorpus

A corpus for the Zazaki and Gorani languages

A Corpus for the Zazaki and Gorani languages

For more information, see this blog post.

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✨ Update December 2022: A corpus of Southern Kurdish, more precisely Feyli, is added.

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This repository provides a corpus for two endangered languages of the Zaza-Gorani language family: Zazaki and Gorani. These two languages along with Shabaki are the three languages belonging to the Zaza-Gorani language family and are popularly believed to belong to Kurdish. In this paper, we discuss how these languages are different from Kurdish, particularly the Sorani and Kurmanji dialects, in terms of phonetics, morphology and syntax.

We also report our efforts in collecting documents in various topics from news websites andcreate the first corpus for Zazaki and Gorani. We believe that this corpus can pave the way for furtherdevelopments in linguistics and computer science, particularly in information retrieval and NLP wherelanguage modeling is beneficial to various applications such as grammatical and spell checking.

Cite this corpus

If you're using this corpus, please don't forget to cite the following paper.

@inproceedings{ahmadi2020zazagorani,
  title={{Building a Corpus for the Zaza–Gorani Language Family}},
  author={Ahmadi, Sina},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial 2020)},
  pages={},
  year={2020}
}

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License

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