Common Voice Scripted Speech 23.0 - Pahari-Potwari

[Pahari-Pothwari] — Pahari-Pothwari (phr)

This datasheet is for version 23.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Pahari-Pothwari (phr). The dataset contains 15 hours of recorded speech (15 hours validated) from 63 speakers.

Language

Pahari-Pothwari is a group of dialects spoken in the Pothohar Plateau of Punjab, Pakistan, and across the border in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK). The name is a combination of two closely related dialect clusters: Pahari (literally "of the hills") and Pothwari (referring to the Pothohar region). Pahari-Pothwari belongs to the Indo-Aryan family of languages. It shares lexical and grammatical similarity with these languages.

Variants

The dataset comprises sentences that characterize the Pahari-speaking population residing in the Poonch district of Azad Jammu and Kashmir.

Demographic information

The dataset includes the following distribution of age and gender.

Gender

Self-declared gender information, frequency refers to the number of clips annotated with this gender.

Age

Self-declared age information, frequency refers to the number of clips annotated with this age band.

Text corpus

The dataset comprises a speech corpus totaling 15 hours, containing 2,077 Pahari sentences. The primary source for the corpus was the published books by Dr. Muhammad Saghir Khan, a distinguished literary figure and academician from Rawalakot, Poonch. This was supplemented with a smaller collection of sentences gathered from the daily conversations of native Pahari speakers. The entire set of written sentences was then recorded by 63 native speakers, all of whom are residents of the Poonch region of Azad Jammu and Kashmir.

Writing system

The writing system used for the corpus is based on the Urdu orthography. The corpus was written using the same Urdu script and follows the right-to-left direction of Urdu.

Symbol table

The Urdu alphabet was utilized for transcription.

Sample

There follows a randomly selected sample of five sentences from the corpus. پتہ نئیں کوئِیاں اس نی سوچ بسرے ویلے گئی اُٹھی ایہھے کرنیاں بانیاں او اپنے نکوٹے نے ویلے نیاں گلاں بانے لاغے اُنی اج پھیدری پھیدری شازیہ باقیں کولا ٹھوالی انیں وچ جوان کڑیاں جنگت نالے اس نے ہم قوم زیادے سے کہھڑی چھٹ ہور لنگتھی

Sources

Published books of Dr. Muhammad Saghir Khan Daily conversation of Pahari speakers

Text domains

General

Processing

The text was written in Unicode, following the conventions of Urdu orthography.

Datasheet authors

Dr. Muhammad Saghir Khan saghirrawlakot@gmail.com

Funding

This datasheet was created with funding from the Mozilla Foundation. Meesum Alam (meesum.alam12@gmail.com) served as the resource person, coordinating the dispersal of the funds on behalf of Mozilla.

Licence

This dataset is released under the Creative Commons Zero (CC-0) licence. By downloading this data you agree to not determine the identity of speakers in the dataset.