Common Voice Scripted Speech 23.0 - Sindhi

[Sindhi] — Sindhi (sd)

This datasheet is for version 23.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Sindhi (sd). The dataset contains 35 hours of recorded speech (0.4 hours validated) from 25 speakers.

Language

Sindhi (سنڌي) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken mainly in Sindh, Pakistan, and also in India. It has millions of speakers, a rich literary history, and is written in both Perso-Arabic and Devanagari scripts.

Variants

Sindhi has several dialects, including Siroli (spoken in upper Sindh), Lari (spoken in lower Sindh), Thari (spoken in Tharparkar), and Kutchi (spoken in Kutch, India). The standard variety is based on the central Sindh dialect.

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 Sindhi corpus consists of collected texts from newspapers, and social media. It contains more then one lacs sentences. The texts cover different domains, including literature, news, education, and everyday communication.

Writing system

The Sindhi corpus is written in the Perso-Arabic script, which is the standard script used by Sindhi newspapers in Pakistan. It includes additional letters that represent Sindhi-specific sounds not found in standard Arabic.

Symbol table

The Sindhi Perso-Arabic script (used in newspapers) has 52 letters. Here is the full alphabet list separated by spaces: ا ب ٻ ڀ پ ت ٿ ٽ ٺ ث ج جه ڄ چ ڇ ح خ د ڌ ڏ ڊ ڍ ذ ر ڙ ڍ ز س ش ص ض ط ظ ع غ ف ڦ ق ڪ گ ڳ گه ڱ ل ڻ ن ڃ م و ء ه ة ي ئ

Sample

There follows a randomly selected sample of five sentences from the corpus. ڳوٺ محمد ابراهيم سومرو ۾ پورهيت چاڪر سومرو جي گهر کي باهه لڳي وئي عوامي تحريڪ ضلعي صدر ايڊووڪيٽ نياز بھراڻي قتل ٿيل امجد علي لاشاري جي والد عرس لاشاري احتجاج ڪيو ايس ايس پي سنگهار ملڪ جي وڪيل جي پونيئرن سان تعزيت قوم سميت واٽر ڪارپوريشن جي سمورن آفيسرن ۽ ملازمن کي مبارڪون

Text domains

General, Media and Entertainment, News and Current Affairs

Processing

The corpus was created by collecting texts from different Sindhi newspapers. The articles were gathered, cleaned to remove formatting issues, and then organized into a structured dataset for analysis.

Recommended post-processing

It is recommended to clean the text for duplicate articles, normalize spellings, and remove unwanted symbols or formatting. Tokenization and sentence segmentation may also be useful for better analysis.

Community links

Currently, there are no dedicated community links. Users can connect through Mozilla’s open-source language community channels

Funding

This dataset was created with funding support from Mozilla. Special acknowledgments to Meesam Alam (Meesum.alam12@gmail.com) for contributions and support.

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.