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Punu qhichwa — Puno Quechua (`qxp`)

This datasheet is for version 23.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Spontaneous Speech dataset for Puno Quechua (qxp). The dataset contains 6 hours of recorded speech (6 hours validated) from 11 speakers.

Language

Puno Quechua, identified by the ISO 639-3: qxp, belongs to the Quechua II group. The 2017 National Census in Peru estimates approximately 474203 speaker of Puno Quechua, predominantly in the Puno region of Peru.

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.

Writing system

The writting system for the Puno Quechua language is not formaly described, however there are some resources that can be mentioned. Linguistic resources for Puno Quechua, as cataloged by Glottolog puno1238, are predominantly from the 1963–1993 period, with limited publications post-2005. These materials offer critical insights into the Puno Quechua language's grammatical framework. Like all Quechua languages, Puno Quechua forms words by sequentially adding suffixes to a root and follows a Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) word order.

Questions

There follows a randomly selected sample of transcribed responses from the corpus.

Huñullachu icha sapallaykichu llank'ayta munawaq? Imarayku?
Pipas wañupuqtin hinaqa, imatataq ruwankichis llaqtaykipi?
Aylluykipi, imaynatataq qullqita waqaychayta yachankichis?

Responses

There follows a randomly selected sample of transcribed responses from the corpus.

Masiykunawan tupani hinaqa asikuspallaykun puriyku, chaymanta mikhuspapis lumata purispapis, takiqpis riyku ima. Aqnatan.
Llaqtaman urayuyku hinaqa chaqramanta huqarisqakunata qhatuyku qhatuna wasipi, runa mink'akuqpis puriyku, utaq ayllumasiykuta watukuq riyku, anchaymi llaqtapi p'unchaykunaqa.
Nuqaqa llank'ani sapallay, nuqataq warmi kani nuqataq qhari kani, hina chaqra ruwayñiykunata. Waq amikuykunapis kallantaq anchiykunatapis ayutallawantaq hina, chaykunata llank'ani: papata, kinuwata, qañiwa siwarata, todo agricultura.

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Datasheet authors

Elwin Huaman elwin.huaman@hotmail.com

Citation guidelines

If you use this dataset in your research, please cite the following publication:

bibtex    @inproceedings{HuamanHHQ25,
    author       = {Elwin Huaman and
                    Jorge Luis Huaman and
                    Wendi Huaman and
                    Ninfa Quispe},
    title        = {Quechua Speech Datasets in Common Voice: The Case of Puno Quechua},
    booktitle    = {Information Management and Big Data - 12th Annual International Conference, SIMBig 2025, Lima, Peru, October 29-31, 2025, Proceedings},
    series       = {Communications in Computer and Information Science},
    publisher    = {Springer},
    year         = {2025},
    }

Funding

This dataset was partially funded by the Open Multilingual Speech Fund.

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.

Common Voice Spontaneous Speech 1.0 - Puno Quechua

Punu qhichwa — Puno Quechua (qxp)