Common Voice Scripted Speech 23.0 - Loja Highland Quichua

[Loja Highland Kichwa] — Loja Highland Kichwa (qvj)

This datasheet is for version 23.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Loja Highland Kichwa (qvj). The dataset contains 12 hours of recorded speech (11 hours validated) from 16 speakers.

Language

Loja Highland Kichwa, identified by the ISO 639-3: qvj, belongs to the Quechua II group.

Demographic information

The dataset includes the following distribution of age and gender.

Gender

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

Age

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

Text corpus

The average length of sentences is 6 tokens (40 characters).

Writing system

Quechua language is written in the Latin script. All Quechua dialects form words by sequentially adding suffixes to a root and follows a Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) word order.

Sample

There follows a randomly selected sample of five sentences from the corpus:

Shunkullita mashama kararka
Tikramuy kikinpa muskuypi
Pawan ashtaka wayanaykuna tamia chayamuymanta
Hatarishka wayrawan pillpintushna
Hatarishka pillpintulaya kawsay yaya pachamamapi

Automatic random samples

Kunan kashaka wayra punlla.
Puentes vitelas mishitinchi inti raymita takinkapa.
Hatarirka yaya pututa.
Maskaspami kani mashikunta kichwa shimi yachakunkapa munakkunata.
Mana sakinachu kanchi hatuktaytata nirka ayllukuna.

Sources

Sentences were collected by Mr. Luis Córdova

Community links

• Common Voice translators on Pontoon

Contribute

• Contribute voice recordings

• Contribute sentences

• Validate recordings

• Review sentences

Acknowledgements

We extend our gratitude to Mr. Oscar Chávez Gonzales of the Peruvian Ministry of Education for providing invaluable information.

Datasheet authors

• Luis Camacho camacho.l@pucp.pe

Citation guidelines

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

    @article{Camacho_2024,
    title   ={Automating the Proposition of Neologisms for the Quechua Language},
    volume  ={54}, DOI={10.1017/S0025100324000227},
    number  ={3},
    journal ={Journal of the International Phonetic Association},
    author  ={Camacho, Luis},
    year    ={2024},
    pages   ={922–938}}

Funding

This dataset was funded by the Mozilla Foundation 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.