Common Voice Scripted Speech 23.0 - Puno Quechua

Punu qhichwa — Puno Quechua (qxp)

This datasheet is for version 23.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Puno Quechua (qxp). The dataset contains 12 hours of recorded speech (9.2 hours validated) from 14 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, 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.

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.

Sample

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

Quwi aychata kankanapaq hak'uchay.
Luisaqa Limatas ripun.
Ancha munaymi kay patamanta llaqtaqa rikukun.
Chay puka papakunata astamuy.
Chay sipasman qullqita mañay!

Automatic random samples

Punapiri, manachu parashasqa?
Allin kallpayuq kanapaq, allinta mikhuykuna.
Llakikuqtiyqa yuyayniypis chinkawanmi.
Ima uma nanay kaqtinpas!
Qanqa allin warmin kanki

Sources

The sentences were created by native speakers, whose uploaded the sentences into Common Voice.

Text domains

The domain of the sentences are under:

• General
• Agriculture and Food
• Nature and Environment

Community links

• Common Voice translators on Pontoon
• QuechuaBase telegram group

Contribute

• Contribute voice recordings
• Contribute sentences
• Validate recordings
• Review sentences

Datasheet authors

• Elwin Huaman [email protected]

Citation guidelines

If you use this data in your research, please cite the following paper:

    @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.