Common Voice Scripted Speech 23.0 - South Ucayali Ashéninka

[Asheninka South Ucayali] — Asheninka South Ucayali (cpy)

This datasheet is for version 23.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Asheninka South Ucayali (cpy). The dataset contains 11 hours of recorded speech (11 hours validated) from 15 speakers.

Language

The Asheninka are a South America first nation and their language belong to the Arawak linguistic family, they are primarily located in the central Peruvian rainforest between the eastern Andes and the Ucayali River, a region known as the Gran Pajonal due to its extensive tropical grasslands. Their cultural identity is deeply tied to their language, ancestral practices, and a profound connection to their territory, which they view as essential to their livelihood and cultural distinctiveness.

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

On average, sentences consist of six words and contain a total of forty letters.

Writing system

The Asheninka alphabet was officially established by Executive Order No. 199-2019-MINEDU issued by Peruvian Ministry of Education. The alphabet is composed by 22 graphemes.

Sample

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

Pankotziki roya owanawontzi
Katzinkaeteri tsinani opashikantawo  pashikawontzi ojawatanchari
Noshinkitaka noñawetzi kari pero, nosheninka eero napitziro
Pashitakoteri potzitzite, eero ratzikantari atziri
Añakiri nantatziri antamiki

Automatic random samples

Thame amampaya atzipatawakaya
Rashitakiro roki ojarentsipaeni
Ikamaetaki rentzite, iniro iraka oshekipero
Nawithakitakiro shintzi nana
Ari abijamotsimi awotzi

Sources

Sentences were written by Mr. Denis Camayteri.

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:

bibtex    @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.