Common Voice Scripted Speech 23.0 - Southern Pastaza Quechua

Urin Pastasa Kichwa — Southern Pastaza Quechua (qup)

This datasheet is for version 23.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Spontaneous Speech dataset for Southern Pastaza Quechua (qup). The dataset contains 16 hours of recorded speech (12 hours validated) from 15 speakers.

Language

Southern Pastaza Quechua, identified by the ISO 639-3: qup, belongs to the Quechua II group. Pastaza River crosses the borderline between Perú and Ecuador, the native speakers of this dialect influence and are influenced by Quechua dialects spoken in Ecuador and also for other neighboring Amazonian languages. Migration means that this language also is spoken in San Lorenzo, Yurimaguas and Iquitos cities in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest.

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:

Shuk sisakuna tutayahushpan taparinahun pakarihushpan paskarinahun.
Wiksayni waklishkawa rishpayni mana atipashkanichu kushilla kanata.
Wakra wañushkata muktishpankuna ullawankakuna awapi pawarihunkuna.
Urkunrayku sinchi kaspikunata munan wasi llashata awantanankunapa.
Mana alita killkashka shimita pichanki, chaywasha alita killkanki.

Automatic random samples

Llashayninka yapakta kashka.
Wawkiynika achka asiypata kwintanakunata yachan.
Kallaripayanahunshi awanata itipinkunarayku.
Chay rimillu pulbu kashpan mana utkalla waklinchu.
Tamyashpalla katihun.

Sources

Sentences were collected by Mr. Pedro Ricce and Mr. Franklin Espinoza

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.