Common Voice Scripted Speech 23.0 - Yauyos Quechua
Locale: qux
Size: 258.09 MB
Task: ASR
Format: MP3
License: CC-0
Yauyos qichwa — Yauyos Quechua (qux)
This datasheet is for version 23.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Spontaneous Speech dataset
for Puno Quechua (qux). The dataset contains 14 hours of recorded
speech (11 hours validated) from 15 speakers.
Language
Yauyos Quechua, identified by the ISO 639-3: qux, belongs to the Quechua I group. It is seriously endangered but still spoken in Perú, Lima region, Yauyos province, districts: Alis, Tomas, Huancaya, Vitis, Azángaro, Huangáscar, Cacra and Hongos.
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.
| Gender | Pertentage |
|---|---|
| Undefined | 37.0% |
| Female Feminine | 63.0% |
Age
Self-declared age information, percentage refers to the number of clips annotated with this age band.
| Age Band | Percentage |
|---|---|
| Undefined | 2.0% |
| Twenties | 24.0% |
| Thirties | 39.0% |
| Fifties | 24.0% |
| Sixties | 12.0% |
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.
Symbol table
Following the rules established by the Peruvian Ministry of Education, Chawpin qichwata qillqanapaq maytu. Manual de escritura quechua central
| Symbol |
|---|
| a |
| aa |
| ch |
| h |
| i |
| ii |
| k |
| l |
| ll |
| m |
| n |
| ñ |
| p |
| q |
| r |
| s |
| sh |
| t |
| ts |
| tr |
| u |
| uu |
| w |
| y |
Sample
There follows a randomly selected sample of five sentences from the corpus:
Chay riñunpaqa papata yanusaykita chumaykushpam upyanki.
¡Chay uchuta kutay!
Manam ñuqaqa almata qawanichu.
Ima chumpi ñawichu, ima yana ñawichu.
Chumpi ñawi alli allintachus qawan.
Automatic random samples
¿Imas uray mayu patanpi puñuyan?
Pasaypa aqlam kayan.
Hirkaćhuumi runakuna kutichiyta ćhurasqa.
Uray pampaćhuumi sarata tarkuyan.
Chaki chakiña awas kayan.
Sources
Sentences were written by Mr. Pedro Ricce
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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.