Common Voice Scripted Speech 23.0 - Sihuas Ancash Quechua

[Quechua Sihuas Ancash] — Quechua Sihuas Ancash (qws)

This datasheet is for version 23.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Quechua Sihuas Ancash (qws). The dataset contains 11 hours of recorded speech (11 hours validated) from 12 speakers.

Language

Sihuas Ancash Quechua, identified by the ISO 639-3: qws, belongs to the Quechua I 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.

Symbol table

Following the rules established by the Peruvian Ministry of Education, Chawpin qichwata qillqanapaq maytu. Manual de escritura quechua central

Sample

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

Huk runashi ishkay churiyuq kanaq.
Qipa kaq churin shamuykan.
¿Imanirtaq kayllatraw mana maypapis yarqukur arur kaykanki?
Taytay, uushaata rakipaykamay.
Huk markapa aywakuytami munaa.

Automatic random samples

Waray puntrawnawmi yurirqaa.
Wañuq kaqkunaqa manami imatapis apakunku.
Limaqpitami shamuykaa.
Ishkay chakwan papata yanuykaayan.
Llapallanchik hallpapa aywashun.

Sources

Sentences were written by 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.