Common Voice Scripted Speech 23.0 - Arequipa-La Unión Quechua
Locale: qxu
Size: 260.07 MB
Task: ASR
Format: MP3
License: CC-0
[Qichwa Arequipa-La Unión] — Quechua Arequipa-La Unión (qxu)
This datasheet is for version 23.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset
for Quechua Arequipa-La Unión (qxu). The dataset contains 14 hours of recorded
speech (11 hours validated) from 16 speakers.
Language
Arequipa - La Unión Quechua, identified by the ISO 639-3: qxu, belongs to the Quechua II 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.
| Gender | Pertentage |
|---|---|
| Undefined | 46.0% |
| Female Feminine | 54.0% |
Age
Self-declared age information, percentage refers to the number of clips annotated with this age band.
| Age Band | Percentage |
|---|---|
| Twenties | 47.0% |
| Thirties | 34.0% |
| Teens | 9.0% |
| Fourties | 9.0% |
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, Urin Qichwa Qillqay Yachana Mayt'u = Manual de escritura quechua sureño
| Symbol |
|---|
| a |
| ch |
| chh |
| ch' |
| h |
| i |
| k |
| kh |
| k' |
| l |
| ll |
| m |
| n |
| ñ |
| p |
| ph |
| p' |
| q |
| qh |
| q' |
| r |
| s |
| th |
| t |
| t' |
| u |
| w |
| y |
Sample
There follows a randomly selected sample of five sentences from the corpus.
qariqmantam mana llamk'ana kanchu
Qasasqa rit'iqa achka killapi chullun
Tutantinchu mikhurqanku
¡Hakuchu, chuwispi pukllaykamusunchik!
¡Hampuy, taytáy, allqupas watasqam!
Automatic random samples
Willakuy, ama manchakuspa.
Rakisqa, phatmasqa, wakyachisqa.
Ña sindicato rantirqachikusqaña.
Sallqa kawsaqkuna hapʼiymi.
Qurpachaway, mamitáy.
Sources
Sentences were written by Prof. Cerafina Condori
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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.