Sindh Sujag Newspaper Corpus
License:
CC-BY-4.0
Steward:
Sindh Sujag Newspaper Agency
Task: NLP
Release Date: 12/3/2025
Format: TXT
Size: 2.63 MB
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Description
The corpus contains approximately 1.2 million tokens from the Sindh Sujag Newspaper Agency published between 2024 and 2025. It includes complete newspaper content such as headlines, editorials, finance news, and advertisements. The newspaper is published daily in Karachi, Pakistan, and represents a comprehensive collection of contemporary Sindhi journalistic writing.
Specifics
Licensing
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)
https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-4.0.htmlConsiderations
Restrictions/Special Constraints
The data cannot be used by an organization having annual revenue more than one million USDs.
Forbidden Usage
Generating, promoting, or distributing hate speech, misinformation, or culturally offensive content. Commercial or for-profit projects without explicit permission from the dataset creator. Any use that misrepresents or distorts Punjabi literature or the works contained within
Processes
Ethical Review
The dataset was compiled using publicly available newspaper text. No private or sensitive information is included. Proper credit has been given to the source (Sindh Sujag Newspaper).
Intended Use
The corpus can be used for training, evaluating, and fine-tuning NLP models for the Sindhi language, as well as for linguistic and cultural research on Sindhi journalism, morphology, and syntax.
Metadata
Language
Sindhi (سِنڌِي, Sindhī, [sɪndʱi} is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Sindhi in the province of Sindh, Pakistan. It is the official language of the province and constitutes the mother tongue of over 34 million people in Pakistan and 1.7 million people in India.
Script
The following is the list of Sindhi letters ا ب ٻ ڀ ت ٿ ٽ ٺ ث پ ج ڄ جھ ڃ چ ڇ ح خ د ڌ ڏ ڊ ڍ ذ ر ڙ ز س ش ص ض ط ظ ع غ ف ڦ ق ڪ ک گ ڳ گھ ڱ ل م ن ڻ و ھ ء ي
Processing
The text contains the whole newspaper and may need some processing including removing alphanumerical, non Sindhi characters and sentence parsing and to be used for training purposes.
Sample Text
سنڌ ۾ ترقي جو سفر جاري آهي ۽ جاري رهندو هن چيو ته پ پ چيئرمين بلاول ڀٽو زرداري ۽ صدر آصف علي زرداري واضح ڪيو آهي ٺٽو / ملير (نمائيندن وٽان) سنڌ جي وڏي وزير مراد علي شاهه چيو آهي ته ڪالاباغ ڊيم اسلام آباد (مانيٽرنگ ڊيسڪ) وزيراعظم محمد شهباز شريف ملڪ جي پائيدار ترقي رکندڙ هزار ٽيوب ويلز جو منصوبو شروع ڪيو ويو، پنجاب ۽ سنڌ ۾ به ان حوالي سان ڪم جاري آ