metadata
language:
- ha
tags:
- language
- hausa
size_categories:
- 500K<n<2M
license: apache-2.0
Hausa Dataset
The vocabulary foundation is organized by linguistic categories (pronouns, verbs, nouns, adjectives) with over 200 core Hausa words.
Key Features
- Core Vocabulary Categories:
- Pronouns with gender distinctions (kai/ke for masculine/feminine 'you')
- Verbs covering daily activities and essential actions
- Nouns spanning family, nature, time, and cultural concepts
- Adjectives with proper Hausa formations
- Numbers from basic counting to large values
- Time expressions including Islamic prayer times
- Hausa-Specific Linguistic Elements:
- Gender agreement with 'ne/ce' copulas
- Proper pronoun usage with masculine/feminine distinctions
- Negation patterns with 'ba...ba' construction
- Question word formations
- Conjunction usage following Hausa syntax
- Cultural and Religious Content:
- Islamic content relevant to Hausa speakers (prayer, pillars of Islam)
- Traditional Hausa proverbs and their meanings
- Cultural practices and traditions
- Major Hausa cities and cultural elements
- Data Type Distribution:
- 35% synthetic sentences for general language patterns
- 18% pattern variations for grammatical structures
- 15% conversational exchanges
- 12% question-answer pairs
- 8% translation exercises
- 5% grammar instruction
- 3% story completions
- 2% proverb explanations
- 1% religious content
- 1% cultural content
Citation
If you find this work relevant or helpful to your work, please kindly cite it:
@misc{hausadataset,
title={Hausa Dataset},
author={Finbarrs Oketunji},
year={2025}
}
Copyright
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