rustemgareev/chuvash-names

Chuvash Pre-Christian Names

Description

This dataset is a structured version of "Dictionary of Chuvash Anthroponyms of the Pre-Christian Era" (A.M. Ivanova, E.V. Fomin, 2020). It contains over 10,000 given names used by the Chuvash people in the pre-Christian period (i.e., before the 19th century).

Usage

The dataset can be loaded using the Hugging Face datasets library.

from datasets import load_dataset

dataset = load_dataset("rustemgareev/chuvash-names", split='train')

# Print the first example
print(dataset[0])

Example Output:

{
  "id": "avakkay",
  "name": "Аваккай",
  "is_reconstructed": false,
  "transcription": "авак:аj",
  "transcription_latn": "avakkay",
  "gender": "m",
  "variants": null,
  "etymology": ["араб. ‫أب اك ا‬ (Абака) ‘брат отца, друг’ + -ай"],
  "source": "Ашмарин т. 1, с. 38"
}

Data Structure

Each record is a JSON object with the following fields:

• id (string): A unique identifier in Latin script.
• name (string): The name in Cyrillic script.
• is_reconstructed (boolean): true if the name form is a linguistic reconstruction, false otherwise.
• transcription (string): Phonetic transcription in Cyrillic script.
• transcription_latn (string): Phonetic transcription in Latin script.
• gender (string): The gender associated with the name (m for male, f for female, u for unisex). Can be null.
• variants (string): Spelling variants of the name. Can be null.
• etymology (list of strings): A list containing one or more versions of the name's origin.
• source (string): A reference to the original source of information.