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Kurdish Sorani (Central Kurdish) Text Corpus Published: 8 February 2026

Contributors: Tarik A. Rashid, Qais Kakl, Abdulhady Abdulla, Polla Fattah, Pakhshan Fahmi, Aram Mahmood, Yassin Hussein, Bryar Ahmad

Description: A cleaned Kurdish Sorani (Central Kurdish) text corpus developed by the University of Kurdistan Hewler (UKH) /Artificial Intelligence and Innovation Centre (AIIC) and the Kurdish Academy (KA). The corpus is compiled from a large collection of academic books covering diverse topics, including:

  1. Literature & Poetry
  2. History & Politics
  3. Philosophy
  4. Economics
  5. Science & Technology
  6. Religion & Islamic Studies
  7. Law & Legal Studies
  8. Education
  9. Linguistics & Language Studies
  10. Social Sciences
  11. Art & Culture
  12. Medicine & Health
  13. Geography
  14. Psychology
  15. Translation Studies

The corpus has been processed to normalise character variants, separate Persian content, and standardise text formatting. Owner: UKH-AIIC & Kurdish Academy Language: Kurdish Sorani (ckb) Script: Arabic-based Kurdish alphabet Format: Plain text (.txt)

Acknowledgments: We would like to express our sincere gratitude to the following institutions for providing the primary texts used in this dataset: the Kurdish Academy, the Ministry of Culture, the University of Duhok, Koya University, the University of Sulaimani, and the University of Raparin. Furthermore, we extend our thanks to the volunteers who assisted in the classification and processing of the data: Dr Diyar Ali Kamal (Salahaddin University), Hersh Chato Hassan (University of Raparin), Rizgar Qadir Rasul (Soran University), Himdad Raoof Barzanji (International School of Choueifat), and Mohammed Shwan Shafiq (Shyaw High School). Their contributions were essential to the completion of this work.

Institutions: University of Kurdistan Hewler and the Kurdish Academy, Erbil, Kurdistan Region Categories Natural Language Processing, Corpus Linguistics, Kurd, Textbook

license: cc-by-4.0

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