Datasets

AsoSoft Kurdish Text Corpus

Jan 2018 Full research corpus: approximately 188M tokens and 458,000 documents; public releases: 75M and 5M tokens Non-commercial research terms; standardized license not verified
Text TEI

A large Central Kurdish text corpus collected from websites, books and magazines. The research paper reports approximately 188 million tokens and 458,000 documents; public releases are smaller …

Central Kurdish (Sorani)
General Text
1 related paper

AsoSoft Speech Corpus

Jan 2021 43.68 hours (full corpus); public subset approximately 30 hours Research/non-commercial public subset
Audio Text Transcriptions

Central Kurdish (Sorani) speech corpus developed for automatic speech recognition and related speech-processing research. The full corpus reported in the Jira study contains 43.68 hours of speech from …

Central Kurdish (Sorani)
Automatic Speech Recognition
1 related paper

AsoSoft Speech Corpus for Central-Kurdish Text-To-Speech

Jun 2022 Public subset: approximately 1h02m and 522 text/audio pairs Repository licensing signals conflict; unrestricted commercial reuse not verified
WAV TXT RAR

A Central Kurdish single-speaker female speech corpus associated with AsoSoft. The full corpus is described as 21 hours and 10,979 sentences, but the public repository offers only an approximately …

Central Kurdish (Sorani)
Text-to-Speech
1 related paper

BD-4SK-ASR

Jan 2019 2,000 utterances
Audio Text Transcriptions

An experimental Sorani Kurdish speech-to-text dataset developed for early Kurdish automatic speech recognition research using CMUSphinx. The dataset contains 2,000 utterances based on vocabulary and …

Central Kurdish (Sorani)
Automatic Speech Recognition
1 related paper

Bianet Parallel News Corpus

Jan 2018 Release-specific; see official distribution CC BY-SA 4.0
TXT Parquet

Parallel news corpus containing Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji), English and Turkish material. The published study reports 6,486 English-Kurmanji and 7,390 Turkish-Kurmanji pairs; current distributions …

Kurdish (Kurmanji) English Turkish
Machine Translation
1 related paper

Central Kurdish 100-Hour ASR Corpus

Jan 2024 Approximately 100 hours
Audio Text Transcriptions

A Central Kurdish (Sorani) speech corpus constructed for end-to-end automatic speech recognition research. The Breaking Walls study reports approximately 100 hours of speech and uses the corpus to …

Central Kurdish (Sorani)
Automatic Speech Recognition
1 related paper

Central Kurdish Isolated Handwritten Characters

Jan 2021 Approximately 41,000 isolated handwritten character images; exact current v3 total not independently verified CC BY 4.0
JPEG

A public collection of isolated handwritten Central Kurdish characters associated with the 2021 Data in Brief publication. The original paper reports 40,940 images from 390 writers, while a later …

Kurdish (Sorani)
Handwritten Character Recognition
1 related paper

Central-Kurdish-Spelling-dataset

385 Amani rows; 1,400 NeteweNet rows
CSV

A public collection of Central Kurdish spelling-error material distributed by AsoSoft. The downloaded files contain 385 Amani rows and 1,400 NeteweNet rows, excluding headers. The maintainers document …

Central Kurdish
Spelling Error Evaluation
1 related paper

Computer and Internet Terminology

72 numbered rows; one row lacks a Kurdish equivalent Not verified
HTML table

An English-Kurdish computing and Internet terminology list by Dilan Roshani, hosted by the Kurdish Academy of Language website. The page contains 72 numbered rows, with one row lacking a Kurdish …

English Kurdish
Computing and Internet terminology

CORDI

Jan 2024 311 movies/episodes; 186,038 utterances; more than 100 hours of audiovisual material CC BY-SA 4.0
SRT JSON TSV

A corpus covering six Central Kurdish urban varieties using volunteer transcriptions of movies and television, with dialect and speaker metadata.

Central Kurdish
Movies, Television and Regional Varieties
1 related paper

DASNUS

Mar 2026 11,475 handwritten lines from 867 writers CC BY 4.0
JPG TXT XLSX

A Sorani Kurdish handwritten-line dataset containing 11,475 lines from 867 writers. The creators define writer-separated training, validation and test splits containing 8,042, 1,700 and 1,733 lines …

Kurdish (Sorani)
Handwritten Text Recognition
1 related paper

Dictionary of Scientific Terms / Ferhenga Termên Fenî

Entry count not verified Not verified
Book PDF presentation

A scientific-terminology dictionary family by Bahattin Gümgüm, documented through a 2015 book record and a 2022 author-uploaded three-volume presentation. It provides English-Kurdish-Turkish …

English Kurdish Turkish
Scientific terminology

Ferhenga Zaravên Teknîkî / Dictionary of Technical Terms

Distinct term count not verified Reuse license not verified
Searchable PDF

A 2014 Kurdish-Turkish-English technical dictionary produced through TMMOB's Diyarbakır Provincial Coordination Board and Kurdish Technical Work Committee. It covers engineering, architecture, …

Kurdish Turkish English
Engineering, architecture, planning, computing and technical sciences

FLEURS-Kobani

Jan 2026 5,162 validated utterances; 18 hours 24 minutes; 31 speakers
Audio Text Transcriptions

An extension of the FLEURS multilingual speech benchmark for Northern Kurdish. The resource contains 5,162 validated utterances totaling 18 hours and 24 minutes of speech from 31 native speakers and …

Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji)
Automatic Speech Recognition and Speech Translation
1 related paper

FLORES-200 Kurdish Evaluation Benchmark

Jan 2022 3,001 designed sentences per language; 2,009 publicly released dev/devtest sentences per Kurdish variety CC BY-SA 4.0
TXT

Multilingual machine translation evaluation benchmark containing Central Kurdish (ckb_Arab) and Northern Kurdish (kmr_Latn). Public Kurdish portions contain 997 development and 1,012 development-test …

Central Kurdish Northern Kurdish English Multilingual
Machine Translation Evaluation
1 related paper

FreeDict Kurdish-English Dictionary

5,208 headwords
TEI P5 XML

A Kurdish-to-English bilingual dictionary distributed through the FreeDict project. The official listing reports version 1.2 and 5,208 headwords. The precise Kurdish variety, release year and exact …

Kurdish English
Bilingual Lexicography

Garrusi Kurdish ASR Evaluation Set

Jan 2026
Audio Text Transcriptions

A Garrusi Kurdish evaluation set constructed for assessing unadapted multilingual automatic speech recognition systems. The associated study applies common-reference staged normalization to compare …

Garrusi Kurdish
Automatic Speech Recognition
1 related paper

Gigant-KTTS / Gigant Dataset

Apr 2024 6,078 utterances; 13.63 hours reported CC BY 4.0
WAV XLSX

A Central Kurdish speech corpus created for text-to-speech research by Hawraz A. Ahmad and Tarik A. Rashid. The release reports 6,078 utterances from one male speaker across twelve subject categories, …

Central Kurdish (Sorani)
Text-to-Speech
4 related papers

Hojan Science Dictionary

8,900 entries reported by Hojan Not verified
HTML Search interface

An online scientific dictionary from Hojan Science Organization. Hojan describes its own collection as English-Kurdish-Persian and displays 8,900 entries. Scientific entries observed include medicine, …

English Kurdish Persian
Multidomain scientific terminology

IT Dictionary - Zanistperweranî Kurd

Jan 2011 1,721 entries
Searchable Web Dictionary

An English-to-Central-Kurdish information-technology terminology dictionary digitized in VejînLex. VejînLex reports 1,721 entries. A bulk-download format, public API and dataset reuse license were not …

English Central Kurdish (Sorani)
Information Technology Terminology

K-PIT and K-ZHMARA

Dec 2022 315,000 images combined CC BY 4.0
JPEG

A deposited Central Kurdish handwriting bundle containing K-PIT for isolated characters and K-ZHMARA for digits. K-PIT contains 245,000 images across 35 classes and K-ZHMARA contains 70,000 images …

Kurdish (Sorani)
Handwritten Characters and Digits
1 related paper

KHLD - Kurdish Handwritten Lines Dataset

Apr 2026 47,944 handwritten line images reported by the creators CC BY 4.0
JPEG XLSX

A public Sorani Kurdish handwritten-line resource created by Mohammed S. Ibrahim, Hevi Ahmed, Yassin Hussein, Tarik A. Rashid and Polla Fattah. The creators report 47,944 line images and 4,802 …

Kurdish (Sorani)
Handwritten Text Recognition

KSTRV2

Sep 2025 1,420 scene images, 19,872 real word samples and 20,000 synthetic instances reported for the multilingual collection CC BY 4.0
JPEG TXT

Corrected public release of the Kurdish scene-text recognition resource associated with KSTRV1. The multilingual collection covers Sorani and Badini in Arabic-based Kurdish script alongside Arabic and …

Kurdish (Sorani) Kurdish (Badini) Arabic English
Scene Text Recognition
1 related paper

KTC-Language-Model

94,188 unigrams; 372,903 bigrams; 521,797 trigrams
XML Excel

The released Sorani language-model data underlying the 2022 contextual spell-checking study. The paper reports 94,188 unigram, 372,903 bigram and 521,797 trigram types. This is a language-model …

Central Kurdish (Sorani)
Statistical Language Modeling
1 related paper

Kurdish Language Processing Toolkit (KLPT)

Not applicable as an independent spelling dataset
Python JSON Hunspell resources

A public Python toolkit for Sorani and Kurmanji language processing. Its spelling-suggestion component calls Hunspell, so it is an integration layer rather than an independently evaluated spelling …

Central Kurdish (Sorani) Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji)
Kurdish Language Processing

Kurdish Sorani (Central Kurdish) Text Corpus - UKH/AIIC-Kurdish Academy

Jul 2026 Not verified Version-specific: Mendeley v1 CC BY 4.0; Mendeley v2 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0; Hugging Face mirror lists CC BY 4.0
TXT

A Central Kurdish text corpus built from books in 15 academic subject categories through collaboration involving UKH/AIIC and the Kurdish Academy. No verified document, sentence or token count was …

Central Kurdish (Sorani)
Academic Books

Kurdish Standard Characters EMNIST-like Dataset

Jul 2023 406,000 images reported by the repository CC BY 4.0
JPEG

An EMNIST-like handwritten-character resource for Sorani Kurdish. The repository reports 406,000 images across 58 character-shape categories. The associated paper verifies Sorani coverage; Latin …

Kurdish (Sorani)
Handwritten Character Recognition
1 related paper

Kurdish Textbooks Corpus (KTC)

Jan 2019 31 textbooks; 693,800 tokens; 110,297 types CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
XML Text

A Sorani corpus created from Kurdish K-12 textbooks and organized by educational subject.

Sorani Kurdish
Education
2 related papers

KurdishBLARK InterdialectCorpus

Jan 2020 12,327 Sorani-Kurmanji; 1,797 English-Kurmanji; 650 English-Sorani pairs CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
TMX XML TXT

Manually validated parallel news corpus containing 12,327 Sorani-Kurmanji, 1,797 English-Kurmanji and 650 English-Sorani aligned pairs.

Kurdish (Sorani) Kurdish (Kurmanji) English
Parallel Corpora
1 related paper

KurdishHunspell

33,856 Sorani; 43,945 Kurmanji; 43,328 Zazaki declared lexical entries in the cited releases
Hunspell .dic Hunspell .aff UTF-8

A downloadable Hunspell lexical and morphological resource for Kurdish. The maintained repository includes Sorani, Kurmanji and Zazaki components. June 2025 releases declare 33,856 Sorani and 43,945 …

Central Kurdish (Sorani) Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji) Zazaki
Spell Checking and Morphological Analysis
1 related paper

KurdishHunspell Annotated Lexicons

Jan 2021 Repository update reports 33,856 Sorani and 43,945 Kurmanji tagged entries; a later update reports 43,328 Zazaki tagged lexical entries
Hunspell DIC Hunspell AFF

Hunspell-compatible Kurdish lexicons containing lemmas or stems, morphosyntactic information and morphological rules. The resource began with Sorani and later repository updates added Kurmanji and …

Sorani Kurdish Kurmanji Kurdish Zazaki
Lexical Morphology and Spell Checking
1 related paper

KurdishLex / Kurdish Lexicographical Resources

Jan 2019 Repository reports 5,527 Sorani, 4,053 Kurmanji, 1,170 Hawrami and 11,026 Southern Kurdish headwords
RDF Turtle

Machine-readable Kurdish lexical resources represented with OntoLex-Lemon. The expanded repository includes Sorani, Kurmanji, Hawrami and Southern Kurdish components. Repository headword totals differ …

Sorani Kurdish Kurmanji Kurdish Hawrami Southern Kurdish
Electronic Lexicography
2 related papers

KurdishMT Reproducibility Bundle

Jan 2020 Aggregate unique-pair count not verified Repository: Apache-2.0; upstream text licenses must be checked separately
TXT JSON Python

Reproducibility resources for Sorani-English machine translation experiments, including repackaged Tanzil, TED and KurdNet material, processed splits, tokenization models, scripts and translation …

Kurdish (Sorani) English
Machine Translation
1 related paper

KurdishOCR Ground Truth

Jan 2021 522 line-image/transcription pairs reported by the associated paper GPL stated by the paper; exact repository license version not independently verified
PNG TXT

Ground-truth material released for printed Sorani Kurdish OCR research by Saman Idrees and Hossein Hassani. The associated study reports 522 line-image/transcription pairs. The repository distributes …

Kurdish (Sorani)
Printed OCR
1 related paper

KurdishOldTextsOCR

Jan 2024 1,203 TIFF images and 1,203 text files in the inspected release Conflicting primary statements: repository says CC BY-NC-ND 4.0; paper says CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
TIFF TXT

Ground truth for OCR of historical printed Sorani Kurdish publications. Direct archive inspection found 1,203 TIFF images and 1,203 text files. The associated paper reports 1,233 line images, so the …

Kurdish (Sorani)
Historical Printed OCR
1 related paper

KurdishTokenization Lexical Bundle

Jan 2020 Lexicon entry total not verified
JSON Text Corpus Format

Lexical resources accompanying Kurdish tokenization research, including annotated lemmas and compound or multiword variants derived in part from FreeDict and Wîkîferheng.

Sorani Kurdish Kurmanji Kurdish
Tokenization and Lexical Processing
1 related paper

KurdNet - Kurdish WordNet

Jan 2014 Minimal alignment: 2,145 synsets and 6,248 literals; maximal alignment: 3,801 synsets and 17,990 literals
TSV JSON XML

A Sorani Kurdish lexical-semantic resource aligned with WordNet. The repository provides minimal and maximal alignments; these are alternative alignments and their counts should not be added together.

Sorani Kurdish
Lexical Semantics and WordNet
2 related papers

KurdSum Dataset

40,000+ article-summary pairs CC BY 4.0
Text Article-summary pairs

A Kurdish news summarization benchmark with more than 40,000 news texts paired with human-written summaries. It was introduced with the KurdSum study and is publicly archived in Mendeley Data.

Kurdish
News summarization
1 related paper

KurFemTTS: A Large-Scale Kurdish Female Speech Corpus for Text-to-Speech

Jul 2026 4,599 WAV files inspected; 2,993 metadata rows; approximately 10 hours reported CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
WAV CSV

A Sorani/Central Kurdish female speech corpus released by Abdulhady A. Abdullah, Tarik A. Rashid, Tanya Syamand, Polla A. Fattah, Qais kakl, and Pakhshan fahmi. The creator reports approximately ten …

Central Kurdish (Sorani)
Text-to-Speech

Kurmancî Seminar Bulletins, Glossary and Index

Complete term count not verified Reuse license not verified
PDF bulletins HTML glossary Indexes

A long-running Kurdish Institute of Paris terminology and language-planning resource. The series documents seminar decisions, thematic vocabulary, usage and orthographic discussion, with multilingual …

Kurmanji Kurdish French English Turkish
General and specialist terminology

LR-Sum

40 languages; Kurdish represented as separate Kurmanji and Sorani subsets CC BY 4.0
Text Article-summary pairs

A multilingual summarization dataset derived from Voice of America newswire with human-written summaries for 40 languages. It includes separate Kurmanji and Sorani Kurdish subsets and is released …

Kurmanji Kurdish Sorani Kurdish
News summarization
1 related paper

Mozilla Common Voice 18.0 - Northern Kurdish

Jan 2024 Approximately 101 recorded hours; approximately 68 validated hours
Audio Text Transcriptions

Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji) speech data from Mozilla Common Voice 18.0 used for end-to-end Transformer-based ASR research. The referenced study reports approximately 101 hours of recorded speech and …

Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji)
Automatic Speech Recognition
1 related paper

NLLB-200 Translation Model Family

Jan 2022 Representative release: approximately 600M parameters CC BY-NC 4.0
PyTorch SentencePiece JSON

Released multilingual neural machine translation model family supporting Central Kurdish (ckb_Arab) and Northern Kurdish (kmr_Latn). The 600M distilled checkpoint is a representative publicly …

Central Kurdish Northern Kurdish Multilingual
Neural Machine Translation
1 related paper

PARME Parallel Corpora

Jan 2025 Southern Kurdish: 9,797; Laki: 3,418; Hawrami: 7,794; Zazaki: 4,401 aligned records as documented by the project Corpus/code repository: MIT; model weights have separate licensing
TSV JSONL

Community-created parallel resources for low-resource Middle Eastern language varieties. Kurdish-related resources identified by the publication include Southern Kurdish, Laki, Hawrami and Zazaki …

Southern Kurdish Laki Hawrami Zazaki English Persian
Machine Translation
1 related paper

Pewan Corpus and Retrieval Test Collection

Jan 2013 Sorani: 115,340 documents / 18,110,723 words; Kurmanji: 25,572 documents / 4,120,027 words Not verified
Text

A comparable Sorani and Kurmanji news corpus collected from material published between 2003 and 2012, accompanied by information-retrieval resources.

Sorani Kurdish Kurmanji Kurdish
News and Information Retrieval
1 related paper

Sorani Kurdish Research-Document Summarization Corpus

231 research documents
Research documents Generated summaries CSV experiment data

A research corpus assembled for automatic summarization experiments from 231 Sorani Kurdish scientific papers across four academic departments. Public repository availability and a standalone dataset …

Sorani Kurdish
Scientific and academic documents
1 related paper

Southern Kurdish and Laki Corpus Collection

Jan 2023 Feyli: 15,985 documents / 2.182M tokens; Kermanshahi: 18 / 10,127 tokens; Laki: 7 / 6,340 tokens Not verified
Text

A collection developed for severely under-resourced Southern Kurdish varieties and Laki using web material, radio scripts and digitized fieldwork.

Feyli Kermanshahi Laki
News, Radio and Fieldwork
1 related paper

Southern Kurdish ASR Benchmark

Jan 2026 Approximately 30 hours of validated speech
Audio Text Transcriptions

A Southern Kurdish speech-recognition resource and benchmark introduced for low-resource ASR evaluation. The associated study reports approximately 30 hours of validated read speech and evaluates …

Southern Kurdish
Automatic Speech Recognition
1 related paper

TICO-19 Kurdish Translation Benchmark

Jan 2020 3,071 sentence pairs per Kurdish-English variety New translations CC0; underlying source licenses retained in metadata
TSV TMX

Medical and crisis-domain machine translation benchmark with separate English-Sorani and English-Kurmanji sets. Each Kurdish-English pair contains 3,071 aligned sentences: 971 development and 2,100 …

Kurdish (Sorani) Kurdish (Kurmanji) English
Machine Translation Evaluation
1 related paper

TTS4All Central Kurdish Speech Dataset

Jan 2026 17,671 utterances / 35h20m reported; inspected release contained 17,738 metadata rows CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
WAV CSV

A Central Kurdish TTS corpus released by Mohammad Mohammadamini, Meysam Shamsi, Marie Tahon, TTS4All/JSALT 2025, and LIUM. Published statistics report 17,671 utterances and 35h20m, while the inspected …

Central Kurdish (Sorani)
Text-to-Speech
1 related paper

UD Northern Kurdish-Kurmanji

Jan 2017 754 sentences; 10,188 tokens; 10,259 syntactic words in the inspected current UD release CC BY-SA 4.0
CoNLL-U

A Universal Dependencies treebank for Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji), containing manually reviewed linguistic annotation for syntax and morphology.

Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji)
Syntax and Linguistic Annotation
1 related paper

Wîkîferheng / Kurdish Wiktionary Structured Resource

Sep 2026 Approximately 525,000 Kurmanji senses and 6,900 Sorani senses in the reviewed extraction
Wikimedia Dump JSONL

Community-maintained Kurdish Wiktionary lexical content with machine-readable extraction available through Kaikki/Wiktextract. Retrieved extraction figures report approximately 525,000 Kurmanji senses …

Kurmanji Kurdish Sorani Kurdish
Collaborative Digital Lexicography

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