Kencorpus Kenyan Language Corpus
Text and speech corpus for three Kenyan languages, Swahili, Dholuo and Luhya, containing 4,442 texts (5.6 million words) and 1,152 speech files (177 hours). It also ships derived NLP sets: POS-tagged Dholuo/Luhya, 7,537 Swahili question-answer pairs and 13,400 translated sentences. Downloadable from Harvard Dataverse; released 2022.
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- 🏳️ Kenya
- Last verified
- 5 Jul 2026
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