metadata

language:
  - tg
  - fa
license: cc-by-sa-4.0
tags:
  - tajik-literature
  - persian-literature
  - poetry
  - shahnameh
  - firdausi
pretty_name: Shahnameh in Tajik (9 Volumes)
dataset_info:
  features:
    - name: title
      dtype: string
    - name: author
      dtype: string
    - name: language
      dtype: string
    - name: text
      dtype: string
    - name: volume
      dtype: int32
  splits:
    - name: train
    - name: validation
  download_size: ~1 MB
  dataset_size: ~1 MB

📚 Shahnameh in Tajik (9 Volumes)

This dataset contains the full Tajik translation of the Persian epic poem Shahnameh by Abulqosim Firdausi. The collection includes 9 volumes and is suitable for literary research, linguistic analysis, and NLP model training.

📄 Example record

  {
    "title": "Шоҳнома ҷилди 1",
    "author": "Абулқосим Ф.",
    "language": "tajik",
    "text": "Оғози китоб. Ба номи худованди ҷону хирад, К-аз ин  бартар андеша барнагзарад: "
  }

📑 Data structure

Field	Type	Description
`title`	string	Title of the volume (e.g., "Шоҳнома ҷилди 1")
`author`	string	Name of the author (e.g., "Абулқосим Ф.")
`language`	string	Language of the text (e.g., "tajik")
`text`	string	Full literary text
`volume`	int	Volume number (1 to 9)

📦 Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

dataset = load_dataset("ArabovMK/shahnameh-tajik-corpus")

# Access data
train_data = dataset["train"]
val_data = dataset["validation"]

🎯 Purpose

📖 Study of Tajik and Persian literature
🧠 NLP tasks: language modeling, named entity recognition, poetry generation
📊 Training language models on historical and literary corpora

📜 Source

This data has been digitized from official Tajik-language literary editions. If you have additional materials or suggestions, feel free to contribute or contact the maintainer.

📌 Citation

@misc{shahnameh-tajik-corpus,
  title = {Shahnameh in Tajik (9 Volumes)},
  author = {Firdawsi, Abulqosim},
  year = 2025,
  publisher = {Hugging Face Datasets},
  url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/ArabovMK/shahnameh-tajik-corpus}
}

🤝 Acknowledgements

Thanks to everyone who contributes to the preservation and dissemination of Tajik and Persian literary heritage 🌍📖