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license: apache-2.0
task_categories:
- text-generation
language:
- zu
size_categories:
- 100K<n<1M
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This is IsiZulu Pretraining Dataset. The dataset was used to pre-train BafoGPT-3B

Books: Zulu-English Dictionary – A dictionary offering Zulu terms with English definitions, ideal for teaching basic word mappings.

Translation: South African Government Speeches – Official speeches in Zulu, which help the model understand structured Zulu sentences and phrases.

Transcription: Zulu Community Corpus – A collection of transcriptions, exposing the model to real-life conversational Zulu.

Document: Leipzig Corpora Collection – Text from various Zulu documents, helping the model understand written Zulu.

News: Isolezwe News – Zulu-language news articles for understanding contemporary Zulu language usage and current affairs.

Poems: Zulu Poetry – Poetry resources for cultural and literary language representation.

Web: Various websites – Diverse web-scraped content in Zulu, providing a wide range of linguistic inputs.

Wikipedia: Zulu Wikipedia – Articles in Zulu covering various topics, offering an informative and factual base for the model.