| --- |
| language: |
| - sw |
| - en |
| - swh |
| license: apache-2.0 |
| tags: |
| - kenya |
| - code-switching |
| - sheng |
| - swahili |
| - pretraining |
| - 1m-corpus |
| - language-modeling |
| size_categories: |
| - 1M<n<10M |
| --- |
| |
| # 🇰🇪 Kenyan Code-Switching Pretraining Corpus (1,000,000 Sentences / 16.99M Words) |
|
|
| The largest standardized, rule-audited monolingual pretraining corpus for Kenyan Code-Switching (Sheng / Technical Swahili-English Blend). |
|
|
| ## Corpus Statistics |
|
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| - **Total Sentences:** 1,000,000 sentences |
| - **Total Word Tokens:** 16,990,653 words |
| - **Average Sentence Length:** 16.99 words (multi-clause explanatory syntax) |
| - **Linguistic Audit Score:** 100.0000% compliance across all 20 Master Blueprint rules |
| - **Raw Text Size:** 113.3 MB (`.txt`) |
| - **Metadata JSONL Size:** 203.6 MB (`.jsonl`) |
|
|
| ## Domains Represented |
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| 1. **Engineering & Infrastructure:** Structural analysis, shear stress, electrical transformers, hydraulics, concrete rebar. |
| 2. **Finance & FinTech:** M-Pesa, SACCOs, Central Bank of Kenya inflation, collateral liquidation, loan underwriting. |
| 3. **Tech & Software Systems:** Microservices, Redis caching, Kubernetes deployment, API gateway authentication, CI/CD pipelines. |
| 4. **Medicine & Healthcare Sciences:** Emergency triage, acute respiratory intubation, targeted antibiotics, pathology. |
| 5. **Politics & Constitutional Governance:** Katiba 2010 public participation, bicameral parliament, gubernatorial impeachment, fiscal policy. |
|
|
| ## Usage |
|
|
| ```python |
| from datasets import load_dataset |
| |
| dataset = load_dataset("text", data_files={"train": "kenyan_code_switch_corpus_1m.txt"}) |
| ``` |
|
|
| ## Citation |
|
|
| ```bibtex |
| @dataset{kenyan_code_switch_1m_2026, |
| title={Kenyan Code-Switching 1M Pretraining Corpus}, |
| author={Maxwell Ng'ang'a}, |
| year={2026}, |
| publisher={Hugging Face}, |
| url={https://huggingface.co/datasets/Maxyelow/kenyan-code-switch-1m} |
| } |
| ``` |
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