Project: SADiLaR IV (Extension): Update and extension of linguistic resources and core technologies for South African languages

Type: 60,809 tokens in Afrikaans (af_ZA) annotated for part-of-speech for five different text types  (Final version).
Languages: 	Afrikaans (af_ZA)
Date: 2026-05-13
Version: 1.0 (Final)

Description:
This deliverable contains part-of-speech tagged data from five different text types for Afrikaans.

The text types included are:

- CAPS gr12 (Academic)
- MA/PhD Theses (Academic)
- Magazines (Non-Academic)
- News (Non-Academic)
- Novels (Fiction)

The data is given as txt files where each line contains a token and the corresponding POS tag, tab separated.

Each text type data file contains 11,000+ tokens, amounting to a total of 60,809 tokens for the language. Please see the included protocol for more details on the POS tags used.

Contents

Language and text type					| Tokens |
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Afrikaans CAPS gr12 (POS annotated)		| 11,698 |
Afrikaans MA/PhD Theses (POS annotated)	| 12,251 |
Afrikaans Magazines (POS annotated)		| 12,570 |
Afrikaans News (POS annotated)			| 11,955 |
Afrikaans Novels (POS annotated)		| 12,335 |		Total Afrikaans: 60,809
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SADiLaR website: https://sadilar.org

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Licence for final (v1.0) distribution: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
 
URL: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
 
Attribute work to: 
	CTexT® (Centre for Text Technology, North-West University), South Africa; 
	SADiLaR (South African Centre for Digital Language Resources), South Africa.
Attribute work to URL:	
	http://humanities.nwu.ac.za/ctext
    https://sadilar.org