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

Type: 59,318 tokens in isiXhosa (xh_ZA) annotated for part-of-speech for five different text types  (Final version).
Languages: 	isiXhosa (xh_ZA)
Date: 2026-03-31
Version: 1.0 (Final)

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

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 59,318 tokens for the language. Please see the included protocol for more details on the POS tags used.

Please see Tanja Gaustad, Roald Eiselen, Cindy McKellar (2026). Extension of Linguistic Resources for South African Languages: Part-of-Speech Annotated Domain-Specific Data. Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) (collocated with LREC 2026) for more detailed information.


Contents

Language and text type						| Tokens |
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isiXhosa CAPS gr12 (POS annotated)			| 12,005 |
isiXhosa MA/PhD Theses (POS annotated)		| 12,060 |
isiXhosa Magazines (POS annotated)			| 11,437 |
isiXhosa News (POS annotated)				| 11,336 |
isiXhosa Novels (POS annotated)				| 12,480 |		Total isiXhosa: 59,318
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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