kamal-018/Maithili-Corpus

Maithili Raw Corpus

• Language: Maithili (मैथिली, ISO 639-3: mai)
• License: CC-BY-4.
• Size: 28,622 documents | 13.7M words | ~45.8M tokens
• Format: JSONL (one paragraph per row)
• Tags: unlabelled, low-resource, indic-nlp, monolingual, pretraining

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Dataset Summary

A large, unlabelled corpus of written Maithili text for language model pretraining and unsupervised NLP research.

Property	Value
Documents	28,622
Total Words	13,664,375
Total Subword Tokens	~45.8 million
Unique Tokens	221,890
Avg. Document Length	~477 words
Avg. Sentence Length	~33 words

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Structure

Each row is a self-contained JSON object containing a full paragraph of continuous prose — not a single sentence.

{"corpus": "Full paragraph of Maithili text..."}

## Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite:

\`\`\`bibtex
@dataset{maithili_corpus,
  author = {Kamal Khatri},
  title = {Maithili Raw Corpus},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/kamal-018/maithili-corpus}
}
\`\`\`