---
license: cc
language:
- kk
- ru
tags:
- Abai
- Kazakh
- poetry
- Russian
pretty_name: Abai's verses
size_categories:
- n<1K
dataset_info:
  - config_name: verses
    features:
      - name: id
        dtype: string
      - name: year
        dtype: string
      - name: kk_title
        dtype: string
      - name: kk_text
        dtype: string
      - name: translator
        dtype: string
      - name: translation
        dtype: string
configs:
  - config_name: verses
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: abai_verses.csv
---
# Abai
A dataset of works by **[Abai Qunanbaiuly](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abai_Qunanbaiuly)** (1845 – 1904), a great Kazakh poet, composer, and philosopher

## abai_verses.csv
 - The file contains 176 verses by Abai Qunanbaiuly and their Russian translations.
 - 168 verses were written in the period between 1855 and 1903; the exact years of eight verses are unknown.
 - 21 verses have no Russian translations.
 - There are 43 translators.
 - A translator's name can be given more than once if there are multiple variants of a verse by the same translator.
 - With punctuation and \n removed:
   - the number of tokens in the **kk_text** column is 19,190.
   - the number of types in the **kk_text** column is 8,099.
   - the number of unique letters in the **kk_text** column is 40.