Boredoom17/Nepali-Flow-Formal

Nepali-Flow-Formal

What's This?

This dataset has formal Nepali writing—the kind you'd find in news articles, encyclopedias, and research papers. Good for training language models on clear, well-written Nepali.

What's Inside

6,735,808 rows from three places:

• —IRIISNEPAL dataset (MIT license)
• —Nepali Wikipedia
• —Nepali news outlets (Kantipur, Setopati, etc.)

Mostly in Devanagari script. Formal writing—no slang or memes.

Schema

• —text
• —source
• —domain
• —script
• —lang
• —date_collected
• —license

Notes:

• —domain values include formal, encyclopedia, and news
• —script is predominantly devanagari

Construction Notes

• —Source material is normalized to text rows.
• —Duplicate and malformed records are reduced during preprocessing.
• —Metadata is preserved to enable source-aware and license-aware filtering.

Good For

• —Training language models on formal Nepali
• —News classification and topic modeling
• —Tasks where proper grammar matters
• —Understanding how formal Nepali differs from casual speech

Fair Warnings

• —Mostly news articles—might not help with casual speech understanding
• —Some articles lean toward specific outlets' editorial styles
• —A few random formatting hiccups might be hiding in there

License Statement

Mixed-source formal aggregate:

• —MIT (IRIISNEPAL)
• —CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikipedia)
• —source-dependent (scraped news)

How to Cite

If you use this in research, cite it like:

Aadarsha Chhetri. (2026). Nepali-Flow-Formal. https://huggingface.co/datasets/Boredoom17/Nepali-Flow-Formal

Or in BibTeX:

@dataset{aadarsha2026formal,
  author = {Aadarsha Chhetri},
  title = {Nepali-Flow-Formal},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/Boredoom17/Nepali-Flow-Formal}
}