Dataset Card for NINJAL Ainu Folklore
Dataset Summary
Ainu is an endangered (nearly extinct) language spoken in Hokkaido, Japan. This dataset contains recordings of 38 traditional Ainu folktales by two Ainu speakers (Mrs. Kimi Kimura and Mrs. Ito Oda), along with their transcriptions (in Latin script), English translations, and underlying and surface gloss forms in English. (For transcriptions in Katakana and translation/gloss in Japanese, please see the original corpus… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/wav2gloss/NINJAL-Ainu-Folklore.
