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Kazakh Classical Poetry — Abai & Makataev

233 cleaned Kazakh poems by Abai Kunanbaiuly and Mukagali Makataev, prepared for language models.

Period
Mar 2026
Role
Curator
Status
Published dataset · CC0
Archival photograph of Abai Kunanbaiuly
file
abai_clean.txt
author
Abai Kunanbaiuly (1845–1904)

Өлең — сөздің патшасы, сөз сарасы,

Қиыннан қиыстырар ер данасы.

Тілге жеңіл, жүрекке жылы тиіп,

Теп-тегіс жұмыр келсін айналасы.

Poetry is the king of words, the choicest of speech; only the wise can join what is hard to join.

Abai · 74 poemsMakataev · 159 poems

Abai Kunanbaiuly, archival photograph. Wikimedia Commons, public domain.
poems, cleaned and structured
233
poems, cleaned and structured
poems by Abai / by Makataev
74 / 159
poems by Abai / by Makataev
words
~41,800
words

Kazakh is a low-resource language for NLP, and literary Kazakh even more so. The corpus covers Abai Kunanbaiuly (1845–1904) and Mukagali Makataev (1931–1976), cleaned and structured for language modelling and analysis.