task_categories:text-generation language:am license:apache-2.0 size_categories:1M<n<10M format:csv modality:text library:datasets library:pandas library:mlcroissant library:polars region:us
---
license: apache-2.0
task_categories:
- text-generation
language:
- am
pretty_name: Amharic Pretraining Corpus
size_categories:
- 100M<n<1B
---
**Amharic Pretraining Corpus** is a large-scale dataset **(~130M)** for general amharic language pretraining tasks. It consists of diverse text sources, including news articles, books, social media posts, government documents, and web content, all written in Amharic.

You can load the dataset as follows
```python
from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("yordanoswuletaw/amharic-pretraining-corpus")
```