The first curated stopword list for the Karakalpak language (Latin script)
This repository contains a list of Karakalpak stopwords, collected primarily from formal written sources such as educational and reference materials. It is designed for Natural Language Processing (NLP) and text preprocessing tasks such as:
Cleaning text datasets/corpora for Karakalpak
Preprocessing for training NLP models or chatbots
Word frequency and statistical analysis
Improving search indexing and IR systems
machine translation
- Language: Karakalpak (Latin script)
- Size: 402 unique words (one per line, UTF-8 encoded)
- Source: Extracted and compiled from formal written content, later normalized into a single list.
with open('kaa_stopwords_v1.txt', encoding='utf-8') as f:
stopwords = set(f.read().splitlines())
text = "Men qaraqalpaq tilinde NLP jasayman"
filtered = [word for word in text.split() if word.lower() not in stopwords]
print(filtered)This is Version 1 of the Karakalpak stopword list. Future releases may include:
Expanded coverage
More informal / naturalized vocabulary
Refinements and corrections
Released under the MIT License – free to use, modify, and share with attribution.