---
language:
- pbv
license: cc-by-4.0
task_categories:
- automatic-speech-recognition
pretty_name: Pnar Speech Corpus
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
---

# Pnar Speech Corpus

A speech corpus for Pnar (Jaintia), an Austroasiatic language spoken in the Jaintia Hills of Meghalaya, Northeast India. Collected as part of the MWire Labs indigenous language AI initiative.

## Dataset Details

- **Language:** Pnar (pbv) — Austroasiatic, Mon-Khmer family
- **Region:** Jaintia Hills, Meghalaya, Northeast India
- **Recordings:** 2,302 utterances
- **Task:** Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)
- **License:** CC-BY-4.0

## Collection

Audio collected via the MWire Labs Core Data Platform — a purpose-built web-based speech corpus collection system. Speakers recorded prompted sentences in a controlled session environment.

## Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite:
```
@dataset{mwirelabs_pnar_2026,
  title={Pnar Speech Corpus},
  author={MWire Labs},
  year={2026},
  publisher={HuggingFace},
  url={https://huggingface.co/datasets/MWirelabs/pnar-speech-corpus}
}
```

## About MWire Labs

MWire Labs is an AI research division focused on building foundational language technology for Northeast India's indigenous languages. [mwirelabs.com](https://mwirelabs.com)