Tingmál

Documents, acts and proceedings of Løgtingið, the Faroese parliament, encoded as TEI/XML with a sentence-level JSONL export.

Rani Høgnason Hansen

An unofficial dataset. Not a publication of Løgtingið.

Tingmál collects parliamentary questions, legislative proposals, laws, committee reports, decisions and coalition agreements from Løgtingið and encodes each one as a TEI P5 XML document, with every sentence carrying a stable identifier and a language tag. sentences.jsonl is the deduplicated set of all Faroese sentences, one JSON object per line, intended for text mining, parliamentary analytics, search experiments and Faroese language modelling.

Statistics

The sentence file at a glance

Sentences 146,154
Tokens, split on whitespace 3,125,792
Types, unique tokens, case-folded 157,333
Median sentence length 19 tokens
5th to 95th percentile 7 to 43 tokens

Sentences by decade

Decade Sentences Share Share, as a bar
1990s 13,090 8.96%
2000s 16,257 11.12%
2010s 39,379 26.94%
2020s 69,113 47.29%

The remaining 5.7% of sentences are undated or from before 1990.