Alanic language

E124252

Eastern Iranian language Iranian language Sarmatian language extinct language

The Alanic language was an extinct Eastern Iranian language once spoken by the Alans, an ancient nomadic people of the North Caucasus and Eurasian steppe.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Alanic language canonical	2
Sarmatian language	1

Statements (45)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Eastern Iranian language ⓘ Iranian language ⓘ Sarmatian language ⓘ extinct language ⓘ
associatedWith	Alania ⓘ surface form: Medieval Alania North Ossetia ⓘ surface form: North Ossetia region
attestedIn	Arabic sources ⓘ Byzantine Greek sources ⓘ inscriptions in the North Caucasus ⓘ medieval Latin sources ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo	Sarmatian languages ⓘ Scythian languages ⓘ
ethnicGroup	Alans ⓘ
extinctionCause	language shift to neighboring languages and Ossetian ⓘ
glottocode	alan1243 ⓘ
hasDescendant	Ossetian language ⓘ
hasLinguisticFeature	Iranian-type case system ⓘ Satem phonology ⓘ rich consonant system ⓘ
historicalRole	linguistic ancestor of Ossetians ⓘ
influenced	Ossetian language ⓘ
ISO639-3	xln ⓘ
languageFamily	Eastern Iranian ⓘ Indo-European language family ⓘ surface form: Indo-European Indo-Iranian ⓘ Iranian languages ⓘ surface form: Iranian
partOf	Scytho-Sarmatian linguistic continuum ⓘ
region	Eurasian Steppe ⓘ North Caucasus ⓘ
spokenBy	Alans ⓘ
spokenIn	medieval Kingdom of Alania ⓘ surface form: Kingdom of Alania Northern slopes of the central Caucasus ⓘ Pontic–Caspian steppe ⓘ
status	extinct ⓘ
subclassOf	Eastern Iranian languages ⓘ Indo-European language family ⓘ surface form: Indo-European languages Indo-Iranian languages ⓘ Iranian languages ⓘ
timePeriod	1st millennium CE ⓘ early 2nd millennium CE ⓘ
usedBy	Alanic nobility ⓘ
usedFor	intertribal communication among Alanic groups ⓘ
writingSystem	Cyrillic script ⓘ Greek alphabet ⓘ Runic-like tamgas (epigraphic marks) ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: Alanic language
Description of subject: The Alanic language was an extinct Eastern Iranian language once spoken by the Alans, an ancient nomadic people of the North Caucasus and Eurasian steppe.

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Iranian languages → hasMajorLanguage → Alanic language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sarmatian language

Ossetian language → ancestor → Alanic language ⓘ

Ирон (Iron) → ancestorLanguage → Alanic language ⓘ

subject surface form: Ирон