Southeastern Iranian languages
E129731
Southeastern Iranian languages are a subgroup of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian language family, historically spoken in eastern Iran and surrounding regions and including languages such as Pashto and Ossetian.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Southeastern Iranian languages canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1023273 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Southeastern Iranian languages Context triple: [Iranian languages, hasBranch, Southeastern Iranian languages]
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A.
Southwestern Iranian languages
Southwestern Iranian languages are a branch of the Iranian language family that includes major languages such as Persian, Luri, and Tat, primarily spoken in Iran and surrounding regions.
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B.
Northwestern Iranian languages
Northwestern Iranian languages are a subgroup of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian language family, encompassing several related languages spoken primarily in western Iran, the Caucasus, and surrounding regions.
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C.
Eastern Iranian languages
Eastern Iranian languages are a subgroup of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian language family, comprising languages such as Pashto and Ossetian spoken mainly in eastern Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and parts of Central Asia and the Caucasus.
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D.
Judeo-Iranian languages
Judeo-Iranian languages are a group of Iranian languages traditionally spoken and written by Jewish communities in Iran and surrounding regions, often featuring Hebrew and Aramaic influences.
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E.
Iranian languages
Iranian languages are a branch of the Indo-Iranian family of Indo-European languages, historically spoken across Iran, Central Asia, and surrounding regions, including major languages such as Persian (Farsi), Pashto, and Kurdish.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Southeastern Iranian languages Target entity description: Southeastern Iranian languages are a subgroup of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian language family, historically spoken in eastern Iran and surrounding regions and including languages such as Pashto and Ossetian.
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A.
Southwestern Iranian languages
Southwestern Iranian languages are a branch of the Iranian language family that includes major languages such as Persian, Luri, and Tat, primarily spoken in Iran and surrounding regions.
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B.
Northwestern Iranian languages
Northwestern Iranian languages are a subgroup of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian language family, encompassing several related languages spoken primarily in western Iran, the Caucasus, and surrounding regions.
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C.
Eastern Iranian languages
Eastern Iranian languages are a subgroup of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian language family, comprising languages such as Pashto and Ossetian spoken mainly in eastern Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and parts of Central Asia and the Caucasus.
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D.
Judeo-Iranian languages
Judeo-Iranian languages are a group of Iranian languages traditionally spoken and written by Jewish communities in Iran and surrounding regions, often featuring Hebrew and Aramaic influences.
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E.
Iranian languages
Iranian languages are a branch of the Indo-Iranian family of Indo-European languages, historically spoken across Iran, Central Asia, and surrounding regions, including major languages such as Persian (Farsi), Pashto, and Kurdish.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
branch of Iranian languages
ⓘ
language subgroup ⓘ |
| hasApproximateNumberOfSpeakers | tens of millions (dominated by Pashto speakers) ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
complex verbal morphology in Pashto
ⓘ
contrastive aspiration in some consonant systems ⓘ grammatical gender absent in most members ⓘ retroflex consonants in some members ⓘ rich case system in some members ⓘ |
| hasGeographicDistribution |
Afghanistan
ⓘ
Central Asia ⓘ Pakistan ⓘ South Asia ⓘ Tajikistan ⓘ eastern Iran ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalLanguage |
Khotanese language
ⓘ
surface form:
Khotanese
Saka ⓘ Scythian languages ⓘ
surface form:
Scythian
Tumshuqese ⓘ |
| hasISOClassification | part of ISO 639-3 codes for individual member languages ⓘ |
| hasLanguageFamily |
Indo-European language family
ⓘ
surface form:
Indo-European languages
|
| hasMajorLanguageBySpeakers |
Pashto language
ⓘ
surface form:
Pashto
|
| hasMorphologicalType |
agglutinative language
ⓘ
fusional language ⓘ |
| hasNotableLanguage |
Bartangi
ⓘ
Ishkashimi ⓘ Khufi ⓘ Munji ⓘ Yidgha language ⓘ
surface form:
Munji-Yidgha
Ormur ⓘ
surface form:
Ormuri
Pamir languages ⓘ Parachi ⓘ Pashto language ⓘ
surface form:
Pashto
Rushani ⓘ Sanglechi ⓘ Ishkashimi ⓘ
surface form:
Sanglechi-Ishkashimi
Shughni ⓘ Wakhi ⓘ Wanetsi ⓘ Yazgulyam ⓘ Yidgha ⓘ |
| hasSubfamily | Eastern Iranian languages ⓘ |
| hasTypicalWordOrder | SOV ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem |
Arabic alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Arabic script
Cyrillic script ⓘ Latin script ⓘ Perso-Arabic script ⓘ |
| partOf |
Indo-European language family
ⓘ
surface form:
Indo-European languages
Indo-Iranian languages ⓘ Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian languages ⓘ |
| subclassOf | Iranian languages ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
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: Southeastern Iranian languages Description of subject: Southeastern Iranian languages are a subgroup of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian language family, historically spoken in eastern Iran and surrounding regions and including languages such as Pashto and Ossetian.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.