Chakma language
E138251
The Chakma language is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily by the Chakma people of Bangladesh and northeastern India.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Chakma language canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1209457 — 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: Chakma language Context triple: [Bengali script, usedFor, Chakma language]
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A.
Meitei language
Meitei language is the principal Tibeto-Burman language of the Indian state of Manipur, serving as its official and most widely spoken tongue.
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B.
Assamese
Assamese is an Eastern Indo-Aryan language primarily spoken in the Indian state of Assam and recognized as one of the official languages of India.
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C.
Santhali
Santhali is an Austroasiatic language spoken primarily by the Santal people in eastern India, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Bhutan.
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D.
Lepcha language
The Lepcha language is an indigenous Sino-Tibetan language spoken primarily by the Lepcha people in parts of Sikkim and neighboring regions of India, Bhutan, and Nepal, known for its unique script and rich oral tradition.
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E.
Burushaski
Burushaski is a language isolate spoken by the Burusho people in northern Pakistan, particularly in the Hunza, Nagar, and Yasin valleys of Gilgit-Baltistan.
- 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: Chakma language Target entity description: The Chakma language is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily by the Chakma people of Bangladesh and northeastern India.
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A.
Meitei language
Meitei language is the principal Tibeto-Burman language of the Indian state of Manipur, serving as its official and most widely spoken tongue.
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B.
Assamese
Assamese is an Eastern Indo-Aryan language primarily spoken in the Indian state of Assam and recognized as one of the official languages of India.
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C.
Santhali
Santhali is an Austroasiatic language spoken primarily by the Santal people in eastern India, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Bhutan.
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D.
Lepcha language
The Lepcha language is an indigenous Sino-Tibetan language spoken primarily by the Lepcha people in parts of Sikkim and neighboring regions of India, Bhutan, and Nepal, known for its unique script and rich oral tradition.
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E.
Burushaski
Burushaski is a language isolate spoken by the Burusho people in northern Pakistan, particularly in the Hunza, Nagar, and Yasin valleys of Gilgit-Baltistan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Eastern Indo-Aryan language
ⓘ
Indo-Aryan language ⓘ natural language ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Assamese language
ⓘ
Bengali language ⓘ Sylheti language ⓘ |
| country |
People's Republic of Bangladesh (from East Pakistan)
ⓘ
surface form:
People's Republic of Bangladesh
India ⓘ
surface form:
Republic of India
|
| endangeredStatus | vulnerable language ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Chakma people ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Changma Kodha
ⓘ
Tsaangma language ⓘ |
| hasDigitalEncoding | Unicode ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | chak1272 ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticTypology | SOV word order ⓘ |
| hasMinorityLanguageStatusIn |
People's Republic of Bangladesh (from East Pakistan)
ⓘ
surface form:
Bangladesh
India ⓘ |
| hasMorphologyType | agglutinative tendencies ⓘ |
| hasOfficialStatusIn |
Tripura
ⓘ
surface form:
Tripura, India
|
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive aspiration in stops
ⓘ
tone-like pitch distinctions in some dialects ⓘ |
| hasScriptType | Brahmic script ⓘ |
| hasStandardizationEffortsBy | Chakma literary organizations ⓘ |
| hasWritingDirection | left-to-right ⓘ |
| ISO639-2Code | ccp ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | ccp ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Indo-Aryan languages
ⓘ
Indo-European language family ⓘ
surface form:
Indo-European languages
Indo-Iranian languages ⓘ |
| nativeName |
Changma Vaj
ⓘ
surface form:
Changma Bhach
Changma Vaj ⓘ |
| primaryScriptStandardized | Chakma script ⓘ |
| region |
South Asia
ⓘ
northeastern India ⓘ southeastern Bangladesh ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Arunachal Pradesh
ⓘ
People's Republic of Bangladesh (from East Pakistan) ⓘ
surface form:
Bangladesh
Hill Tracts of Chittagong ⓘ
surface form:
Chittagong Hill Tracts
India ⓘ Mizoram ⓘ Tripura ⓘ |
| UnicodeBlock | Chakma (U+11100–U+1114F) ⓘ |
| usedByReligion |
Buddhism
ⓘ
Hinduism ⓘ |
| usedFor |
education in some Chakma community schools
ⓘ
religious texts of Chakma Buddhists ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Bengali script
ⓘ
surface form:
Bengali–Assamese script
Chakma script ⓘ Latin alphabet ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
|
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: Chakma language Description of subject: The Chakma language is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily by the Chakma people of Bangladesh and northeastern India.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.