Eastern Indo-Aryan languages
E143195
Eastern Indo-Aryan languages are a branch of the Indo-Aryan language family spoken mainly in eastern India, Bangladesh, and Nepal, including major languages such as Bengali, Assamese, and Odia.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eastern Indo-Aryan languages canonical | 17 |
| Eastern Indo-Aryan | 3 |
| Eastern Indo-Aryan subgroup | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1157698 — 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: Eastern Indo-Aryan languages Context triple: [Odia, subfamily, Eastern Indo-Aryan languages]
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A.
Northwestern Indo-Aryan languages
Northwestern Indo-Aryan languages are a subgroup of the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family spoken primarily in northwestern parts of the Indian subcontinent, including languages such as Sindhi, Punjabi, and Lahnda.
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B.
Indo-Aryan languages
Indo-Aryan languages are a major branch of the Indo-European family spoken primarily in the Indian subcontinent, including languages such as Hindi, Bengali, Punjabi, and Marathi.
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C.
Indo-Iranian languages
Indo-Iranian languages are a major branch of the Indo-European language family that includes numerous related languages spoken across Iran, Afghanistan, the Indian subcontinent, and surrounding regions.
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D.
North Dravidian languages
The North Dravidian languages are a small, geographically northern branch of the Dravidian language family spoken mainly in eastern and central India, including languages such as Kurukh and Malto.
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E.
Middle Indo-Aryan
Middle Indo-Aryan is the group of Indo-Aryan languages and dialects, including Prakrits and Pali, that represent the intermediate historical stage between Old Indo-Aryan (Vedic and Classical Sanskrit) and the modern Indo-Aryan languages.
- 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: Eastern Indo-Aryan languages Target entity description: Eastern Indo-Aryan languages are a branch of the Indo-Aryan language family spoken mainly in eastern India, Bangladesh, and Nepal, including major languages such as Bengali, Assamese, and Odia.
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A.
Northwestern Indo-Aryan languages
Northwestern Indo-Aryan languages are a subgroup of the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family spoken primarily in northwestern parts of the Indian subcontinent, including languages such as Sindhi, Punjabi, and Lahnda.
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B.
Indo-Aryan languages
Indo-Aryan languages are a major branch of the Indo-European family spoken primarily in the Indian subcontinent, including languages such as Hindi, Bengali, Punjabi, and Marathi.
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C.
Indo-Iranian languages
Indo-Iranian languages are a major branch of the Indo-European language family that includes numerous related languages spoken across Iran, Afghanistan, the Indian subcontinent, and surrounding regions.
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D.
North Dravidian languages
The North Dravidian languages are a small, geographically northern branch of the Dravidian language family spoken mainly in eastern and central India, including languages such as Kurukh and Malto.
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E.
Middle Indo-Aryan
Middle Indo-Aryan is the group of Indo-Aryan languages and dialects, including Prakrits and Pali, that represent the intermediate historical stage between Old Indo-Aryan (Vedic and Classical Sanskrit) and the modern Indo-Aryan languages.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (61)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Indo-Aryan languages subgroup
ⓘ
language branch ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution |
Assam
ⓘ
surface form:
Assam region
Bengal ⓘ
surface form:
Bengal region
Orissa ⓘ
surface form:
Odisha region
Terai ⓘ
surface form:
Terai region of Nepal
eastern Indo-Gangetic plain ⓘ Indo-Gangetic Plain ⓘ
surface form:
lower Gangetic plain
|
| hasMajorLanguage |
Angika language
ⓘ
Assamese ⓘ
surface form:
Assamese language
Bengali ⓘ
surface form:
Bengali language
Bhojpuri ⓘ
surface form:
Bhojpuri language
Bishnupriya Manipuri language ⓘ Brajavali language ⓘ Chhattisgarhi ⓘ
surface form:
Chhattisgarhi language
Chittagonian language ⓘ Chambeali language ⓘ
surface form:
Kamta language
Khortha language ⓘ Kurmali language ⓘ Magahi language ⓘ Maithili ⓘ
surface form:
Maithili language
Odia ⓘ
surface form:
Odia language
Rajbanshi language ⓘ Rohingya language ⓘ Sadanic languages ⓘ Sadri language ⓘ Simalungun Bengali-based creoles ⓘ Surjapuri language ⓘ Sylheti language ⓘ |
| hasStandardLanguage |
Assamese
ⓘ
surface form:
Standard Assamese
Standard Bengali ⓘ Standard Odia ⓘ |
| historicalOrigin |
Apabhramsha
ⓘ
surface form:
Eastern Apabhraṃśa
Magadhi Prakrit ⓘ
surface form:
Magadhan Prakrit
|
| linguisticFeature |
SOV basic word order
ⓘ
complex verbal agreement systems ⓘ postpositional phrase structure ⓘ rich case-marking in many languages ⓘ split-ergativity in some languages ⓘ |
| partOf | Indo-Aryan languages ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
People's Republic of Bangladesh (from East Pakistan)
ⓘ
surface form:
Bangladesh
Bhutan ⓘ India ⓘ Nepal ⓘ Pakistan ⓘ eastern India ⓘ northeastern India ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Indo-Aryan languages
ⓘ
Indo-European language family ⓘ
surface form:
Indo-European languages
Indo-Iranian languages ⓘ |
| usedAsOfficialLanguageIn |
People's Republic of Bangladesh (from East Pakistan)
ⓘ
surface form:
Bangladesh
Assam ⓘ
surface form:
Indian state of Assam
Bihar ⓘ
surface form:
Indian state of Bihar
Indian state of Chhattisgarh ⓘ Indian state of Jharkhand ⓘ Indian state of Odisha ⓘ West Bengal ⓘ
surface form:
Indian state of West Bengal
|
| writingSystem |
Bengali–Assamese script
ⓘ
Devanagari script ⓘ Latin alphabet ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
Odia 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: Eastern Indo-Aryan languages Description of subject: Eastern Indo-Aryan languages are a branch of the Indo-Aryan language family spoken mainly in eastern India, Bangladesh, and Nepal, including major languages such as Bengali, Assamese, and Odia.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Eastern Indo-Aryan
this entity surface form:
Eastern Indo-Aryan
this entity surface form:
Eastern Indo-Aryan
this entity surface form:
Eastern Indo-Aryan subgroup