Saraiki
E14560
Saraiki is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in central and southern Pakistan, especially in the southern Punjab region.
All labels observed (12)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Saraiki canonical | 53 |
| Saraiki language | 11 |
| سرائیکی | 2 |
| Derawali dialect of Saraiki | 1 |
| Lahnda (Western Punjabi) | 1 |
| Lahnda languages | 1 |
| Multani Saraiki | 1 |
| Punjabi–Lahnda dialect continuum | 1 |
| Saraiki dialect continuum | 1 |
| Saraiki language area | 1 |
| Saraiki region | 1 |
| standard Saraiki | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T81937 — 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: Saraiki Context triple: [Pakistan, recognizedRegionalLanguage, Saraiki]
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A.
Sindhi
Sindhi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in Pakistan and India, known for its rich literary tradition and distinct script variants.
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B.
Balochi
Balochi is an Iranian language spoken primarily by the Baloch people across Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan, with several dialects and a rich oral literary tradition.
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C.
Urdu language
Urdu is a major South Asian language, written in a Perso-Arabic script and widely used in Pakistan and parts of India in literature, media, and everyday communication.
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D.
Pashto language
Pashto is an Eastern Iranian language spoken primarily in Afghanistan and Pakistan, serving as one of Afghanistan’s official languages and a key marker of Pashtun ethnic identity.
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E.
Punjabi language
Punjabi language is an Indo-Aryan language widely spoken in the Punjab region of India and Pakistan and among large diaspora communities worldwide.
- 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: Saraiki Target entity description: Saraiki is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in central and southern Pakistan, especially in the southern Punjab region.
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A.
Sindhi
Sindhi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in Pakistan and India, known for its rich literary tradition and distinct script variants.
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B.
Balochi
Balochi is an Iranian language spoken primarily by the Baloch people across Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan, with several dialects and a rich oral literary tradition.
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C.
Urdu language
Urdu is a major South Asian language, written in a Perso-Arabic script and widely used in Pakistan and parts of India in literature, media, and everyday communication.
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D.
Pashto language
Pashto is an Eastern Iranian language spoken primarily in Afghanistan and Pakistan, serving as one of Afghanistan’s official languages and a key marker of Pashtun ethnic identity.
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E.
Punjabi language
Punjabi language is an Indo-Aryan language widely spoken in the Punjab region of India and Pakistan and among large diaspora communities worldwide.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Indo-Aryan language
ⓘ
language ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Seraiki
ⓘ
surface form:
Lahnda
Punjabi language ⓘ
surface form:
Punjabi
Sindhi ⓘ |
| glottocode | sara1344 ⓘ |
| hasAlternateName |
Seraiki
ⓘ
Seraiki ⓘ
surface form:
Siraiki
|
| hasDialects |
Derawali
ⓘ
Jatki ⓘ Khetrani ⓘ Multani ⓘ Riasti ⓘ Thali ⓘ |
| hasEthnicGroup | Saraiki people ⓘ |
| hasLiterature |
Saraiki folk tales
ⓘ
Saraiki poetry ⓘ |
| hasNativeName |
Saraiki
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
سرائیکی
|
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
implosive consonants
ⓘ
tonal contrasts ⓘ |
| hasReligionContext | used in Islamic devotional poetry in Pakistan ⓘ |
| hasWritingStandard | Saraiki alphabet ⓘ |
| ISO639-2Code | skr ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | skr ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Indo-Aryan languages
ⓘ
Indo-European language family ⓘ
surface form:
Indo-European languages
Indo-Iranian languages ⓘ |
| primaryCountry | Pakistan ⓘ |
| region |
Indus Valley
ⓘ
South Asia ⓘ |
| scriptDirection | right-to-left ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Balochistan, Pakistan
ⓘ
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ⓘ
surface form:
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Pakistan ⓘ Punjab ⓘ
surface form:
Punjab, Pakistan
Sindh ⓘ
surface form:
Sindh, Pakistan
central Pakistan ⓘ southern Punjab, Pakistan ⓘ |
| subclassOf | Northwestern Indo-Aryan language ⓘ |
| usedAs |
literary language
ⓘ
vernacular language ⓘ |
| usedInEducation | regional language education in Pakistan ⓘ |
| usedInMedia |
radio broadcasting in Pakistan
ⓘ
television broadcasting in Pakistan ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Arabic alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Arabic script
Perso-Arabic script ⓘ Shahmukhi script ⓘ Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
surface form:
Sindhi-style Arabic 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: Saraiki Description of subject: Saraiki is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in central and southern Pakistan, especially in the southern Punjab region.
Referenced by (75)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Punjab (Pakistan)
this entity surface form:
Derawali dialect of Saraiki
this entity surface form:
Saraiki language area
this entity surface form:
Saraiki region
subject surface form:
Lahnda