Tariana language
E166233
The Tariana language is an endangered Arawakan language spoken in the northwest Amazon region of Brazil, known for its complex verbal morphology and extensive system of evidentiality.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tariana language canonical | 5 |
| Kinikinau language | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1357275 — 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: Tariana language Context triple: [Arawakan languages, hasLanguage, Tariana language]
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A.
Kapingamarangi language
The Kapingamarangi language is a Polynesian outlier language spoken primarily on Kapingamarangi Atoll in the Federated States of Micronesia.
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B.
Motu language
Motu is an Austronesian language of Papua New Guinea, traditionally spoken around the Port Moresby area and known for its role in regional trade and communication.
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C.
Vella Lavella language
The Vella Lavella language is an Oceanic language spoken by the indigenous population of Vella Lavella Island in the Western Province of the Solomon Islands.
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D.
Lelemi language
The Lelemi language is a Niger-Congo language spoken primarily by the Lelemi people in eastern Ghana.
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E.
Rarámuri language
The Rarámuri language is an indigenous Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Tarahumara (Rarámuri) people of northern Mexico.
- 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: Tariana language Target entity description: The Tariana language is an endangered Arawakan language spoken in the northwest Amazon region of Brazil, known for its complex verbal morphology and extensive system of evidentiality.
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A.
Kapingamarangi language
The Kapingamarangi language is a Polynesian outlier language spoken primarily on Kapingamarangi Atoll in the Federated States of Micronesia.
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B.
Lamaholot language
The Lamaholot language is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in eastern Flores and nearby islands in Indonesia, known for its numerous dialects and complex verbal morphology.
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C.
Motu language
Motu is an Austronesian language of Papua New Guinea, traditionally spoken around the Port Moresby area and known for its role in regional trade and communication.
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D.
Vella Lavella language
The Vella Lavella language is an Oceanic language spoken by the indigenous population of Vella Lavella Island in the Western Province of the Solomon Islands.
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E.
Lelemi language
The Lelemi language is a Niger-Congo language spoken primarily by the Lelemi people in eastern Ghana.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Arawakan language
ⓘ
endangered language ⓘ indigenous language of the Americas ⓘ |
| alignment | nominative-accusative ⓘ |
| alternativeName | Tariano ⓘ |
| communityPractice | used in ritual and traditional contexts ⓘ |
| contactLanguage |
Baniwa language
ⓘ
Portuguese ⓘ |
| country | Brazil ⓘ |
| dominantContactLanguage | Tucano language ⓘ |
| endangermentStatus | severely endangered ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Tariana people ⓘ |
| evidentialCategories |
assumed evidential
ⓘ
inferred evidential ⓘ non-visual evidential ⓘ reported evidential ⓘ visual evidential ⓘ |
| evidentialityType | grammatical evidentiality ⓘ |
| feature |
classifier system
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complex verbal morphology ⓘ extensive evidentiality system ⓘ obligatory evidential marking in finite clauses ⓘ person and number agreement on verbs ⓘ switch-reference-like distinctions ⓘ tense-aspect-mood distinctions ⓘ |
| Glottocode | tari1258 ⓘ |
| grammarPublicationYear | 2003 ⓘ |
| hasBorrowingFrom |
Baniwa language
ⓘ
Portuguese language ⓘ
surface form:
Portuguese
Tucanoan languages ⓘ
surface form:
Tucano language
|
| hasCaseMarking | postpositions rather than case suffixes ⓘ |
| hasGrammarDescription | A Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive nasalization
ⓘ
tone or pitch-accent influenced by contact ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | tae ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Arawakan languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Arawakan language family
|
| languageStatus | subject of revitalization efforts ⓘ |
| linguisticArea | Vaupés linguistic area ⓘ |
| morphologicalType |
agglutinative language
ⓘ
polysynthetic language ⓘ |
| numberOfSpeakers | fewer than 200 speakers ⓘ |
| region |
Northwestern Amazonia
ⓘ
surface form:
Upper Rio Negro region
northwest Amazon ⓘ |
| researcher | Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Amazonas state
ⓘ
surface form:
Amazonas state, Brazil
|
| subfamily |
Arawakan languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Northern Arawakan
|
| transmission | largely not transmitted to children ⓘ |
| wordOrder | SOV-dominant ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
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: Tariana language Description of subject: The Tariana language is an endangered Arawakan language spoken in the northwest Amazon region of Brazil, known for its complex verbal morphology and extensive system of evidentiality.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Kinikinau language