Caspian languages

E214827
Northwestern Iranian languages group of languages

Caspian languages are a group of closely related Northwestern Iranian languages spoken mainly along the southern coast of the Caspian Sea in northern Iran.

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All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Caspian languages canonical 4
Caspian linguistic area 2
Caspian language area 1

Statements (41)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Northwestern Iranian languages ⓘ
group of languages ⓘ
areClassifiedBy historical-comparative linguistics ⓘ
areCloselyRelatedTo each other ⓘ
areDistinguishedBy specific grammatical features ⓘ
specific lexical features ⓘ
specific phonological features ⓘ
areDistinguishedFrom Southwestern Iranian languages ⓘ
areEndangeredStatus some member languages are endangered ⓘ
arePartOf Northwestern branch of Western Iranian languages ⓘ
arePrimarilySpokenBy Iranian peoples ⓘ
surface form: Caspian Iranians

Gilak people ⓘ
Mazanderani people ⓘ
Talysh ⓘ
surface form: Talysh people

Tat people ⓘ
surface form: Tati people (Iran)
areSometimesGroupedWith other Northwestern Iranian dialect clusters ⓘ
areStudiedIn Iranian linguistics ⓘ
areWrittenIn Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
geographicDistribution southern Caspian Sea coast ⓘ
hasMemberLanguage Gilaki ⓘ
surface form: Gilaki language

Gorgani language ⓘ
Mazanderani language ⓘ
Sangisari language ⓘ
surface form: Sangiseri language

Semnani languages ⓘ
Talysh ⓘ
surface form: Talysh language

Tati language ⓘ
surface form: Tati language (Iran)
haveHistoricalContactWith Azerbaijani language ⓘ
Caucasian languages ⓘ
Persian language ⓘ
haveInfluenced local Persian dialects of northern Iran ⓘ
linguisticArea Caspian Sea region ⓘ
surface form: Caspian Sea littoral
spokenAlong southern coast of the Caspian Sea ⓘ
spokenIn Iran ⓘ
northern Iran ⓘ
spokenInRegion Gilan Province ⓘ
Golestan Province ⓘ
Mazandaran Province ⓘ
subclassOf Indo-European language family ⓘ
surface form: Indo-European languages

Indo-Iranian languages ⓘ
Iranian languages ⓘ
Western Iranian languages ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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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: Caspian languages
Description of subject: Caspian languages are a group of closely related Northwestern Iranian languages spoken mainly along the southern coast of the Caspian Sea in northern Iran.

Referenced by (9)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Northwestern Iranian languages → hasMajorSubgroup → Caspian languages ⓘ
Gilaki → languageFamily → Caspian languages ⓘ
Gilaki → linguisticArea → Caspian languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Caspian linguistic area
Semnani languages → relatedTo → Caspian languages ⓘ
Gilaks → linguisticSubgroup → Caspian languages ⓘ
Galeshi (Rudbari) dialect → hasAncestor → Caspian languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Caspian languages continuum
Galeshi (Rudbari) dialect → belongsTo → Caspian languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Caspian language area
Guilaki → linguisticArea → Caspian languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Caspian linguistic area
Mazanderani → partOf → Caspian languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Caspian language group