Western Iranian languages
E220473
Western Iranian languages are a major branch of the Iranian language family that includes groups such as Northwestern and Southwestern Iranian languages, spoken historically and currently across much of Iran and surrounding regions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Western Iranian languages canonical | 31 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1918569 — 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: Western Iranian languages Context triple: [Northwestern Iranian languages, partOf, Western Iranian languages]
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A.
Eastern Iranian languages
Eastern Iranian languages are a subgroup of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian language family, comprising languages such as Pashto and Ossetian spoken mainly in eastern Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and parts of Central Asia and the Caucasus.
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B.
Northwestern Iranian languages
Northwestern Iranian languages are a subgroup of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian language family, encompassing several related languages spoken primarily in western Iran, the Caucasus, and surrounding regions.
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C.
Southeastern Iranian languages
Southeastern Iranian languages are a subgroup of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian language family, historically spoken in eastern Iran and surrounding regions and including languages such as Pashto and Ossetian.
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D.
Southwestern Iranian languages
Southwestern Iranian languages are a branch of the Iranian language family that includes major languages such as Persian, Luri, and Tat, primarily spoken in Iran and surrounding regions.
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E.
Middle Iranian languages
Middle Iranian languages are the historically intermediate stage of the Iranian branch of Indo-Iranian, spoken roughly between the 4th century BCE and the 9th century CE and including languages such as Middle Persian, Parthian, and Sogdian.
- 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: Western Iranian languages Target entity description: Western Iranian languages are a major branch of the Iranian language family that includes groups such as Northwestern and Southwestern Iranian languages, spoken historically and currently across much of Iran and surrounding regions.
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A.
Eastern Iranian languages
Eastern Iranian languages are a subgroup of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian language family, comprising languages such as Pashto and Ossetian spoken mainly in eastern Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and parts of Central Asia and the Caucasus.
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B.
Northwestern Iranian languages
Northwestern Iranian languages are a subgroup of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian language family, encompassing several related languages spoken primarily in western Iran, the Caucasus, and surrounding regions.
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C.
Southeastern Iranian languages
Southeastern Iranian languages are a subgroup of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian language family, historically spoken in eastern Iran and surrounding regions and including languages such as Pashto and Ossetian.
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D.
Southwestern Iranian languages
Southwestern Iranian languages are a branch of the Iranian language family that includes major languages such as Persian, Luri, and Tat, primarily spoken in Iran and surrounding regions.
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E.
Middle Iranian languages
Middle Iranian languages are the historically intermediate stage of the Iranian branch of Indo-Iranian, spoken roughly between the 4th century BCE and the 9th century CE and including languages such as Middle Persian, Parthian, and Sogdian.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (78)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
branch of Iranian languages
ⓘ
group of Indo-Iranian languages ⓘ |
| characterizedBy |
development of voiced fricatives
ⓘ
lenition of intervocalic stops ⓘ loss of certain final consonants ⓘ |
| distinguishedFrom | Eastern Iranian languages ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution |
Caspian Sea littoral
ⓘ
central Iran ⓘ
surface form:
Central Iran
Mesopotamia ⓘ western Iran ⓘ
surface form:
Western Iran
Zagros Mountains ⓘ |
| hasAncestor |
Proto-Indo-European
ⓘ
surface form:
Proto-Indo-European language
Proto-Indo-Iranian language ⓘ Proto-Iranian language ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalSubdivision |
Median language
ⓘ
Middle Persian language ⓘ
surface form:
Middle Persian
Old Median ⓘ Old Persian ⓘ Parthian language ⓘ |
| hasMajorLanguage |
Balochi
ⓘ
Gilaki ⓘ Kurdish ⓘ Luri ⓘ Mazanderani ⓘ Persian language ⓘ
surface form:
Persian
Talysh ⓘ |
| hasSubdivision |
Bakhtiari dialects
ⓘ
Balochi ⓘ
surface form:
Balochi language
Balochi ⓘ
surface form:
Balochi language group
Caspian languages ⓘ Central Plateau Iranian languages ⓘ Persian language ⓘ
surface form:
Dari Persian
Gilaki ⓘ
surface form:
Gilaki language
Gorani ⓘ
surface form:
Gorani language
Gorani ⓘ
surface form:
Gorani–Zaza languages
Hawrami dialects ⓘ Judeo-Persian ⓘ
surface form:
Judeo-Persian dialects
Kermanic languages ⓘ Kumzari language ⓘ Kurdic languages ⓘ Kurdish language ⓘ
surface form:
Kurdish languages
Kurmanji ⓘ
surface form:
Kurmanji Kurdish
Laki language ⓘ Luric languages ⓘ
surface form:
Luri languages
Luric languages ⓘ Mazanderani language ⓘ Northwestern Iranian languages ⓘ Persian language ⓘ
surface form:
Persian language continuum
Persid languages ⓘ Sangisari language ⓘ
surface form:
Sivandi language
Central Kurdish (Sorani) ⓘ
surface form:
Sorani Kurdish
Southern Kurdish ⓘ Southwestern Iranian languages ⓘ Tajik language ⓘ Talysh ⓘ
surface form:
Talysh language
Tatic languages ⓘ Western Persian ⓘ Zazaki ⓘ
surface form:
Zazaki language
|
| hasWritingSystem |
Arabic script
ⓘ
Cyrillic script ⓘ Latin alphabet ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
surface form:
Persian alphabet
|
| partOf |
Indo-European language family
ⓘ
surface form:
Indo-European languages
Indo-Iranian languages ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Afghanistan
ⓘ
Azerbaijan ⓘ Caucasus region ⓘ Iran ⓘ Iraq ⓘ Pakistan ⓘ Eastern Arabia ⓘ
surface form:
Persian Gulf region
Syria ⓘ Turkey ⓘ Turkmenistan ⓘ |
| subclassOf | Iranian languages ⓘ |
| usedAs |
official language basis in Afghanistan via Dari
ⓘ
official language basis in Iran via Persian ⓘ official language basis in Tajikistan via Tajik ⓘ |
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: Western Iranian languages Description of subject: Western Iranian languages are a major branch of the Iranian language family that includes groups such as Northwestern and Southwestern Iranian languages, spoken historically and currently across much of Iran and surrounding regions.
Referenced by (31)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.