Iranian languages
E22084
Iranian languages are a branch of the Indo-Iranian family of Indo-European languages, historically spoken across Iran, Central Asia, and surrounding regions, including major languages such as Persian (Farsi), Pashto, and Kurdish.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Iranian languages canonical | 158 |
| Iranian | 5 |
| Old Persian | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T176286 — 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: Iranian languages Context triple: [Tocharian languages, lexicalBorrowingFrom, Iranian languages]
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A.
Persian language
Persian language is a major modern Iranian language spoken primarily in Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan, known for its rich literary tradition and historical influence across the Middle East and Central Asia.
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B.
Judeo-Persian
Judeo-Persian is a group of Persian dialects historically spoken and written by Jewish communities in Iran, typically using the Hebrew script and incorporating Hebrew and Aramaic elements.
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C.
Semitic languages
Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family that includes historically and culturally significant languages such as Hebrew, Arabic, and Aramaic, spoken across the Middle East and parts of Africa.
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D.
Nuristani languages
Nuristani languages are a small, distinct group of Indo-Iranian languages spoken primarily in the remote Nuristan region of eastern Afghanistan.
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E.
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.
- 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: Iranian languages Target entity description: Iranian languages are a branch of the Indo-Iranian family of Indo-European languages, historically spoken across Iran, Central Asia, and surrounding regions, including major languages such as Persian (Farsi), Pashto, and Kurdish.
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A.
Persian language
Persian language is a major modern Iranian language spoken primarily in Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan, known for its rich literary tradition and historical influence across the Middle East and Central Asia.
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B.
Judeo-Persian
Judeo-Persian is a group of Persian dialects historically spoken and written by Jewish communities in Iran, typically using the Hebrew script and incorporating Hebrew and Aramaic elements.
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C.
Semitic languages
Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family that includes historically and culturally significant languages such as Hebrew, Arabic, and Aramaic, spoken across the Middle East and parts of Africa.
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D.
Nuristani languages
Nuristani languages are a small, distinct group of Indo-Iranian languages spoken primarily in the remote Nuristan region of eastern Afghanistan.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (85)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
branch of Indo-European languages
ⓘ
branch of Indo-Iranian languages ⓘ |
| ancestor |
Proto-Indo-European language
ⓘ
Proto-Indo-Iranian language ⓘ Proto-Iranian language ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution |
Afghanistan
ⓘ
Caucasus ⓘ Central Asia ⓘ India ⓘ Iran ⓘ Iraq ⓘ Pakistan ⓘ Eastern Arabia ⓘ
surface form:
Persian Gulf region
Syria ⓘ Tajikistan ⓘ Turkey ⓘ |
| hasBranch |
Eastern Iranian languages
ⓘ
Eastern Iranian languages ⓘ
surface form:
Northeastern Iranian languages
Northwestern Iranian languages ⓘ
surface form:
Northern Western Iranian languages
Southeastern Iranian languages ⓘ Southern Western Iranian languages ⓘ Western Iranian languages ⓘ |
| hasISO639FamilyCode | ira ⓘ |
| hasMajorLanguage |
Avestan language
ⓘ
Balochi ⓘ
surface form:
Balochi language
Persian language ⓘ
surface form:
Dari Persian
Eastern Iranian languages ⓘ
surface form:
Eastern Persian
Gilaki ⓘ
surface form:
Gilaki language
Gorani ⓘ
surface form:
Gorani language
Hazaragi dialect ⓘ Kurdish Kurmanji dialect ⓘ Kurdish Sorani dialect ⓘ Kurdish languages ⓘ Luri language ⓘ Mazanderani language ⓘ Middle Persian language ⓘ Old Persian language ⓘ Ossetian language ⓘ Pamir languages ⓘ Parthian language ⓘ Pashto language ⓘ Persian language ⓘ Saka languages ⓘ Alanic language ⓘ
surface form:
Sarmatian language
Ossetian language ⓘ
surface form:
Scythian languages
Sogdians ⓘ
surface form:
Sogdian language
Tajik language ⓘ Talysh ⓘ
surface form:
Talysh language
Tat language ⓘ
surface form:
Tat language (Iranian)
Wakhi ⓘ
surface form:
Wakhi language
Western Persian ⓘ Pamir languages ⓘ
surface form:
Yaghnobi language
Zazaki ⓘ
surface form:
Zazaki language
|
| hasOfficialStatusIn |
Afghanistan
ⓘ
Iran ⓘ Iraq ⓘ
surface form:
Iraq (regional)
Pakistan (provincial) ⓘ Tajikistan ⓘ |
| hasStage |
Middle Iranian languages
ⓘ
New Iranian languages ⓘ Old Iranian languages ⓘ |
| historicalRegion |
Bactria
ⓘ
Greater Iran ⓘ Scythia ⓘ Sogdia ⓘ |
| linguisticFeature |
SOV basic word order
ⓘ
development of postpositions from earlier case endings ⓘ extensive use of suffixes ⓘ rich system of consonants ⓘ split ergativity in some Eastern Iranian languages ⓘ use of ezafe construction in many Western Iranian languages ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Indo-Aryan languages
ⓘ
Nuristani languages ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Indo-European language family
ⓘ
surface form:
Indo-European languages
Indo-Iranian languages ⓘ |
| usedInReligion |
Islam
ⓘ
Manichaeism ⓘ Zoroastrianism ⓘ |
| writingSystemUsed |
Arabic script
ⓘ
Avestan script ⓘ Cyrillic script ⓘ Latin script ⓘ Old Persian cuneiform ⓘ Avestan script ⓘ
surface form:
Pahlavi scripts
Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
surface form:
Persian alphabet
|
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: Iranian languages Description of subject: Iranian languages are a branch of the Indo-Iranian family of Indo-European languages, historically spoken across Iran, Central Asia, and surrounding regions, including major languages such as Persian (Farsi), Pashto, and Kurdish.
Referenced by (164)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Iranian
subject surface form:
Middle Persian
this entity surface form:
Iranian