New Indo-Aryan languages
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New Indo-Aryan languages are the modern Indo-Aryan languages of South Asia, such as Hindi, Bengali, and Punjabi, that evolved from earlier stages of Indo-Aryan over the past millennium.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| New Indo-Aryan languages canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5488533 — 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: New Indo-Aryan languages Context triple: [Old Indo-Aryan, hasDescendant, New Indo-Aryan languages]
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A.
Eastern Indo-Aryan languages
Eastern Indo-Aryan languages are a branch of the Indo-Aryan language family spoken mainly in eastern India, Bangladesh, and Nepal, including major languages such as Bengali, Assamese, and Odia.
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B.
Northwestern Indo-Aryan languages
Northwestern Indo-Aryan languages are a subgroup of the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family spoken primarily in northwestern parts of the Indian subcontinent, including languages such as Sindhi, Punjabi, and Lahnda.
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C.
Northern Indo-Aryan languages
Northern Indo-Aryan languages are a subgroup of the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family spoken primarily in the northern regions of the Indian subcontinent, including languages such as Dogri, Kashmiri, and Punjabi.
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D.
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.
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E.
Southern Indo-Aryan languages
Southern Indo-Aryan languages are a subgroup of the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family, spoken primarily in western and central India and including varieties such as Marathi, Konkani, and related regional dialects.
- 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: New Indo-Aryan languages Target entity description: New Indo-Aryan languages are the modern Indo-Aryan languages of South Asia, such as Hindi, Bengali, and Punjabi, that evolved from earlier stages of Indo-Aryan over the past millennium.
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A.
Eastern Indo-Aryan languages
Eastern Indo-Aryan languages are a branch of the Indo-Aryan language family spoken mainly in eastern India, Bangladesh, and Nepal, including major languages such as Bengali, Assamese, and Odia.
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B.
Northwestern Indo-Aryan languages
Northwestern Indo-Aryan languages are a subgroup of the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family spoken primarily in northwestern parts of the Indian subcontinent, including languages such as Sindhi, Punjabi, and Lahnda.
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C.
Northern Indo-Aryan languages
Northern Indo-Aryan languages are a subgroup of the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family spoken primarily in the northern regions of the Indian subcontinent, including languages such as Dogri, Kashmiri, and Punjabi.
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D.
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.
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E.
Southern Indo-Aryan languages
Southern Indo-Aryan languages are a subgroup of the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family, spoken primarily in western and central India and including varieties such as Marathi, Konkani, and related regional dialects.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (81)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Indo-Aryan languages subgroup
ⓘ
branch of languages ⓘ |
| developedFrom |
Apabhraṃśa
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Middle Indo-Aryan languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Prakrit languages ⓘ Sanskrit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows |
Middle Indo-Aryan languages
ⓘ
Old Indo-Aryan languages ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution |
Indian subcontinent
ⓘ
South Asia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAncestor |
Proto-Indo-Aryan language
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Proto-Indo-European language NERFINISHED ⓘ Proto-Indo-Iranian language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
large number of speakers
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significant lexical borrowing from English ⓘ significant lexical borrowing from Persian and Arabic ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Assamese
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Awadhi NERFINISHED ⓘ Bagheli NERFINISHED ⓘ Bengali NERFINISHED ⓘ Bhili NERFINISHED ⓘ Bhojpuri NERFINISHED ⓘ Chhattisgarhi NERFINISHED ⓘ Chittagonian NERFINISHED ⓘ Dhivehi NERFINISHED ⓘ Dogri NERFINISHED ⓘ Domari ⓘ Garhwali ⓘ Gujarati NERFINISHED ⓘ Haryanvi NERFINISHED ⓘ Hindi NERFINISHED ⓘ Kashmiri NERFINISHED ⓘ Konkani NERFINISHED ⓘ Kumaoni ⓘ Kurux Hindi-Urdu dialect continuum ⓘ Lahnda NERFINISHED ⓘ Lomavren NERFINISHED ⓘ Magahi NERFINISHED ⓘ Maithili NERFINISHED ⓘ Marathi NERFINISHED ⓘ Marwari NERFINISHED ⓘ Nepali ⓘ Odia NERFINISHED ⓘ Oriya NERFINISHED ⓘ Punjabi NERFINISHED ⓘ Rajasthani NERFINISHED ⓘ Romani NERFINISHED ⓘ Saraiki NERFINISHED ⓘ Sindhi NERFINISHED ⓘ Sinhala NERFINISHED ⓘ Sylheti ⓘ Urdu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| linguisticTypology |
fusional morphology with analytic tendencies
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predominantly SOV word order ⓘ |
| partOf |
Indo-Aryan languages
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Indo-European languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Indo-Iranian languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sharesFeatureWith | Indo-Aryan languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Afghanistan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bangladesh NERFINISHED ⓘ India ⓘ Maldives NERFINISHED ⓘ Nepal NERFINISHED ⓘ Pakistan NERFINISHED ⓘ Sri Lanka NERFINISHED ⓘ diaspora communities worldwide ⓘ |
| subclassOf | modern Indo-Aryan languages ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
last millennium
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second millennium CE ⓘ |
| usedFor |
administration in South Asia
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education in South Asia ⓘ literature in South Asia ⓘ mass media in South Asia ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Bengali–Assamese script
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Devanagari NERFINISHED ⓘ Gujarati script NERFINISHED ⓘ Gurmukhi NERFINISHED ⓘ Gurmukhi script NERFINISHED ⓘ Perso-Arabic scripts ⓘ Sinhala script ⓘ Thaana script NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: New Indo-Aryan languages Description of subject: New Indo-Aryan languages are the modern Indo-Aryan languages of South Asia, such as Hindi, Bengali, and Punjabi, that evolved from earlier stages of Indo-Aryan over the past millennium.
Referenced by (4)
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