Yidgha language
E522472
The Yidgha language is an Eastern Iranian language spoken in parts of northeastern Afghanistan, closely related to Munji and noted for preserving archaic features within the Pamir language group.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Munji-Yidgha | 1 |
| Yidgha language canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5488733 — 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: Yidgha language Context triple: [Pamir languages, hasMember, Yidgha language]
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A.
Udi language
The Udi language is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken by the Udi people, primarily in Azerbaijan and neighboring regions, and is notable for preserving features of the ancient Caucasian Albanian language.
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B.
Negidal language
The Negidal language is a critically endangered Tungusic language traditionally spoken by the Negidal people in the Russian Far East along the lower Amur River.
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C.
Ghomara language
The Ghomara language is a lesser-known Berber language spoken by the Ghomara people in northern Morocco.
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D.
Bagirmi language
The Bagirmi language is a Central Sudanic language spoken primarily in Chad by the Bagirmi people, known for its role as a regional lingua franca and its rich oral tradition.
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E.
Khwarshi language
The Khwarshi language is a Northeast Caucasian (Nakh-Daghestanian) language spoken by a small ethnic group in Dagestan, Russia, known for its complex phonology and rich case system.
- 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: Yidgha language Target entity description: The Yidgha language is an Eastern Iranian language spoken in parts of northeastern Afghanistan, closely related to Munji and noted for preserving archaic features within the Pamir language group.
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A.
Udi language
The Udi language is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken by the Udi people, primarily in Azerbaijan and neighboring regions, and is notable for preserving features of the ancient Caucasian Albanian language.
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B.
Negidal language
The Negidal language is a critically endangered Tungusic language traditionally spoken by the Negidal people in the Russian Far East along the lower Amur River.
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C.
Ghomara language
The Ghomara language is a lesser-known Berber language spoken by the Ghomara people in northern Morocco.
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D.
Bagirmi language
The Bagirmi language is a Central Sudanic language spoken primarily in Chad by the Bagirmi people, known for its role as a regional lingua franca and its rich oral tradition.
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E.
Khwarshi language
The Khwarshi language is a Northeast Caucasian (Nakh-Daghestanian) language spoken by a small ethnic group in Dagestan, Russia, known for its complex phonology and rich case system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Eastern Iranian language
ⓘ
Pamir language ⓘ natural language ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo | Munji language ⓘ |
| country | Afghanistan ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | endangered language ⓘ |
| family | Indo-European languages ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Yidgha
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Yidghah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasClassification | Eastern Iranian Pamir language ⓘ |
| hasContactWith |
Dari Persian
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Pashto language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDocumentationStatus | under-documented language ⓘ |
| hasDomainOfUse |
home and local community
ⓘ
oral tradition ⓘ |
| hasFeature | preserves archaic features within the Pamir language group ⓘ |
| hasGeneticRelation | Indo-European language family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalRelation | Old Iranian languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticArea | Pamir region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticResearch | studies in Pamir linguistics ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticTypology | SOV word order ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalFeature |
agglutinative tendencies
ⓘ
rich case system ⓘ |
| hasNeighborLanguage |
Munji language
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Shughni language NERFINISHED ⓘ Wakhi language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature | retroflex consonants ⓘ |
| hasPreservationStatus | limited intergenerational transmission ⓘ |
| hasSpeakerCommunity | Yidgha people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isMinorityLanguageIn | Afghanistan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| iso639-3Code | ydg ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Pamir language continuum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Eastern Iranian ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Indo-European language family
ⓘ
surface form:
Indo-European
Indo-Iranian NERFINISHED ⓘ Iranian ⓘ |
| region | northeastern Afghanistan ⓘ |
| scriptType | Perso-Arabic script ⓘ |
| sharesIsoglossWith | Munji language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Afghanistan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Badakhshan region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subbranch | Eastern Iranian languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subfamily |
Indo-Iranian languages
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Iranian languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subgroup | Pamir languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Arabic 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: Yidgha language Description of subject: The Yidgha language is an Eastern Iranian language spoken in parts of northeastern Afghanistan, closely related to Munji and noted for preserving archaic features within the Pamir language group.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Munji-Yidgha