Gorgani language

E771659

Iranian language Northwestern Iranian language extinct language

The Gorgani language is an extinct Northwestern Iranian language once spoken around the city of Gorgan near the southeastern coast of the Caspian Sea.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
Gorgani language canonical	1

Statements (30)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Iranian language ⓘ Northwestern Iranian language ⓘ extinct language ⓘ
attestedIn	lexical glosses and toponyms ⓘ medieval Persian sources ⓘ
closeTo	Gilaki language NERFINISHED ⓘ Mazanderani language NERFINISHED ⓘ other Caspian languages ⓘ
country	Iran ⓘ
documentationStatus	poorly attested ⓘ
extinction	medieval period (approximate) ⓘ
geographicRelation	near southeastern coast of the Caspian Sea ⓘ
glottologCode	gorg1234 (Gorgani) NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasLinguisticFeature	Iranian lexicon ⓘ Northwestern Iranian phonological traits ⓘ
hasType	regional language ⓘ
ISO639-3	none ⓘ
languageFamily	Northwestern Iranian ⓘ
namedAfter	Gorgan NERFINISHED ⓘ
partOf	Caspian language area ⓘ
reconstructedFrom	historical linguistic comparison ⓘ
region	Gorgan NERFINISHED ⓘ southeastern coast of the Caspian Sea ⓘ
spokenIn	Gorgan region NERFINISHED ⓘ
status	extinct ⓘ
subfamilyOf	Indo-European languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Indo-Iranian languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Iranian languages NERFINISHED ⓘ
usedUntil	before widespread dominance of New Persian in the region ⓘ
writingSystem	Persian alphabet (reconstructed/attested in Persian-script sources) ⓘ

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: Gorgani language
Description of subject: The Gorgani language is an extinct Northwestern Iranian language once spoken around the city of Gorgan near the southeastern coast of the Caspian Sea.

Referenced by (1)

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

Caspian languages → hasMemberLanguage → Gorgani language ⓘ