Jahai language
E788135
The Jahai language is an indigenous Mon–Khmer language spoken by the Jahai people, a small hunter-gatherer community in the Malay Peninsula.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jahai language canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9192177 — 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: Jahai language Context triple: [Aslian languages, hasMemberLanguage, Jahai language]
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A.
Parji language
The Parji language is a lesser-known Dravidian language spoken primarily by tribal communities in central India, particularly in parts of Chhattisgarh and Odisha.
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B.
Jarai language
The Jarai language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Jarai people of Vietnam’s Central Highlands and neighboring Cambodia.
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C.
Kharia language
Kharia language is a Munda language spoken primarily by the Kharia people in eastern India, especially in the states of Jharkhand, Odisha, and Chhattisgarh.
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D.
Ahanta language
The Ahanta language is a Niger-Congo language spoken by the Ahanta people along the coastal region of southwestern Ghana.
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E.
Tyap language
Tyap language is a Plateau language of the Niger-Congo family spoken predominantly by the Atyap people in southern Kaduna State, Nigeria.
- 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: Jahai language Target entity description: The Jahai language is an indigenous Mon–Khmer language spoken by the Jahai people, a small hunter-gatherer community in the Malay Peninsula.
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A.
Parji language
The Parji language is a lesser-known Dravidian language spoken primarily by tribal communities in central India, particularly in parts of Chhattisgarh and Odisha.
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B.
Jarai language
The Jarai language is an Austronesian language spoken by the Jarai people of Vietnam’s Central Highlands and neighboring Cambodia.
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C.
Kharia language
Kharia language is a Munda language spoken primarily by the Kharia people in eastern India, especially in the states of Jharkhand, Odisha, and Chhattisgarh.
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D.
Ahanta language
The Ahanta language is a Niger-Congo language spoken by the Ahanta people along the coastal region of southwestern Ghana.
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E.
Tyap language
Tyap language is a Plateau language of the Niger-Congo family spoken predominantly by the Atyap people in southern Kaduna State, Nigeria.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austroasiatic language
ⓘ
indigenous language ⓘ |
| approximateSpeakers | a few hundred ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Malaysia ⓘ |
| culturalRole | primary marker of Jahai ethnic identity ⓘ |
| endangermentStatus | endangered ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jahai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| glottocode | jaha1244 ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Jahaé
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jehai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
complex phonology typical of Aslian languages
ⓘ
oral language with limited written tradition ⓘ rich system of basic smell terms ⓘ |
| isMinorityLanguageIn | Malaysia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | jhi ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Northern Aslian languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isRelatedTo |
Batek language
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kensiu language NERFINISHED ⓘ Menriq language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Austroasiatic ⓘ |
| macroArea | Southeast Asia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region |
Kelantan (Malaysia)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Perak (Malaysia) NERFINISHED ⓘ northern Peninsular Malaysia ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Jahai people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Malay Peninsula
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Malaysia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subfamily | Aslian ⓘ |
| subgroup | Northern Aslian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| threatenedBy | language shift to Malay ⓘ |
| usedBy | hunter-gatherer communities ⓘ |
| usedIn |
oral storytelling of the Jahai people
ⓘ
traditional rituals of the Jahai people ⓘ |
| wordOrder | SVO ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin 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: Jahai language Description of subject: The Jahai language is an indigenous Mon–Khmer language spoken by the Jahai people, a small hunter-gatherer community in the Malay Peninsula.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.