Southwestern Iranian languages
E23168
Southwestern Iranian languages are a branch of the Iranian language family that includes major languages such as Persian, Luri, and Tat, primarily spoken in Iran and surrounding regions.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Southwestern Iranian languages canonical | 18 |
| Middle Persian | 2 |
| Northern Luri | 2 |
| Luri Persian | 1 |
| Southern Luri | 1 |
| Tat language (Southwestern Iranian) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T176581 — 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: Southwestern Iranian languages Context triple: [Persian language, subfamily, Southwestern Iranian languages]
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A.
Iranian languages
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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B.
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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C.
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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D.
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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E.
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.
- 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: Southwestern Iranian languages Target entity description: Southwestern Iranian languages are a branch of the Iranian language family that includes major languages such as Persian, Luri, and Tat, primarily spoken in Iran and surrounding regions.
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A.
Iranian languages
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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B.
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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C.
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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D.
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (60)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
branch of Iranian languages
ⓘ
language group ⓘ |
| distinguishedBy |
development of voiced fricatives from Proto-Iranian stops
ⓘ
loss of certain Proto-Iranian consonant clusters ⓘ relatively simple nominal case system ⓘ |
| hasMajorLanguage |
Achomi language
ⓘ
Bakhtiari dialect ⓘ Bandari dialect ⓘ Bukharan Tajik ⓘ
linked to:
Tajiks
Bushehri dialect ⓘ Classical Persian language ⓘ Dari Persian ⓘ
linked to:
Persian language
Dezfuli dialect ⓘ Hamedani Persian ⓘ
linked to:
Persian language
Herati Persian ⓘ
linked to:
Persian language
Isfahani Persian ⓘ
linked to:
Persian language
Judeo-Persian language ⓘ Kabuli Persian ⓘ
linked to:
Persian language
Kermani Persian ⓘ
linked to:
Persian language
Khuzestani Persian ⓘ
linked to:
Persian language
Kumzari language ⓘ Luri language ⓘ Mashhadi Persian ⓘ
linked to:
Persian language
Middle Persian language ⓘ Northern Luri ⓘ
linked to:
Southwestern Iranian languages
Old Persian language ⓘ
linked to:
Old Persian
Persian language ⓘ Qazvini Persian ⓘ Shirazi Persian ⓘ
linked to:
Persian language
Shushtari dialect ⓘ Southern Luri ⓘ
linked to:
Southwestern Iranian languages
Tajik language ⓘ Talysh language ⓘ
linked to:
Talysh
Tat language ⓘ Tehrani Persian ⓘ
linked to:
Tehran dialect
Yazdi Persian ⓘ
linked to:
Persian language
|
| hasWritingSystem |
Arabic script
ⓘ
linked to:
Arabic alphabet
Cyrillic script ⓘ Latin script ⓘ Persian alphabet ⓘ
linked to:
Perso-Arabic script
|
| historicalCenter |
Achaemenid Empire
ⓘ
Persian Empire ⓘ
linked to:
Achaemenid Empire
Sasanian Empire ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Iranian languages ⓘ |
| linguisticAncestor |
Proto-Indo-European language
ⓘ
linked to:
Proto-Indo-European
Proto-Indo-Iranian language ⓘ Proto-Iranian language ⓘ |
| partOf |
Indo-European languages
ⓘ
linked to:
Indo-European language family
Indo-Iranian languages ⓘ Iranian languages ⓘ |
| primaryRegion |
Afghanistan
ⓘ
Azerbaijan ⓘ Iran ⓘ Iraq ⓘ Oman ⓘ Persian Gulf region ⓘ
linked to:
Persian Gulf
Tajikistan ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Western Iranian languages
ⓘ
linked to:
Northwestern Iranian languages
|
| usedAs |
administrative languages in various Iranian empires
ⓘ
literary languages in the Islamic Golden Age ⓘ |
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: Southwestern Iranian languages Description of subject: Southwestern Iranian languages are a branch of the Iranian language family that includes major languages such as Persian, Luri, and Tat, primarily spoken in Iran and surrounding regions.
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Southwestern Iranian languages
linked to: Southwestern Iranian languages
linked to: Southwestern Iranian languages
linked to: Southwestern Iranian languages
linked to: Southwestern Iranian languages
linked to: Southwestern Iranian languages
subject linked to:
Middle Persian language
linked to: Southwestern Iranian languages