Zazaki
E41080
Zazaki is an Indo-Iranian language spoken primarily in eastern Turkey, often associated with the Zaza people and considered one of the main Kurdish-related dialects or languages.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Zazaki canonical | 16 |
| Northern Zazaki | 4 |
| Zazaki language | 4 |
| Central Zazaki | 1 |
| Southern Zazaki | 1 |
| Western Zazaki | 1 |
| Zazaki language continuum | 1 |
| Zazakîya Bakur | 1 |
| Zazakîya Rojava | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T312360 — 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: Zazaki Context triple: [Kurds, majorDialect, Zazaki]
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A.
Balochi
Balochi is an Iranian language spoken primarily by the Baloch people across Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan, with several dialects and a rich oral literary tradition.
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B.
Saraiki
Saraiki is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in central and southern Pakistan, especially in the southern Punjab region.
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C.
Pashto language
Pashto is an Eastern Iranian language spoken primarily in Afghanistan and Pakistan, serving as one of Afghanistan’s official languages and a key marker of Pashtun ethnic identity.
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D.
Kurmanji
Kurmanji is the most widely spoken dialect of the Kurdish language, used primarily by Kurds across Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran, and the diaspora.
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E.
Kurdish language
The Kurdish language is an Indo-Iranian language spoken by Kurds across parts of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria, and neighboring regions, with several major dialects and multiple writing systems.
- 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: Zazaki Target entity description: Zazaki is an Indo-Iranian language spoken primarily in eastern Turkey, often associated with the Zaza people and considered one of the main Kurdish-related dialects or languages.
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A.
Balochi
Balochi is an Iranian language spoken primarily by the Baloch people across Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan, with several dialects and a rich oral literary tradition.
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B.
Saraiki
Saraiki is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in central and southern Pakistan, especially in the southern Punjab region.
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C.
Pashto language
Pashto is an Eastern Iranian language spoken primarily in Afghanistan and Pakistan, serving as one of Afghanistan’s official languages and a key marker of Pashtun ethnic identity.
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D.
Kurmanji
Kurmanji is the most widely spoken dialect of the Kurdish language, used primarily by Kurds across Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran, and the diaspora.
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E.
Kurdish language
The Kurdish language is an Indo-Iranian language spoken by Kurds across parts of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria, and neighboring regions, with several major dialects and multiple writing systems.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Indo-Iranian language
ⓘ
Iranian language ⓘ Northwestern Iranian language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Gorani language
ⓘ
linked to:
Gorani
|
| hasAlternativeName |
Dimlî
ⓘ
Kirdkî ⓘ Zaza ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Central Zazaki
ⓘ
linked to:
Zazaki
Northern Zazaki ⓘ
linked to:
Zazaki
Southern Zazaki ⓘ
linked to:
Zazaki
|
| hasEndangermentStatus | vulnerable or endangered language ⓘ |
| hasEthnicAssociation | Zaza people ⓘ |
| hasGrammaticalFeature |
case system
ⓘ
ergative alignment (partially) ⓘ postpositions ⓘ rich verbal morphology ⓘ two grammatical genders ⓘ |
| hasMinorityLanguageStatusIn | Turkey ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature | vowel harmony (partial) ⓘ |
| hasScriptHistory |
Arabic script (historically)
ⓘ
Latin script (modern standard) ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | zza ⓘ |
| isSometimesClassifiedAs |
Kurdish dialect
ⓘ
separate language from Kurdish ⓘ |
| isSpokenNear | Kurdish-speaking regions ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Indo-European
ⓘ
linked to:
Indo-European language family
Indo-Iranian ⓘ
linked to:
Indo-Iranian languages
Iranian ⓘ Northwestern Iranian ⓘ |
| notMutuallyIntelligibleWith |
Kurmanji Kurdish (to a large extent)
ⓘ
Sorani Kurdish (to a large extent) ⓘ |
| partOf | Indo-European language family ⓘ |
| region |
Bingöl Province
ⓘ
Diyarbakır Province ⓘ
linked to:
Diyarbakır
Eastern Anatolia ⓘ
linked to:
eastern Turkey
Elazığ Province ⓘ Erzincan Province ⓘ Sivas Province ⓘ Tunceli Province ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Zaza people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Eastern Turkey
ⓘ
linked to:
eastern Turkey
Turkey ⓘ |
| subclassOf | Western Iranian language ⓘ |
| usedBy | Zaza diaspora communities in Europe ⓘ |
| usedIn |
local media in eastern Turkey
ⓘ
oral literature of Zaza people ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
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: Zazaki Description of subject: Zazaki is an Indo-Iranian language spoken primarily in eastern Turkey, often associated with the Zaza people and considered one of the main Kurdish-related dialects or languages.
Referenced by (30)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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linked to: Zazaki
linked to: Zazaki
linked to: Zazaki
linked to: Zazaki
linked to: Zazaki
linked to: Zazaki
subject linked to:
city of Tunceli