Nama language
E414989
Nama language is a Khoe (Khoisan) language of southern Africa, primarily spoken by the Nama people in Namibia and neighboring regions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nama language canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4126780 — 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: Nama language Context triple: [Nama people, language, Nama language]
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A.
Nafe (Nguna) language
The Nafe (Nguna) language is an Oceanic Austronesian language spoken on Nguna Island and nearby areas in central Vanuatu.
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B.
Nembe language
The Nembe language is an Ijoid language spoken primarily by the Nembe people in Bayelsa State in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region.
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C.
Anyin language
The Anyin language is a Niger-Congo language spoken primarily in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana by the Anyin people, closely related to Baoulé and other Central Tano languages.
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D.
Naoero language
The Naoero language is an Austronesian language spoken by the indigenous population of the Pacific island nation of Nauru.
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E.
Uma language
Uma is an Austronesian language of the Celebic subgroup spoken primarily in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.
- 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: Nama language Target entity description: Nama language is a Khoe (Khoisan) language of southern Africa, primarily spoken by the Nama people in Namibia and neighboring regions.
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A.
Nafe (Nguna) language
The Nafe (Nguna) language is an Oceanic Austronesian language spoken on Nguna Island and nearby areas in central Vanuatu.
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B.
Nembe language
The Nembe language is an Ijoid language spoken primarily by the Nembe people in Bayelsa State in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region.
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C.
Anyin language
The Anyin language is a Niger-Congo language spoken primarily in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana by the Anyin people, closely related to Baoulé and other Central Tano languages.
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D.
Naoero language
The Naoero language is an Austronesian language spoken by the indigenous population of the Pacific island nation of Nauru.
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E.
Uma language
Uma is an Austronesian language of the Celebic subgroup spoken primarily in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Khoe language
ⓘ
Khoisan language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| alternateName |
Khoekhoe
ⓘ
linked to:
Khoisan languages
Khoekhoegowab ⓘ
linked to:
Khoikhoi language
Nama-Damara ⓘ
linked to:
Damara-Nama
|
| closelyRelatedTo |
Haiǁom language
ⓘ
Khoekhoe varieties of South Africa ⓘ ǂĀkhoe language ⓘ |
| country |
Botswana
ⓘ
Namibia ⓘ South Africa ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| family |
Khoe–Kwadi
ⓘ
linked to:
Khoe-Kwadi
|
| glottocode | nama1264 ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Bondelswarts dialect
ⓘ
Central Nama ⓘ
linked to:
Namaqua
Great Namaqualand dialects ⓘ Southern Nama ⓘ
linked to:
Namaqua
Topnaar dialect ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
click consonants
ⓘ
complex verb morphology ⓘ gender distinctions ⓘ number distinctions ⓘ rich pronominal system ⓘ subject–object–verb word order (SOV) ⓘ tone ⓘ |
| hasOrthography | standardized Latin-based orthography ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length
ⓘ
four basic click types ⓘ phonemic tone ⓘ |
| isSpokenBy |
Damara people
ⓘ
Nama people ⓘ |
| isSpokenIn |
Angola (border areas)
ⓘ
linked to:
Namibia–Angola border
Botswana ⓘ Namibia ⓘ Northern Cape Province ⓘ
linked to:
Northern Cape
South Africa ⓘ |
| languageCodeISO639-2 | naq ⓘ |
| languageCodeISO639-3 | naq ⓘ |
| primaryEthnicGroup | Nama people ⓘ |
| region |
southern Africa
ⓘ
linked to:
Southern Africa
|
| statusInNamibia | national language ⓘ |
| subfamilyOf | Khoe ⓘ |
| usedAs | lingua franca in parts of Namibia ⓘ |
| usedIn |
education (early primary in some areas)
ⓘ
radio broadcasting in Namibia ⓘ religious practice among Nama communities ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin script
ⓘ
linked to:
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: Nama language Description of subject: Nama language is a Khoe (Khoisan) language of southern Africa, primarily spoken by the Nama people in Namibia and neighboring regions.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.