Middle Indo-Aryan
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Middle Indo-Aryan is the group of Indo-Aryan languages and dialects, including Prakrits and Pali, that represent the intermediate historical stage between Old Indo-Aryan (Vedic and Classical Sanskrit) and the modern Indo-Aryan languages.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Middle Indo-Aryan canonical | 20 |
| Middle Indo-Aryan languages | 20 |
| Middle Indo-Aryan period | 9 |
| Early New Indo-Aryan | 1 |
| Middle Indic | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T318944 — 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: Middle Indo-Aryan Context triple: [Indo-Aryan languages, historicalStage, Middle Indo-Aryan]
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A.
Indo-Aryan languages
Indo-Aryan languages are a major branch of the Indo-European family spoken primarily in the Indian subcontinent, including languages such as Hindi, Bengali, Punjabi, and Marathi.
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B.
Indo-Iranian languages
Indo-Iranian languages are a major branch of the Indo-European language family that includes numerous related languages spoken across Iran, Afghanistan, the Indian subcontinent, and surrounding regions.
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C.
Magadhi Prakrit
Magadhi Prakrit is an ancient Middle Indo-Aryan language of eastern India that served as a major linguistic ancestor to several modern languages of the region, including Bengali.
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D.
Gandhari Prakrit
Gandhari Prakrit is an ancient Middle Indo-Aryan language of northwestern South Asia, known from Buddhist texts and inscriptions written in the Kharoṣṭhī script.
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E.
Sanskritized Prakrits
Sanskritized Prakrits are Middle Indo-Aryan vernacular languages or dialects that have been heavily influenced and refined by Sanskrit in their vocabulary, grammar, and literary style.
- 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: Middle Indo-Aryan Target entity description: Middle Indo-Aryan is the group of Indo-Aryan languages and dialects, including Prakrits and Pali, that represent the intermediate historical stage between Old Indo-Aryan (Vedic and Classical Sanskrit) and the modern Indo-Aryan languages.
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A.
Indo-Aryan languages
Indo-Aryan languages are a major branch of the Indo-European family spoken primarily in the Indian subcontinent, including languages such as Hindi, Bengali, Punjabi, and Marathi.
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B.
Indo-Iranian languages
Indo-Iranian languages are a major branch of the Indo-European language family that includes numerous related languages spoken across Iran, Afghanistan, the Indian subcontinent, and surrounding regions.
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C.
Magadhi Prakrit
Magadhi Prakrit is an ancient Middle Indo-Aryan language of eastern India that served as a major linguistic ancestor to several modern languages of the region, including Bengali.
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D.
Gandhari Prakrit
Gandhari Prakrit is an ancient Middle Indo-Aryan language of northwestern South Asia, known from Buddhist texts and inscriptions written in the Kharoṣṭhī script.
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E.
Sanskritized Prakrits
Sanskritized Prakrits are Middle Indo-Aryan vernacular languages or dialects that have been heavily influenced and refined by Sanskrit in their vocabulary, grammar, and literary style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical language stage
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language group ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Middle Indic
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linked to:
Middle Indo-Aryan
Middle Indo-Aryan languages ⓘ
linked to:
Middle Indo-Aryan
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| characteristic |
increased use of analytic constructions
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loss of certain Old Indo-Aryan verbal categories ⓘ merger of some Old Indo-Aryan vowels ⓘ phonological simplification of consonant clusters ⓘ reduction of Old Indo-Aryan case system ⓘ |
| developedFrom |
Classical Sanskrit
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linked to:
Sanskrit
Vedic Sanskrit ⓘ
linked to:
Sanskrit
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| developedInto |
Assamese
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Bengali ⓘ Gujarati ⓘ Hindi ⓘ Marathi ⓘ
linked to:
Marathi language
Odia ⓘ Punjabi ⓘ
linked to:
Punjabi language
Rajasthani ⓘ Sinhala ⓘ |
| follows | Old Indo-Aryan ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Apabhraṃśa
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linked to:
Apabhramsha
Ardhamagadhi Prakrit ⓘ Magadhi Prakrit ⓘ Maharashtri Prakrit ⓘ Paisaci ⓘ Pali ⓘ Prakrit languages ⓘ Shauraseni Prakrit ⓘ |
| linguisticStageBetween |
Modern Indo-Aryan languages
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Old Indo-Aryan ⓘ |
| notableLanguage |
Maharashtri Prakrit
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Pali ⓘ |
| precedes |
Modern Indo-Aryan languages
ⓘ
linked to:
Indo-Aryan languages
New Indo-Aryan ⓘ
linked to:
Indo-Aryan languages
|
| reconstructedFrom |
inscriptions
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literary texts ⓘ |
| region |
Indian subcontinent
ⓘ
linked to:
South Asia
South Asia ⓘ |
| studiedInDiscipline |
Indo-Aryan linguistics
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historical linguistics ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Indo-Aryan languages
ⓘ
Indo-European languages ⓘ
linked to:
Indo-European language family
Indo-Iranian languages ⓘ |
| timePeriod | circa 600 BCE to 1000 CE ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Buddhist literature
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Jain literature ⓘ early secular literature of India ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Brahmi script
ⓘ
Kharosthi script ⓘ
linked to:
Kharoṣṭhī 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: Middle Indo-Aryan Description of subject: Middle Indo-Aryan is the group of Indo-Aryan languages and dialects, including Prakrits and Pali, that represent the intermediate historical stage between Old Indo-Aryan (Vedic and Classical Sanskrit) and the modern Indo-Aryan languages.
Referenced by (51)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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ancient Vajji / Vaishali region
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