Assamese
E72240
Assamese is an Eastern Indo-Aryan language primarily spoken in the Indian state of Assam and recognized as one of the official languages of India.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Assamese canonical | 186 |
| Assamese language | 31 |
| Assamese literature | 2 |
| Central Assamese | 1 |
| Eastern Assamese | 1 |
| Goalpariya Assamese | 1 |
| Kamrupi Assamese | 1 |
| Standard Assamese | 1 |
| Western Assamese | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T576233 — 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: Assamese Context triple: [Google Translate, availableLanguage, Assamese]
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A.
Bengali
Bengali is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in the Bengal region of South Asia and serving as the official and most widely used language of Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal.
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B.
Assamese people
Assamese people are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group primarily inhabiting the Indian state of Assam, known for their Assamese language, rich literary and musical traditions, and distinctive cultural practices shaped by diverse indigenous and migrant influences.
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C.
Santhali
Santhali is an Austroasiatic language spoken primarily by the Santal people in eastern India, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Bhutan.
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D.
Bhojpuri
Bhojpuri is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in eastern Uttar Pradesh, western Bihar, and parts of Nepal, with a rich folk culture and a large diaspora community.
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E.
Odia
Odia is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in the Indian state of Odisha, known for its rich literary tradition and classical language status.
- 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: Assamese Target entity description: Assamese is an Eastern Indo-Aryan language primarily spoken in the Indian state of Assam and recognized as one of the official languages of India.
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A.
Bengali
Bengali is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in the Bengal region of South Asia and serving as the official and most widely used language of Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal.
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B.
Assamese people
Assamese people are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group primarily inhabiting the Indian state of Assam, known for their Assamese language, rich literary and musical traditions, and distinctive cultural practices shaped by diverse indigenous and migrant influences.
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C.
Santhali
Santhali is an Austroasiatic language spoken primarily by the Santal people in eastern India, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Bhutan.
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D.
Bhojpuri
Bhojpuri is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in eastern Uttar Pradesh, western Bihar, and parts of Nepal, with a rich folk culture and a large diaspora community.
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E.
Odia
Odia is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in the Indian state of Odisha, known for its rich literary tradition and classical language status.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (67)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Eastern Indo-Aryan language
ⓘ
Indo-Aryan language ⓘ modern Indo-Aryan language ⓘ |
| ancestor |
Kamarupi Prakrit
ⓘ
linked to:
Magadhi Prakrit
Magadhi Prakrit ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Bengali
ⓘ
Maithili ⓘ Odia ⓘ |
| country | India ⓘ |
| developedFrom |
Middle Indo-Aryan
ⓘ
Old Indo-Aryan ⓘ |
| glottocode | assa1263 ⓘ |
| hasDialects |
Central Assamese
ⓘ
linked to:
Assamese
Eastern Assamese ⓘ
linked to:
Assamese
Goalpariya Assamese ⓘ
linked to:
Assamese
Kamrupi Assamese ⓘ
linked to:
Assamese
Standard Assamese ⓘ Western Assamese ⓘ
linked to:
Assamese
|
| hasLexicalInfluenceFrom |
Arabic
ⓘ
English ⓘ Persian ⓘ
linked to:
Persian language
Sanskrit ⓘ Tibeto-Burman languages ⓘ |
| hasLiteraryTraditionSince | "at least 13th century" ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalFeature |
SOV word order
ⓘ
case markers ⓘ postpositions ⓘ rich verbal inflection ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive aspiration
ⓘ
retroflex consonants ⓘ voiceless and voiced stops ⓘ vowel length not phonemic ⓘ |
| hasScriptVariant |
Old Assamese script
ⓘ
modern Assamese script ⓘ |
| ISO639-1Code | as ⓘ |
| ISO639-2Code | asm ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | asm ⓘ |
| languageCodeInIndiaConstitution | Eighth Schedule language ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Indo-Aryan
ⓘ
Indo-European ⓘ
linked to:
Indo-European language family
Indo-Iranian ⓘ
linked to:
Indo-Iranian languages
|
| nativeSpeakersApprox | "15 million" ⓘ |
| officialLanguageOf |
Assam
ⓘ
India ⓘ |
| primaryRegion | Assam ⓘ |
| recognizedIn | Eighth Schedule of the Constitution of India ⓘ |
| recognizedMinorityLanguageIn |
Bangladesh
ⓘ
Bhutan ⓘ |
| region |
Arunachal Pradesh
ⓘ
Bangladesh ⓘ Bhutan ⓘ Meghalaya ⓘ Nagaland ⓘ Northeast India ⓘ West Bengal ⓘ |
| regulatingBody | Asam Sahitya Sabha ⓘ |
| scriptType | abugida ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Eastern Indo-Aryan languages
ⓘ
Indo-Aryan languages ⓘ Indo-European languages ⓘ
linked to:
Indo-European language family
|
| totalSpeakersApprox | "20–25 million" ⓘ |
| usedAs |
language of regional media in Assam
ⓘ
language of state administration in Assam ⓘ medium of instruction in Assam ⓘ |
| writingDirection | left-to-right ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Assamese script
ⓘ
Eastern Nagari 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: Assamese Description of subject: Assamese is an Eastern Indo-Aryan language primarily spoken in the Indian state of Assam and recognized as one of the official languages of India.
Referenced by (225)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Assamese
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linked to: Assamese
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linked to: Assamese
linked to: Assamese
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linked to: Assamese
linked to: Assamese
linked to: Assamese
subject linked to:
NER
linked to: Assamese
linked to: Assamese
linked to: Assamese