Japrería language
E772721
The Japrería language is an indigenous Cariban language spoken by the Japrería people of Venezuela, closely associated with neighboring Yukpa communities.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Japrería language canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9011375 — 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: Japrería language Context triple: [Yukpa language, closelyRelatedTo, Japrería language]
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A.
Paraujano language
The Paraujano language is an indigenous Arawakan (Maipurean) language historically spoken by the Paraujano people of northwestern Venezuela, now critically endangered or nearly extinct.
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B.
Blablanga language
The Blablanga language is an Oceanic language spoken in the Solomon Islands, belonging to the Northwest Solomonic subgroup of the Austronesian language family.
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C.
Curripaco language
The Curripaco language is an Arawakan language spoken by the Curripaco people of the Northwest Amazon region in Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela.
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D.
Parji language
The Parji language is a lesser-known Dravidian language spoken primarily by tribal communities in central India, particularly in parts of Chhattisgarh and Odisha.
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E.
Piipaash language
The Piipaash language is a Native American language of the Yuman family traditionally spoken by the Piipaash (Maricopa) people of the lower Colorado River region in the southwestern United States.
- 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: Japrería language Target entity description: The Japrería language is an indigenous Cariban language spoken by the Japrería people of Venezuela, closely associated with neighboring Yukpa communities.
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A.
Paraujano language
The Paraujano language is an indigenous Arawakan (Maipurean) language historically spoken by the Paraujano people of northwestern Venezuela, now critically endangered or nearly extinct.
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B.
Blablanga language
The Blablanga language is an Oceanic language spoken in the Solomon Islands, belonging to the Northwest Solomonic subgroup of the Austronesian language family.
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C.
Curripaco language
The Curripaco language is an Arawakan language spoken by the Curripaco people of the Northwest Amazon region in Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela.
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D.
Parji language
The Parji language is a lesser-known Dravidian language spoken primarily by tribal communities in central India, particularly in parts of Chhattisgarh and Odisha.
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E.
Piipaash language
The Piipaash language is a Native American language of the Yuman family traditionally spoken by the Piipaash (Maricopa) people of the lower Colorado River region in the southwestern United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American indigenous language
ⓘ
Cariban language ⓘ indigenous language ⓘ |
| basicWordOrder | SOV ⓘ |
| belongsTo | indigenous languages of Venezuela ⓘ |
| closelyAssociatedWith |
Yukpa language
ⓘ
Yukpa people ⓘ |
| continent | South America ⓘ |
| country | Venezuela ⓘ |
| documentationStatus | poorly documented ⓘ |
| endangermentCause | language shift to Spanish ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Japrería people ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Hapreria
ⓘ
Haprería ⓘ Japreria ⓘ Yapreria ⓘ Yaprería ⓘ Yaprería Carib ⓘ |
| hasCode | Glottocode: japr1234 ⓘ |
| hasConsonantInventory | includes glottalized stops ⓘ |
| hasDomain | home and community use ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
noun classifiers (limited)
ⓘ
postpositions rather than prepositions ⓘ rich verbal morphology ⓘ |
| hasLimitedUseIn | formal education ⓘ |
| hasMorphology | agglutinative morphology ⓘ |
| hasPhylum | Macro-Cariban (proposed) ⓘ |
| hasResearchField | Cariban linguistics ⓘ |
| hasSpeakerCommunity | Japrería settlements in Sierra de Perijá ⓘ |
| hasVowelInventory | five-vowel system (a e i o u) ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | jru ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Cariban ⓘ |
| languageStatus | endangered language ⓘ |
| linguisticTypology | head-marking language ⓘ |
| majorContactLanguage | Spanish ⓘ |
| neighboringLanguage |
Wayuu language
ⓘ
Yukpa language ⓘ |
| region | Sierra de Perijá ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Japrería people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Venezuela
ⓘ
Zulia State ⓘ |
| subFamily |
Yukpa–Japrería
ⓘ
linked to:
Yukpa language
|
| UNESCOStatus | definitely endangered (approximate classification) ⓘ |
| usedIn |
ritual contexts
ⓘ
traditional oral narratives ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin script
ⓘ
linked to:
Latin alphabet
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How these facts were elicited
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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: Japrería language Description of subject: The Japrería language is an indigenous Cariban language spoken by the Japrería people of Venezuela, closely associated with neighboring Yukpa communities.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.