Eastern Hindi languages
E206949
The Eastern Hindi languages are a subgroup of the Indo-Aryan language family spoken primarily in northern India and neighboring regions, encompassing varieties such as Awadhi, Bagheli, and Chhattisgarhi.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eastern Hindi | 4 |
| Eastern Hindi languages canonical | 1 |
| Eastern Hindi–Bhojpuri continuum | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1841169 — 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: Eastern Hindi languages Context triple: [Fiji Hindi, subgroupOf, Eastern Hindi languages]
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A.
Northern Indo-Aryan languages
Northern Indo-Aryan languages are a subgroup of the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family spoken primarily in the northern regions of the Indian subcontinent, including languages such as Dogri, Kashmiri, and Punjabi.
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B.
Northwestern Indo-Aryan languages
Northwestern Indo-Aryan languages are a subgroup of the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family spoken primarily in northwestern parts of the Indian subcontinent, including languages such as Sindhi, Punjabi, and Lahnda.
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C.
Eastern Indo-Aryan languages
Eastern Indo-Aryan languages are a branch of the Indo-Aryan language family spoken mainly in eastern India, Bangladesh, and Nepal, including major languages such as Bengali, Assamese, and Odia.
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D.
Central Dravidian languages
Central Dravidian languages are a subgroup of the Dravidian language family spoken primarily in central India, known for their shared phonological and grammatical features distinct from the northern and southern branches.
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E.
Khari Boli
Khari Boli is a major dialect of the Hindi-Urdu language continuum, historically associated with the Delhi region and serving as the primary basis for Standard Hindi.
- 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: Eastern Hindi languages Target entity description: The Eastern Hindi languages are a subgroup of the Indo-Aryan language family spoken primarily in northern India and neighboring regions, encompassing varieties such as Awadhi, Bagheli, and Chhattisgarhi.
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A.
Northern Indo-Aryan languages
Northern Indo-Aryan languages are a subgroup of the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family spoken primarily in the northern regions of the Indian subcontinent, including languages such as Dogri, Kashmiri, and Punjabi.
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B.
Northwestern Indo-Aryan languages
Northwestern Indo-Aryan languages are a subgroup of the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family spoken primarily in northwestern parts of the Indian subcontinent, including languages such as Sindhi, Punjabi, and Lahnda.
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C.
Eastern Indo-Aryan languages
Eastern Indo-Aryan languages are a branch of the Indo-Aryan language family spoken mainly in eastern India, Bangladesh, and Nepal, including major languages such as Bengali, Assamese, and Odia.
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D.
Central Dravidian languages
Central Dravidian languages are a subgroup of the Dravidian language family spoken primarily in central India, known for their shared phonological and grammatical features distinct from the northern and southern branches.
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E.
Khari Boli
Khari Boli is a major dialect of the Hindi-Urdu language continuum, historically associated with the Delhi region and serving as the primary basis for Standard Hindi.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Indo-Aryan languages subgroup
ⓘ
language subgroup ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Bihari languages
ⓘ
Western Hindi ⓘ
surface form:
Western Hindi languages
|
| geographicDistribution |
Indo-Gangetic Plain
ⓘ
surface form:
Gangetic plain
central Indian plateau ⓘ eastern Hindi belt ⓘ |
| hasMajorLanguage |
Awadhi
ⓘ
Bagheli ⓘ Chhattisgarhi ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Awadhi
ⓘ
Awadhi of Ayodhya region ⓘ Bagheli ⓘ Chhattisgarhi ⓘ Fiji Hindi ⓘ Khaltahi ⓘ Laria ⓘ Rewa Bagheli ⓘ Sadan ⓘ Surgujia ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive aspiration
ⓘ
retroflex consonants ⓘ |
| historicallyDerivedFrom | Shauraseni Prakrit ⓘ |
| historicallyInfluencedBy | Magadhi Prakrit ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Indo-Aryan
ⓘ
Indo-European language family ⓘ
surface form:
Indo-European
Indo-Iranian ⓘ |
| lexicalSimilarityWith |
Bhojpuri
ⓘ
Hindi ⓘ
surface form:
Standard Hindi
|
| partOf |
Indo-Aryan languages
ⓘ
Indo-European language family ⓘ
surface form:
Indo-European languages
Indo-Iranian languages ⓘ |
| sharesFeatureWith |
Hindi
ⓘ
surface form:
Standard Hindi
|
| spokenIn |
Bihar
ⓘ
Chhattisgarh ⓘ India ⓘ Uttar Pradesh ⓘ central India ⓘ eastern Madhya Pradesh ⓘ neighboring regions of India ⓘ northern India ⓘ |
| subclassOf | Central Indo-Aryan languages ⓘ |
| typologicalFeature |
SOV word order
ⓘ
postpositional syntax ⓘ split ergativity based on aspect ⓘ |
| usedFor |
folk songs and oral traditions
ⓘ
oral communication ⓘ regional literature ⓘ |
| usesScript |
Devanagari script
ⓘ
surface form:
Devanagari
|
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: Eastern Hindi languages Description of subject: The Eastern Hindi languages are a subgroup of the Indo-Aryan language family spoken primarily in northern India and neighboring regions, encompassing varieties such as Awadhi, Bagheli, and Chhattisgarhi.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Eastern Hindi–Bhojpuri continuum
this entity surface form:
Eastern Hindi
this entity surface form:
Eastern Hindi
this entity surface form:
Eastern Hindi
this entity surface form:
Eastern Hindi