Yidgha
E228136
Yidgha is an Eastern Iranian language spoken primarily in parts of northern Pakistan, closely related to the Munji language and noted for its conservative phonological features.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yidgha canonical | 7 |
| Munji–Yidgha | 1 |
| Yidga | 1 |
| Yidgha-viri | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2042480 — 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: Yidgha Context triple: [Eastern Iranian languages, hasMember, Yidgha]
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A.
Hazaragi
Hazaragi is a variety of Persian primarily spoken by the Hazara people of central Afghanistan and surrounding regions, distinguished by its unique phonology and significant Turkic and Mongolic influences.
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B.
Hidar
Hidar is the third month of the Ethiopian calendar, roughly corresponding to November in the Gregorian calendar.
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C.
Gardabani
Gardabani is a town in southeastern Georgia known for its role as an industrial and energy hub within the Kvemo Kartli region.
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D.
Ghomalaʼ
Ghomalaʼ is a Bantu language spoken primarily by the Bamileke people in western Cameroon.
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E.
Bisha
Bisha is a major inland city in southwestern Saudi Arabia known for its agricultural production and strategic location within the Asir region.
- 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: Yidgha Target entity description: Yidgha is an Eastern Iranian language spoken primarily in parts of northern Pakistan, closely related to the Munji language and noted for its conservative phonological features.
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A.
Hazaragi
Hazaragi is a variety of Persian primarily spoken by the Hazara people of central Afghanistan and surrounding regions, distinguished by its unique phonology and significant Turkic and Mongolic influences.
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B.
Hidar
Hidar is the third month of the Ethiopian calendar, roughly corresponding to November in the Gregorian calendar.
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C.
Gardabani
Gardabani is a town in southeastern Georgia known for its role as an industrial and energy hub within the Kvemo Kartli region.
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D.
Ghomalaʼ
Ghomalaʼ is a Bantu language spoken primarily by the Bamileke people in western Cameroon.
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E.
Bisha
Bisha is a major inland city in southwestern Saudi Arabia known for its agricultural production and strategic location within the Asir region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Eastern Iranian language
ⓘ
Indo-European language ⓘ Indo-Iranian language ⓘ Iranian language ⓘ |
| belongsToMacroArea |
Hindu Kush–Pamir region
ⓘ
surface form:
Hindukush–Pamir region
South Asia ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo | Munji language ⓘ |
| country | Pakistan ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | definitely endangered ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Yidgha
ⓘ
surface form:
Yidga
Yidgha ⓘ
surface form:
Yidgha-viri
Yudga ⓘ Yudgha ⓘ |
| hasApproximateSpeakers | several thousand ⓘ |
| hasContactLanguage |
Khowar
ⓘ
Pashto language ⓘ
surface form:
Pashto
Urdu language ⓘ
surface form:
Urdu
|
| hasGrammaticalCategory |
grammatical case present
ⓘ
grammatical gender absent ⓘ past vs non-past tense distinction ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
conservative phonology
ⓘ
retention of archaic Eastern Iranian features ⓘ |
| hasTypologicalFeature |
head-final syntax
ⓘ
postpositions instead of prepositions ⓘ |
| isMutuallyIntelligibleWith | Munji language ⓘ |
| iso639-3 | ydg ⓘ |
| languageBranch |
Yidgha
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Munji–Yidgha
|
| languageFamily | Iranian ⓘ |
| languageStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| linguisticFeature |
SOV basic word order
ⓘ
case marking on nouns ⓘ complex consonant system ⓘ contrastive vowel length ⓘ |
| morphologicalType |
fusional
ⓘ
suffixing ⓘ |
| neighboringLanguage |
Khowar
ⓘ
Pashto language ⓘ
surface form:
Pashto
Wakhi ⓘ |
| region | northern Pakistan ⓘ |
| researchedBy |
Georg Morgenstierne
ⓘ
K. C. R. Chaudhri ⓘ |
| scriptVariant | Perso-Arabic script ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Yidgha people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Chitral District
ⓘ
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ⓘ |
| subfamily | Eastern Iranian ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Arabic 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: Yidgha Description of subject: Yidgha is an Eastern Iranian language spoken primarily in parts of northern Pakistan, closely related to the Munji language and noted for its conservative phonological features.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Munji–Yidgha
this entity surface form:
Yidgha-viri
this entity surface form:
Yidga