Khwarezmian
E230683
Khwarezmian is an extinct Eastern Iranian language once spoken in the historical region of Khwarezm, in what is now parts of Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Khwarezmian canonical | 4 |
| Khorezmian | 1 |
| Khwarazmian | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2042490 — 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.
Target entity: Khwarezmian Context triple: [Eastern Iranian languages, hasMember, Khwarezmian]
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A.
Samanid Empire
The Samanid Empire was a Persianate Sunni Muslim dynasty that ruled parts of Central Asia and Greater Khorasan in the 9th–10th centuries, playing a key role in the revival of Persian culture and literature under Islamic rule.
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B.
Kara-Khanid Khanate
The Kara-Khanid Khanate was a medieval Turkic Muslim dynasty that ruled parts of Central Asia, particularly Transoxiana and Kashgaria, between the 10th and 13th centuries.
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C.
Ghaznavid Empire
The Ghaznavid Empire was a medieval Persianate Muslim dynasty that ruled large parts of present-day Iran, Afghanistan, and the Indian subcontinent, known for its military campaigns into India and its patronage of Persian culture and literature.
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D.
Zengid dynasty
The Zengid dynasty was a 12th-century Muslim Turkic ruling house in Syria and northern Iraq, known for resisting the Crusader states and laying groundwork for the rise of Saladin and the Ayyubid dynasty.
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E.
Khanate of Bukhara
The Khanate of Bukhara was a Central Asian Muslim state centered on the historic city of Bukhara, known for its role as a major political, cultural, and commercial hub along the Silk Road from the 16th to the 19th centuries.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Khwarezmian Target entity description: Khwarezmian is an extinct Eastern Iranian language once spoken in the historical region of Khwarezm, in what is now parts of Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan.
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A.
Samanid Empire
The Samanid Empire was a Persianate Sunni Muslim dynasty that ruled parts of Central Asia and Greater Khorasan in the 9th–10th centuries, playing a key role in the revival of Persian culture and literature under Islamic rule.
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B.
Kara-Khanid Khanate
The Kara-Khanid Khanate was a medieval Turkic Muslim dynasty that ruled parts of Central Asia, particularly Transoxiana and Kashgaria, between the 10th and 13th centuries.
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C.
Ghaznavid Empire
The Ghaznavid Empire was a medieval Persianate Muslim dynasty that ruled large parts of present-day Iran, Afghanistan, and the Indian subcontinent, known for its military campaigns into India and its patronage of Persian culture and literature.
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D.
Zengid dynasty
The Zengid dynasty was a 12th-century Muslim Turkic ruling house in Syria and northern Iraq, known for resisting the Crusader states and laying groundwork for the rise of Saladin and the Ayyubid dynasty.
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E.
Khanate of Bukhara
The Khanate of Bukhara was a Central Asian Muslim state centered on the historic city of Bukhara, known for its role as a major political, cultural, and commercial hub along the Silk Road from the 16th to the 19th centuries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Eastern Iranian language
ⓘ
extinct language ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Chorasmian
ⓘ
Khwarezmian ⓘ
surface form:
Khorezmian
Khwarezmian ⓘ
surface form:
Khwarazmian
|
| documentedBy |
Al-Biruni
ⓘ
surface form:
al-Biruni
|
| documentedIn | Arabic-script manuscripts ⓘ |
| extinction | around 13th century ⓘ |
| glottocode | khwa1239 ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticFeature |
influenced by Middle Persian
ⓘ
shares features with Bactrian ⓘ shares features with Sogdian ⓘ |
| historicalRegion | Khwarezm ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | xwar ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Indo-Iranian languages ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Indo-European language family
ⓘ
surface form:
Indo-European languages
Iranian languages ⓘ |
| lexicalBorrowingFrom |
Arabic
ⓘ
Middle Persian language ⓘ
surface form:
Middle Persian
|
| linguisticArea | Central Asia ⓘ |
| linguisticStage | Middle Iranian language ⓘ |
| modernTerritory |
Turkmenistan
ⓘ
Uzbekistan ⓘ |
| morphologicalType | fusional ⓘ |
| neighboringLanguages |
Chorasmian Turkic
ⓘ
Sogdian language ⓘ
surface form:
Sogdian
|
| phonologicalType | consonant-rich ⓘ |
| predecessor | Old Iranian dialects of Khwarezm ⓘ |
| region | Khwarezm ⓘ |
| religiousContext |
Islamic
ⓘ
Zoroastrianism ⓘ
surface form:
Zoroastrian
|
| scriptType | abjad ⓘ |
| scriptUsagePeriod |
Islamic period
ⓘ
surface form:
Islamic period of Khwarezm
|
| spokenIn |
Khwarezm
ⓘ
surface form:
Khwarezm oasis
Amu Darya region ⓘ
surface form:
lower Amu Darya region
|
| status | extinct ⓘ |
| subfamily | Eastern Iranian languages ⓘ |
| successor | Khwarezmian Turkic languages ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
early Middle Ages
ⓘ
late antiquity ⓘ |
| usedIn |
administrative documents
ⓘ
legal documents ⓘ religious texts ⓘ |
| writingInfluence | Aramaic ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Arabic script
ⓘ
Aramaic-derived script ⓘ Perso-Arabic script ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Khwarezmian Description of subject: Khwarezmian is an extinct Eastern Iranian language once spoken in the historical region of Khwarezm, in what is now parts of Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.