Great Basin linguistic area
E362274
The Great Basin linguistic area is a region of the western United States where prolonged contact among Indigenous languages has led to shared structural features and convergent linguistic traits.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Great Basin linguistic area canonical | 4 |
| Great Basin languages | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3494809 — 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: Great Basin linguistic area Context triple: [California linguistic area, distinctFrom, Great Basin linguistic area]
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A.
Cordilleran languages
Cordilleran languages are a subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken primarily in the mountainous Cordillera region of northern Luzon in the Philippines.
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B.
Southern Paiute language
Southern Paiute language is a Uto-Aztecan Indigenous language traditionally spoken by the Southern Paiute people of the southwestern United States, particularly in parts of Utah, Arizona, Nevada, and California.
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C.
Great Basin–Pacific watershed divide region
The Great Basin–Pacific watershed divide region is a hydrological boundary area in the western United States where drainage basins separate between internally draining Great Basin watersheds and those that flow outward to the Pacific Ocean.
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D.
Central Numic
Central Numic is a branch of the Numic subgroup of Uto-Aztecan languages, comprising several closely related Indigenous languages spoken in parts of the western United States.
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E.
Southern Numic
Southern Numic is a branch of the Numic group of Uto-Aztecan languages spoken in parts of 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: Great Basin linguistic area Target entity description: The Great Basin linguistic area is a region of the western United States where prolonged contact among Indigenous languages has led to shared structural features and convergent linguistic traits.
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A.
Cordilleran languages
Cordilleran languages are a subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken primarily in the mountainous Cordillera region of northern Luzon in the Philippines.
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B.
Southern Paiute language
Southern Paiute language is a Uto-Aztecan Indigenous language traditionally spoken by the Southern Paiute people of the southwestern United States, particularly in parts of Utah, Arizona, Nevada, and California.
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C.
Great Basin–Pacific watershed divide region
The Great Basin–Pacific watershed divide region is a hydrological boundary area in the western United States where drainage basins separate between internally draining Great Basin watersheds and those that flow outward to the Pacific Ocean.
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D.
Central Numic
Central Numic is a branch of the Numic subgroup of Uto-Aztecan languages, comprising several closely related Indigenous languages spoken in parts of the western United States.
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E.
Southern Numic
Southern Numic is a branch of the Numic group of Uto-Aztecan languages spoken in parts of the southwestern United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Sprachbund
ⓘ
linguistic area ⓘ |
| characterizedBy |
convergent linguistic traits
ⓘ
prolonged contact among Indigenous languages ⓘ shared structural features ⓘ |
| hasEthnicGroup |
Northern Paiute
ⓘ
surface form:
Northern Paiute people
Shoshone people ⓘ Southern Paiute people ⓘ Ute people ⓘ Washoe people ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
areal diffusion of grammatical features
ⓘ
convergence in morphosyntax ⓘ lexical borrowing among neighboring languages ⓘ shared syntactic patterns ⓘ similar phonological systems ⓘ |
| hasLanguage |
Bannock language
ⓘ
Comanche language ⓘ Gosiute dialect ⓘ
surface form:
Gosiute language
Northern Paiute language ⓘ Shoshoni language ⓘ Southern Paiute language ⓘ Ute language ⓘ Washo language ⓘ |
| hasLanguageFamily |
Numic languages
ⓘ
Penutian languages ⓘ Paiute languages ⓘ
surface form:
Shoshonean languages
Uto-Aztecan ⓘ
surface form:
Uto-Aztecan languages
Washo language family ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Nevada
ⓘ
eastern California ⓘ northwestern Arizona ⓘ southern Idaho ⓘ southern Oregon ⓘ western Utah ⓘ |
| hasProcess |
areal convergence
ⓘ
language contact ⓘ structural diffusion ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Great Basin
ⓘ
surface form:
Great Basin region
western United States ⓘ |
| overlapsWith |
Great Basin culture area
ⓘ
surface form:
Great Basin cultural area
|
| partOf |
Plateau linguistic area
ⓘ
surface form:
North American linguistic areas
|
| relatedTo |
California linguistic area
ⓘ
Plateau linguistic area ⓘ |
| studiedInField |
Native American linguistics
ⓘ
areal linguistics ⓘ |
| timeDepth |
historic period of Euro-American expansion
ⓘ
pre-contact period ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Great Basin linguistic area Description of subject: The Great Basin linguistic area is a region of the western United States where prolonged contact among Indigenous languages has led to shared structural features and convergent linguistic traits.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Great Basin languages